Metascore
24 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 21 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 21
  2. Negative: 15 out of 21
  1. Works best of all as a vehicle for Richard Gere, who has simply never looked better or held the screen more securely.
  2. 63
    So laden with forced plot twists that it will never be able to recover.
  3. 50
    Ultra-glossy weepie turns out to be something of a guilty pleasure.
  4. Fails to be the histrionic bubble bath that you want to carry you away.
  5. 40
    Weepy, overwrought love story.
  6. Not only do they (Gere and Ryder) lack chemistry, they lack physics, zoology, botany and geology.
  7. Reviewed by: Loren King
    38
    It is all style and no substance.
  8. 34
    To say that it's dull barely scratches the surface.
  9. Flagrantly old-fashioned, triple-hankie tear-jerker.
  10. Reviewed by: Emanuel Levy
    30
    Not a bad picture, just utterly banal.
  11. Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    25
    Gere has never seemed more squirrelly.
  12. Near-unwatchable romantic melodrama.
  13. 20
    When it comes to real people living and loving in the real world, the studios don't have a clue.
  14. Reviewed by: Robert Horton
    20
    Spending an autumn in New York is the simple part, but the rest of the year gets more complicated. Let's see a movie about that.
  15. Reviewed by: Tom Keogh
    20
    There's a lost opportunity here.
  16. 20
    The inevitable isn't worth the wait.
  17. Reviewed by: Robert Dominguez
    12
    Manages to jerk more than a few tears at all the right moments.
  18. 10
    Who cares about old guys and young girls? This handsome romantic slop finds other problems.
  19. 10
    Not that much deep thinking went on here.