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75A love story so sweet, sincere and positive that it sneaks past the defenses built up in this age of irony.
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75It's wholesome as a glass of milk, and as refreshing.
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A movie for teenagers, and, as these things go, very entertaining.
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67What saves the film is the chemistry between the two leads.
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60West delivers the emotional goods when tragedy strikes in the final reel. If 17-year-old pop star Moore isn't a skilled actress, she's at least unassuming.
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60A sensitively told story of first love that could have been more affecting with a little more grit and without so mawkish a score.
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60This realist fairy tale of impossible love has a fair amount of nuance and charm.
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50The film is well-scrubbed of anything resembling sexuality, more a nonthreatening fairy tale than the romantic drama it aims to be. Its appeal flies straight to the hearts of 13-year-old girls.
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50About as edgy as a cup of Ovaltine, A Walk to Remember is an old-fashioned teen romance so sweet and free of irony that criticizing it feels like taking a baseball bat to a sack full of newborn kittens.
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50There's nothing remotely memorable about this walk.
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50A glossy teen-weepie romance that often plays like an inspirational indie skewed toward Christian niche market.
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50Parents wishing to protect their beloved daughters from cliché overload might do well to withhold the old allowance money for a couple of weeks -- until the inevitable bout of Mandymoviemania subsides.
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38Goo oozes without mercy in A Walk to Remember.
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38A movie where the miracles -- and treacly moments -- keep topping each other.
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Since the movie has so little conviction, or personality of its own, it's a walk you can easily forget.
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For grownups, this treacle is going to be pretty hard to swallow.
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30A vehicle for teen singing sensation Mandy Moore. As vehicles go, it's an Edsel.
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30Basically a prim, desexualized "Carrie," told from the prom date's perspective and featuring Peter Coyote in the Piper Laurie role.
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30Proves that a movie about goodness is not the same thing as a good movie.
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30Audiences who have avoided the multiplex these last few years because of the garbage peddled there are the only ones for whom this overly familiar "Walk" will be memorable.
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25Good performances in bad movies are nothing new, but it's sad that Moore's first major cinematic outing scrapes the bottom of the melodramatic barrel.
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25The audience for this chaste teen romance won't be film lovers, as the movie is sappy and listlessly paced. But it's just the ticket for people who want their movies sanitized.
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25Self-respecting filmgoers will find this a "Walk" to dismember.
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25Just because A Walk to Remember is shrewd enough to activate girlish tear ducts doesn't mean it's good enough for our girls. They're willing to buy tickets; why not honor their wits as well as their wallets?
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11Takes the giant leap from your run-of-the-mill mediocrity into an alternative universe of awfulness.
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10A monstrosity of a movie that I am all too eager to forget.
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