| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Late in the picture, Sobieski has some line-readings that are so emotionally full, strange and truthful that really nothing more need be said.
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| 63 |
San Francisco Examiner
Any movie that opens with a Goo Goo Dolls song and ends with a line like "I'm going to live -- just not as long as you" is bound to leave somebody reaching for a Kleenex.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
Corny? You bet. But it also proves surprisingly inviting -- for a while, anyway.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Slides too easily into its sentimentality; the characters should have put up more of a struggle.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
The three actors do their best to breathe life into their caricatured roles.
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| 42 |
Entertainment Weekly
Love means never having to say you're recycling plot material.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
As for first-time feature director Mark Piznarski, he should be cited for excessive use of slow motion, sun-dappled trees and golden light; one more cliche violation and his license to direct would be forfeit.
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| 38 |
USA Today
Earth to Earth's young director, Mark Piznarksi : It's tough turning straw into gold, isn't it?
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| 38 |
New York Post
Hokey, inept tear-jerker.
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| 38 |
Mr. Showbiz
Offers little in the way of splendor in the grass.
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| 38 |
Boston Globe
Maudlin script mars teen love.
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| 38 |
Chicago Tribune
An almost terminally sappy youth romance.
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| 30 |
Los Angeles Times
Just the ticket for girls in their early teens.
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| 30 |
Film.com
Don't be surprised if you exit Here On Earth feeling both moved and incredulous.
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| 25 |
Baltimore Sun
Chris Hewitt
The script is drippy, humor-free and old-fashioned:
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| 25 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Nothing wrong with the syrupy romance Here on Earth that a megadose of insulin couldn't fix.
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| 20 |
Washington Post
A moldy teenage tear-jerker.
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| 20 |
The New York Times
Still never having to say you're sorry.
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| 20 |
Variety
Young teen girls will flock to pic in droves, dragging their boyfriends or other girlfriends.
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| 20 |
Film.com
So very general in its characters and story that it actively keeps you from enjoying the simple pleasures of a movie like this.
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| 10 |
Dallas Observer
It would be heartening if the adolescent girls of America turned their backs on this pandering piece of kitsch, but that would be hoping too much.
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| 10 |
Chicago Reader
Neither the love nor the loss in this tear-jerking romance contains much drama.
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| 0 |
Austin Chronicle
Somewhere along the road to becoming teens idols, these actors got confused between being the bomb -- and getting it.
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| 0 |
LA Weekly
Paul Cullum
Complete and utter horseshit.
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