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63Although the film begins promisingly, it proves to be little more than a soap opera.
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More thoughtful than its cookie-cutter marketing campaign implies, and better than its awful title promises, "Love Happens" is the rare Hollywood romance concerned with emotions other than love at first sight.
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50An incredibly lazy movie -- but not an unbearable one, thanks to Aaron Eckhart's charm.
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50Love Happens announces itself as a romantic comedy but doesn't speak the language of love. Instead, it trades in the slogans of self-help procedural.
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50Delivers all the pain, melodrama and redemption that fans of the genre demand.
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50Love Happens is an oddly upbeat title for a movie that is surprisingly sad.
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50One of those sticky dramas.
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50Aniston's constituency will enjoy seeing her again in Love Happens . She's lovely and fun to be with, as always.
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50Eckhart has even less chemistry with Aniston than he did with fellow narcissist Catherine Zeta-Jones in 2007's "No Reservations," going soft and gooey only when he and Martin Sheen, as Burke's father-in-law, share a big cry.
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50The vital signs in Love Happens, a movie that feels likes a laboriously padded outline, are faint.
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50Excise the love story, and there's a pretty good movie buried within Love Happens struggling to get out, mostly to little avail.
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50The film contains almost no rough edges; thanks to decades of previous use, just about every shot and sequence is as polished as a riverbed stone.
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The title is a good indication of this movie's blandness and predictability.
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40If that's the best Hollywood screenwriters can do, maybe they should sign up for a self-help seminar. Nothing focuses the mind like a little firewalking.
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40Falls between romance and drama without really satisfying either.
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That this superficial romance between a successful self-help author and a nurturing florist is also a film about overcoming the tragedy of losing a loved one only makes its clichéd insipidity that much more irksome.
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38I wish the movie made emotional sense, because it's all about getting in touch with whatever's holding you back, but it doesn't.
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38Is this a movie or a feature-length advertisement for Qwest? We're not just talking one product placement; this brand name is nearly omnipresent.
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33Structurally, this is as by-the-numbers as rom-coms get, right down to the wacky best friends, played by Judy Greer and Dan Fogler. For a while, it's low-key enough to be tolerable.
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30Some may wonder why Jennifer Aniston keeps taking projects about single women unlucky in love. But the bigger question in Love Happens is why, with her pick of scripts, she chose one so utterly uninspired.
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30The dialogue is often grating, and some of the situations are distastefully cute, although John Carroll Lynch (Fargo) has a strong supporting turn as a grief workshop client.
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25It might sound intriguing to root the saying, "Physician, heal thyself," in the plight of a hypocritical self-help guru, but the romantic drama Love Happens suffers from acute irony deficiency.
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25No authentic emotion of any kind happens in this damp, Seattle-based romance, a fizzle for both stars.
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20Love Happens? It depends on your definition of "love." And "happens." There isn't much of either in this predictable, putzy drama.
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20It's a limp romantic drama that occasionally lifts its drowsy head to attempt a wan smile, a picture that starts out being harmlessly dull and ends, somehow, in a place that feels insultingly manipulative.
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12Love Happens is a weepie about the grieving process, mainly my own.
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