The result is a sometimes maudlin melodrama that threatens to swamp the viewing with a tide of syrupy schmaltz.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 9, 2023

Here, getting swept into the notion that love prevails over all else is just too much to take (which is certainly not a new idea from Sparks).

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 28, 2020

It's a film that may register as a date night alternative.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 18, 2020

A quick, light feel-good romance.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 7, 2020

Nights in Rodanthe has some strange edits, and the unhappily married mother Lane and the estranged father Gere are so badly directed that most of the time you just want to laugh at the wooden dialogue and delivery.

| Nov 1, 2018

So nondescript that its anonymity becomes its very personality.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 14, 2012

| Original Score: B | Feb 14, 2012

...the film ultimately earns a place for itself within the pantheon of effectively stirring romantic tearjerkers.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 23, 2009

A movie that looks and sounds a whole lot bigger than it actually is.

| Mar 4, 2009

While it may be discerned as more a vehicle for the actors' reunion than a creative gem, the contributive factor to its attractiveness is the chemistry of the match.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 15, 2009

You could have filmed zombies in a gorgeous 19th century beach house and gotten the same emotional impact.

| Original Score: D- | Feb 11, 2009

Even if you are rooting for this film to succeed, you find yourself sitting through the tear-jerking part of the movie without feeling terribly wrapped up in it.

Full Review | Original Score: 63/100 | Feb 10, 2009

Nights in Rodanthe is the cinematic equivalent of a Harlequin novel with a pack of tissues shoved into the back cover.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 9, 2009

The actors once again work well together, but they should have quit when they were ahead.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Feb 5, 2009

Diane Lane and the Tuscan countryside prove to be a more dynamic duo than Diane Lane and the Outer Banks.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 26, 2008

Bring tissues.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 14, 2008

I will say this about Nights in Rodanthe: spoken Nicholas Sparks is preferable to written Nicholas Sparks.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4 | Nov 9, 2008

Strictly for romantic masochists. Enough tears in the final reel to fill a Hollywood producer's swimming pool.

| Nov 7, 2008

While not for the cynical or hard-of-heart, Nights in Rodanthe is something of a rarity: a film that puts its characters first.

Full Review | Nov 7, 2008

A singularly unsuccessful look at mature love.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 7, 2008