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Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies: Most of the movie was cloying. All of it was predictable. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: You would pretty much have to be sentimental to tolerate such schlock, or at least be willing to check your cynicism at the multiplex door. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The comparative savvy that Wolfe showed in HBO's stage-to-TV transfer of Lackawanna Blues has gone missing. Read more
Joshua Katzman, Chicago Reader: This romantic stinker is one of those films in which every plot development becomes a life lesson and every gesture is weighted with significance. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Richard Gere suffers less than Diane Lane. He gets by with a mixture of skill and self-irony. She acts up a storm in every scene, but you root for the hurricane. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: Cinematically unexciting but a welcome glimpse at the complications of life after age 40. Read more
Reyhan Harmanci, San Francisco Chronicle: The film tastefully yet unenergetically chugs along. Read more
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: There's nothing like a good tearjerker. Unfortunately, Nights in Rodanthe isn't a good tearjerker, although the characters on-screen shed tears and the movie is pretty jerky. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: About those Nights in Rodanthe: They're about as steamy as a cup of tea. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Even keepers of the Sparks flame are likely to have their spirits dampened by the wind-rattled, Diane Lane and Richard Gereencrusted adaptation of Nights in Rodanthe. Read more
Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: There are not enough actual scenes to keep us sufficiently engaged to care about the third-act event that changes their destiny. Read more
Tim Grierson, L.A. Weekly: This movie works so strenuously to satisfy its target audience's every desire that it's a minor surprise that the filmmakers didn't provide cashmere blankets, a snuggly pair of slippers and a warm cup of cocoa for everyone entering the theater. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: It's an increasingly rare pleasure to see two naturally aging adults onscreen, and it's not exactly hard work to watch this still-gorgeous pair fall in love. Especially if you're overdue for a little vacation from reality yourself. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Nights in Rodanthe aims straight for the tear ducts as well, but this weepie is a dry well. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: A classy tearjerker with butter-cream frosting, raised to the level of (maybe undeserved) artistry by the convincing sincerity and no-nonsense honesty of Diane Lane. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The movie version of Nights begins with such promise before it drowns in the romance novelist's syrupy sentimentality. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Rodanthe is a reliably steamy stormy sultry story about Inner Change at the Outer Banks where strangers become intimates. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: I can kind-of, sort-of see how this story might work as a novel. Bad dialogue doesn't sound as howlingly awful when not spoken aloud. Idiotic plot contrivances don't seem as painful and obvious. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie attempts to jerk tears with one clunky device after another, in a plot that is a perfect storm of cliche and contrivance. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: The movie around Lane and Gere is unreal, a tortured construct, but they open a breathing space in its center. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The story needs rage and poetry and red-blooded sensuality, and we get respectable stodginess. Read more
Susan Walker, Toronto Star: No character in this turbulent sea of love crashing on the shores of misfortune is any more developed than they are in Sparks' potboiler. Read more
Hank Sartin, Time Out: Nicholas Sparks's novels are to Harlequin romances as international coffees are to Nescafe: Marketed as having a little dash of class, they're still ersatz java. Read more
Trevor Johnston, Time Out: Broadway director George C Wolfe's inexperience with visual storytelling makes everything go with a clunk. Shame. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Though the stars are likable and attractive, the movie is a melodramatic and soppy affair. Read more
Brian Lowry, Variety: It's the sort of film, frankly, one either utterly succumbs to or stubbornly resists, and those opting for the former course shouldn't be disappointed. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: What really sells this three-hanky tear-jerker -- and there were a lot of women buying it during a recent screening -- is Lane's steely and vulnerable performance. Like Tinker Bell, she almost made me believe in fairies. Almost. Read more