The ending of Midnight Sun is more of an eyeroller than a tearjerker. This film will have a very particular audience, and you'll know if you're a member of it. If not, stay away.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 21, 2018

Forced to act beside this handsome stick of furniture, Bela Thorne, who sings bland songs and delivers blander dialogue as Katy Price, comes across as the reincarnation of both Barbara Stanwyck and Judy Garland. She's grand. She'll survive.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 13, 2018

A disappointing production which could have benefited from a better screenplay.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 30, 2018

Laughably predictable, far too tempered to generate any tearjerking stakes worth caring about.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 30, 2018

The "sick lit" genre gets a crushingly bad new addition...spectacularly uninspired stuff.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 29, 2018

The storytelling is so soft-centred that it has melted into mush long before Katie is exposed to those lethal sun rays.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 29, 2018

That being said, whatever a midnight sun actually is, its rays are pretty weak.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 29, 2018

It is a genetically modified sobfest, in which terminal illness looks like just another Instagram filter.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 28, 2018

With modest production values throughout, "Midnight Sun" feels like four or five episodes of a pretty good drama on the WB network in 1997. In other words, something you used to get for free.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 23, 2018

The authentic Sparks movies at least tend to be howlers, with shamelessly overcomplicated narratives and risible twists. Midnight Sun, on the other hand, is straightforward and trite.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 23, 2018

A preposterous film so insufferably adorable and frightfully melodramatic that viewers will find themselves confused as to which reflex to stifle: The urge to howl, or the one to hurl.

| Mar 23, 2018

Midnight Sun is cheesy and implausible and manipulative, but it did chip away at my cynicism through the sheer force of its corny and sincere heart.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 23, 2018

In slapsticky moments, you can tell she's working overtime to spark something, anything, but nothing catches fire in this Midnight Sun.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 23, 2018

Save your money and your tissues.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 23, 2018

None of the film rings remotely true, especially the cornball conclusion, but the two young leads are so darn attractive and appealing that one can't help being caught up in their characters' poignant romance.

| Mar 23, 2018

Under the limp direction of Scott Speer, "Midnight Sun" suffocates its sentimental script, portraying passion without wonder, sacrifice without ecstasy.

| Mar 23, 2018

Schwarzenegger's chief skills are leaning against things, looking confused and having good hair, while Thorne struggles to convincingly lip sync.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 23, 2018

The trouble isn't just that "Midnight Sun" cherry-picks the most poetic elements of a real-world disease to serve its transparently manipulative ends, but that it offers audiences such an unrealistic portrait of romance in the process.

| Mar 23, 2018

Adolescent girls (and boys, too) are entitled to teen-tragedy tear-jerkers, those Kleenex-soaking tales of the fragility of life and love in an uncaring universe. But that audience deserves better than Midnight Sun.

| Mar 23, 2018

Midnight Sun does what it means to do for the people it means to do it for-and that might just be enough.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 23, 2018