CRITICAL CONSENSUS

Rob Blackwelder - SPLICEDwire

Kathy Cano Murillo - Arizona Republic

Kit Bowen - Hollywood.com

Peter Debruge - Miami Herald

Mike Clark - USA Today

James Berardinelli - ReelViews

Mark Caro - Chicago Tribune

Carrie Rickey - Philadelphia Inquirer

Mary F. Pols - Contra Costa Times

Pete Croatto - filmcritic.com

Sheri Linden - Hollywood Reporter

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie - AccessAtlanta

Ed Gonzalez - Slant Magazine

Stephen Holden - NY Times

Margaret A. McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer

DUELING CRITICS

"The writers deserve credit for this movie's lack of sap and deft balancing of light comedy and heavy themes...[Despite the outward appearance of cloying sentimentalism] the movie defeated my natural cynicism by being, well, natural"

- Rob Blackwelder

"One boring cup of vanilla pudding - sweet, bland and devoid of surprises...Actually, 'sweet' is not the word. 'Cloying' is more like it...A movie that is as glossy as it is forgettable"

- Margaret A. McGurk