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85Redgrave puts all she's got into something other actors might just toss off or throw away. She's present every moment; this is an actress who doesn't have a second to waste.
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83Redgrave shimmers like one of Tuscany's magnificent cypress trees as an Englishwoman searching for Lorenzo (Nero).
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75I know Letters to Juliet is a soppy melodrama, and I don't mind in the least. I know the ending is preordained from the setup. I know the characters are broad and comforting stereotypes. In this case, I simply don't care. Sometimes we have personal reasons for responding to a film.
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75She delivers a solid and easy star performance. Some young performers lack a relatable quality; Seyfried has it, even with those old-school, big-screen peepers.
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75It's also a case of art imitates life imitates art. If that makes it a tribute to a tribute to a classic, then it is no less enjoyable for that.
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75It is sweet and sentimental and embraces the fantasy (although it would have worked better without the treacly pop songs on the soundtrack).
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70It may not be a great film, but for moviegoers, Letters to Juliet is like that long buried missive of its title -- a hopeful sign that when we hold out for good things, our patience is sometimes rewarded.
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70I'd take any woman in my life, ages 10 to 100, to Letters to Juliet and my guess is we'd both leave with a little Italian glow.
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67Is Gary Winick atoning for his sins? If "Bride Wars" was an acid spill -- and that's putting it generously -- then Letters to Juliet is like the safety shower in your high school chemistry class, delivering an unsubtle blast of sanitized sentimentality.
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63Letters to Juliet will never be mistaken for an epic romance -- too light, too silly, too mistake-prone -- but the ingredients of its tasty chick-flick stew are tried and true.
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63It's a chick flick with a likable premise.
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60García Bernal's irrepressible charm provides a burst of welcome energy with each brief appearance.
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Put this title on your Netflix queue in the first place. Just give your own Mr. Right a break and don't waste your date-night dollars on the big screen.
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60An ode to romance of the most starry-eyed sort, a sugary paean to quixotic clichés and a film destined to be a guilty pleasure for some (me included, sigh) and the painful price of a relationship for others (so steel yourselves).
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50It's unapologetic schmaltz, deftly directed by Gary Winick (Tadpole) as if it really meant something.
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A squishy-soft romance set to bouncing Italian pop. It's like a long swallow from a bottle of a very sweet wine. Goes down easy, warms the gut, leaves a film of sugar on the teeth.
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50It has humor and a touch of charm, but plainly needed more love, more passion, more Shakespeare.
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50Letters to Juliet has about half as much Shakespearean content as "Shakes the Clown" and even less sincerity.
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50Letters to Juliet comes off as just another movie that makes you long for a trip to Northern Italy-but not with any of these people.
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50This movie believes that true love isn't supposed to be hard. A fine ideal, but it feels as flat as a pizza.
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50Letters to Juliet represents an interesting paradox: it is a movie that is very nearly perfect without being especially good.
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50Vanessa Redgrave bails out this mushy Italian-postcard romance.
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50If well done, a film like Letters To Juliet should need no surprises. But it does need more than the postcard-ready vistas against which director Gary Winick (13 Going On 30) frames much of the action.
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50A movie that has more sap than a pine forest.
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Bland, predictable picture, whose sole assets are a cute premise, the Italian countryside and the dignity Vanessa Redgrave brings to a part that, on the page, is quite beneath her.
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40More Oh Mama than Mamma Mia!
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From its opening montage of Hallmark-worthy kisses to a climactic clinch under the Tuscan sun, Letters to Juliet celebrates synthetic sentiment.
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Gary Winick's flat direction does the material no favors: If Egan and Seyfried have any chemistry, it's framed out of their awkwardly staged climactic kisses.
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40Jose Rivera and Tim Sullivan's script relentlessly piles on goopy conversation-stoppers like "Do you believe in destiny?" and "I didn't know that true love had an expiration date."
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38The larger problem is that the central duo is just plain dull.
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30(It doesn't hurt that Ms. Redgrave gets to play opposite Franco Nero, who was once the love of her life and is the father of her son.) Not even she can transform lines like "Destiny wanted us to meet again."
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25A witless ninny of a movie about Italy, romantic disillusion, Shakespeare, history, more Italy and getting to "yes" in love and intimacy.
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25A girl with relationship woes can hardly set foot in Europe these days without finding herself hip-deep in yummy food and tasty men. The latest iteration of the story is Letters to Juliet or, as I like to think of it, "Eat Pray Hurl."
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25Save yourself 10 bucks, and an hour and 45 minutes of your precious time.
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