| Original Score: C- | Feb 18, 2012

Call it a romantic comedy or romantic drama; you're still not going to giggle, your heart won't be warmed and ultimately, you'll leave unsatisfied.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 12, 2010

It's awful.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 24, 2010

Not content with being a romcom that's trite and shallow about love, it's gone one step further - it's trite and shallow about death, too.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 16, 2009

Both stars seem bemused in their parts and it is left to Martin Sheen and a pet parrot to emote. The parrot, in fact, is the best thing here.

Full Review | Oct 16, 2009

Falls between romance and drama without really satisfying either.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 9, 2009

The sorrowing widower is a great subject for film romance; but the point is to let the girl have a proper crack at cheering him up. And, as always with love, a GSOH would help.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 9, 2009

Everyone is trying to re-invent the rom-com at the moment and the makers of Love Happens are no exceptions. The formula they've come up with is to remove all the comedy, which is a bold choice.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 9, 2009

How can we, as a species, tolerate Jennifer Aniston with her blurry expression of emotional bravery?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 9, 2009

It's not a comedy. It certainly isn't funny.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 9, 2009

What a title. Not that this crybaby romantic drama deserves much better.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 9, 2009

Love Happens is watchable if you're sentimentally inclined but its identity crisis is hard to ignore.

| Oct 9, 2009

I will hold up my hands and admit I find Jen pleasant enough to watch, even at the worst of times. But this film IS the worst of times. And even diehard romance fans will find their patience challenged by the end credits.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 9, 2009

| Original Score: C | Oct 2, 2009

Love isn't inspired, it's hammered flat like Khrushchev's shoe.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 27, 2009

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 25, 2009

Hang in there Jen. You can do better.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 18, 2009

Other stuff happens too, all of it strained and dull.

| Original Score: D | Sep 18, 2009

The film is part romance, part drama, part Seattle travelogue, with Washington emerging as the only true winner. Along with the benefactors of the movie's copious product placements, that is.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 18, 2009

More truthful (equally generic) titles might include: "Death Happens," "Psychobabble Happens" or "Lazy Screenwriters Make Love Happen Even If The Leads Have No Chemistry"

Full Review | Sep 18, 2009