| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Works best of all as a vehicle for Richard Gere, who has simply never looked better or held the screen more securely.
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
So laden with forced plot twists that it will never be able to recover.
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| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly
Tastefully embarrassing.
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| 50 |
New York Post
Ultra-glossy weepie turns out to be something of a guilty pleasure.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
Fails to be the histrionic bubble bath that you want to carry you away.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
Weepy, overwrought love story.
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| 38 |
Boston Globe
Loren King
It is all style and no substance.
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| 38 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Not only do they (Gere and Ryder) lack chemistry, they lack physics, zoology, botany and geology.
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| 34 |
Mr. Showbiz
To say that it's dull barely scratches the surface.
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| 30 |
Variety
Not a bad picture, just utterly banal.
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| 30 |
The New York Times
Flagrantly old-fashioned, triple-hankie tear-jerker.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Turns into one long wallow.
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| 25 |
USA Today
Gere has never seemed more squirrelly.
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| 20 |
Austin Chronicle
Near-unwatchable romantic melodrama.
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| 20 |
Film.com
There's a lost opportunity here.
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| 20 |
Chicago Reader
The inevitable isn't worth the wait.
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| 20 |
Film.com
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.
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| 20 |
LA Weekly
When it comes to real people living and loving in the real world, the studios don't have a clue.
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| 12 |
New York Daily News
Robert Dominguez
Manages to jerk more than a few tears at all the right moments.
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| 10 |
Salon.com
Who cares about old guys and young girls? This handsome romantic slop finds other problems.
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| 10 |
Washington Post
Not that much deep thinking went on here.
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