The Washington Post – Ron Charles
…a romantic comedy wrapped around an academic satire that looks like the sprightly love child of Allegra Goodman and Jonathan Franzen…A master of voice, from the perfectly calibrated voyeurs of The Virgin Suicides to the bifurcated consciousness of Middlesex, Eugenides delivers The Marriage Plot as a sympathetic omniscient narrator who can move unobtrusively into these three lovers' minds, leaving just the faintest fingerprints of his light satire.