Costner has a free pass to be as lazy as he can possibly be, and the result is one of the most smugly alienating romantic lead performances that I can quickly call to mind.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Apr 3, 2012

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

If it had just quit while it was ahead....

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 18, 2009

Leaves one feeling empty.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 31, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 14, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 8, 2003

If only Costner could be cast out to sea like a bottle.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Aug 8, 2002

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 22, 2002

Paul Newman as a cantankerous old man steals this movie with his character's endearing forthrightness.

| Feb 28, 2002

Tolerate the silly and swoony story and allow yourself to drift away in the gorgeous Caleb Deschanel photography.

| Original Score: short | Apr 28, 2001

Full Review | Mar 12, 2001

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 27, 2001

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 1, 2001

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 1, 2000

Just a Degree or Two Shy of True North

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Perhaps the most disappointing thing about Message in a Bottle is that it really could have turned out to be something.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Have romantic dramas sunk so low that somebody would actually buy this bilge of goods?

| Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000