| 75 |
Charlotte Observer
(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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| 72 |
Mr. Showbiz
There's a lot of satisfaction in seeing two stars given this much time and space to examine a complex relationship.
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
It's still strangely remote, only fitfully romantic, never really convincing.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
A-list soap opera, high-class and high-gloss.
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| 63 |
San Francisco Examiner
Like a guy who finally gets what he wants, you just want to go home once it's over.
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| 63 |
Chicago Sun-Times
The fundamental problem is the point of view.
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| 60 |
Salon.com
Marginally romantic and only the tiniest bit thrilling.
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| 50 |
USA Today
Likely one-week box office wonder.
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| 50 |
New York Post
The cinematic equivalent of enduring a cross-country airplane flight trapped in a seat next to a manic depressive.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
Janet Maslin
The film confines them to an affair that is the sexual equivalent of Easy Listening.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
This ponderous romantic melodrama...passes like a day behind bars.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
As clumsy as its title.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
The film's underlying concept is so irredeemably screwy and far-fetched that no amount of fine work can hope to make it convincing.
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| 50 |
Film.com
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.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
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.
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| 42 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A sloppily scripted film that contains a silly and superfluous subplot about a crooked cop.
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| 40 |
TNT RoughCut
It risks the believability factor for anyone who's ever been cheated on or lost a loved one.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
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.
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| 40 |
Variety
An ideal rainy day matinee attraction for well-to-do ladies of a certain age.
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| 40 |
Village Voice
Everyone in the film is a walking cliché.
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| 40 |
Film.com
Starts off brilliantly and then gradually -- actually, not so gradually -- peters out.
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| 40 |
Dallas Observer
You'll get that $8 nap you've been craving.
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| 40 |
Newsweek
An adult love story that's trying for stiff-upper-lip poignancy.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
There's just no reason why it should take more than two hours for so little to happen.
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| 30 |
Film.com
What we have here is a small story in an oversized setting.
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| 30 |
Rolling Stone
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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| 30 |
Washington Post
Solemn, earnest and as laboriously paced as a fat Sicilian's funeral procession.
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| 30 |
Time
A grim and draggy romance in which even the clothes and sets are dismal.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
Humorless, lugubrious, and interminable.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Hollywood hit-making at its efficient, formulaic worst.
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| 25 |
Entertainment Weekly
Might best be described as bereavement porn.
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| 25 |
Baltimore Sun
Just another tepid entry into this year's Death-as-Turn-On Sweepstakes.
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
Gives romance a bad name.
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| 20 |
Austin Chronicle
A moribund Harrison Ford vehicle, stodgily dull, and seemingly endless in its monotony.
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| 8 |
Portland Oregonian
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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