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38 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 35 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 35
  3. Negative: 11 out of 35
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  1. Charlotte Observer
    Reviewed by: Lawrence Toppman
    75
    (Ford and Thomas) give Random Hearts muscle when the story turns flabby, spine where it sags, wings where it threatens to stay earthbound.
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  2. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Cody Clark
    72
    There's a lot of satisfaction in seeing two stars given this much time and space to examine a complex relationship.
  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    63
    The fundamental problem is the point of view.
  4. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    63
    It's still strangely remote, only fitfully romantic, never really convincing.
  5. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    63
    Like a guy who finally gets what he wants, you just want to go home once it's over.
  6. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    63
    A-list soap opera, high-class and high-gloss.
  7. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Stephanie Zacharek
    60
    Marginally romantic and only the tiniest bit thrilling.
  8. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    50
    As clumsy as its title.
  9. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    50
    This ponderous romantic melodrama...passes like a day behind bars.
  10. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    50
    The cinematic equivalent of enduring a cross-country airplane flight trapped in a seat next to a manic depressive.
  11. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Desmond Ryan
    50
    Sorely needs the injection of skepticism - a quality that would have been even more useful when Pollack was mulling over doing Random Hearts in the first place.
  12. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    50
    Likely one-week box office wonder.
  13. Film.com
    Reviewed by: John Hartl
    50
    Not a conventional love story, and perhaps it's not a love story at all. After more than two hours, you're left wondering what it is.
  14. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    50
    The film's underlying concept is so irredeemably screwy and far-fetched that no amount of fine work can hope to make it convincing.
  15. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Janet Maslin
    50
    The film confines them to an affair that is the sexual equivalent of Easy Listening.
  16. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Paula Nechak
    42
    A sloppily scripted film that contains a silly and superfluous subplot about a crooked cop.
  17. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    40
    There's just no reason why it should take more than two hours for so little to happen.
  18. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    40
    Has spread itself so thin between plot, subplots and great scads of floppy pop-psych, it has nothing else to do but lie down and die of exhaustion.
  19. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    40
    Everyone in the film is a walking cliché.
  20. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Gregory Weinkauf
    40
    You'll get that $8 nap you've been craving.
  21. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Peter Brunette
    40
    Starts off brilliantly and then gradually -- actually, not so gradually -- peters out.
  22. Newsweek
    Reviewed by: David Ansen
    40
    An adult love story that's trying for stiff-upper-lip poignancy.
  23. Variety
    Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    40
    An ideal rainy day matinee attraction for well-to-do ladies of a certain age.
  24. TNT RoughCut
    Reviewed by: Christopher Brandon
    40
    It risks the believability factor for anyone who's ever been cheated on or lost a loved one.
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  25. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    30
    Even a search party would be hard-pressed to find a spark between Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas in Pollack's latest tear-jerker.
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  26. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Tom Keogh
    30
    What we have here is a small story in an oversized setting.
  27. Time
    Reviewed by: Richard Schickel
    30
    A grim and draggy romance in which even the clothes and sets are dismal.
  28. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Rita Kempley
    30
    Solemn, earnest and as laboriously paced as a fat Sicilian's funeral procession.
  29. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    30
    Humorless, lugubrious, and interminable.
  30. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Rene Rodriguez
    25
    Gives romance a bad name.
  31. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Edward Guthmann
    25
    Hollywood hit-making at its efficient, formulaic worst.
  32. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Ann Hornaday
    25
    Just another tepid entry into this year's Death-as-Turn-On Sweepstakes.
  33. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    25
    Might best be described as bereavement porn.
  34. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    20
    A moribund Harrison Ford vehicle, stodgily dull, and seemingly endless in its monotony.
  35. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Diana Abu-Jaber
    8
    Dissects the dicey question of fidelity with all the finesse of a Veg-O-Matic and leaves us with something closer to chopped liver than broken hearts.
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