CRITICAL CONSENSUS

Emily Blunt - Blunt Review

Colin Covert - startribune.com

Michael Wilmington - Chicago Tribune

Lou Lumenick - NY Post

James Berardinelli - ReelViews

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie - AccessAtlanta

Margaret A. McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer

William Arnold - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Phoebe Flowers - Sun-Sentinel.com

Stephen Holden - NY Times

Norm Schrager - filmcritic.com

Kit Bowen - Hollywood.com

Walter Chaw - Film Freak Central

Peter Travers - Rolling Stone

John Anderson - Newsday

DUELING CRITICS

"May just be the most romantic movie of our generation. It makes Titanic look like a Harlequin novel...not really but it's certainly more grounded -- pardon the pun. An incredibly touching, remarkably raw, rare film about true love -- and the power of that love"

- Emily Blunt

"The narcotic effects of The Notebook can be felt even before its opening scene has dissolved into bonbon music and gauzy light...Overwrought cliches and faux-climaxes [parade throughout] a very soggy movie"

- John Anderson