The production is light, filled with big love and sobbing cries, two talented stars that sufficiently play their roles, and plenty of awww moments the movie makes sure to replay during the end credits. What’s not to enjoy?

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 3, 2024

Marley and Me has its funny moments, never neglecting its dramatic objective. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 4, 2021

The ending brings all the feels

| Oct 19, 2020

A solid date flick.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 16, 2020

Thanks to its two central performances from [Owen] Wilson and [Jennifer] Aniston... it proves to be a fun, easy and totally unpretentious watch that has more bark than you might think.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2019

In Marley and Me, as in life, both romance and laughs persist years after the wedding day.

| Oct 10, 2018

OK, I admit I cried a small bucket at the end... but at least I hated myself for it. This is bland and obsequious tripe or, as my own dog would say, "Woof!"

| Aug 29, 2018

I can vouch that director David Frankel succeeds in wringing out every last tear from the audience.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 21, 2014

Save some time; stay at home and think of your dead pets instead.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 29, 2012

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 18, 2012

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

It's shaggy and scattered, but give Marley a biscuit for its realistic depiction of how powerful can be the bond between dogs and their "people."

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 28, 2011

If you like the Lassie films, or even Beethoven and Old Yeller, you'll probably find this one easy to like.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 12, 2011

Although billed as a romantic comedy, this film is neither: it's a drama spanning about two decades in a marriage

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 7, 2010

I'm fairly sure that the book and the film shared a common goal -- to make its audience sit, stay, laugh, cry, then move on -- and at those modest aspirations, the movie succeeds.

| Dec 17, 2009

It left me crying like a five year old...

| Jul 5, 2009

Even dog skeptics might be surprised how deftly Marley & Me adapts newspaper columnist John Grogan's book...into the equivalent of a kid's movie for adults. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 26, 2009

Sometimes, and especially on a crummy afternoon in the middle of March, it's nice to be able to switch off and settle down to enjoying the sight of middle-class families eating well and playing together in sprawling, bucolic gardens.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2009

...the strength of the finale effectively elevates everything that preceded it...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 17, 2009

Marley & Me is a film of moments and many of them are cute. For anyone who has ever had a dog or a close pet, there's bound to be some connection.

| Apr 10, 2009