How long can writer Nicholas Sparks trade off his iconic blub-fest The Notebook?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 5, 2017

A movie whose punch line is so delightfully absurd that even after you pretty much know what's coming you spit out your Pepsi anyway.

| Jan 3, 2014

Keeping up with the movie's inane plot twists makes for a capricious good time, but an unimaginative denouement turns the whole thing into a fool's errand.

| Mar 7, 2013

To this writer, it suggests one of those evasive US 온라인카지노추천 commercials for incontinence treatments or rheumatism therapies.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 1, 2013

Unfortunately Hough is not really up to the part and Duhamel isn't much better than a nice-looking block of wood.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 1, 2013

As ever with a Sparks story, the action takes place in a sugary vision of small-town America that does not correspond with the real world at any point.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 28, 2013

Almost nothing happens for long stretches before a plot "twist" so obvious that only the dull-witted could fail to see it coming.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 28, 2013

The very definition of a stinker.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 28, 2013

[The] final reel ... descends into the Vortex of Bonkers, delivering fits of unexpected laughter.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 26, 2013

Hallstrm is an old pro at navigating this kind of undemandingly dramatic yarn and does a pretty fine job with Sparks' story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 25, 2013

Plods along with dialogue just above the level of crayon scribblings, and the direction by the usually reliable Lasse Hallstrm is dismayingly sluggish.

| Feb 20, 2013

Their love story has a mellow ease -- as neither of them has much of a personality, we're just watching two swell people decide to bone

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 15, 2013

It's as though the filmmakers lacked the confidence to stick with the basic story, which served every element needed in a Sparks-infused guilty pleasure.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 14, 2013

We genuinely like watching Hough and Duhamel circling around one another, and the movie has a nice sense of place. That all eventually vanishes with a doozy of a third act.

| Feb 14, 2013

On its own merits, Safe Haven is about as satisfying and filling as a Valentine's Day conversation heart, with far less to say.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 14, 2013

The latest Nicholas Sparks-derived weepfest, Safe Haven, is being marketed as a Valentine's Day special, but the plot line is closer to a stalker thriller. It's sudsy-scary. It's also not very good.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 14, 2013

Sure, Sparks is a known for recycling material, but Hallstrm and scripters Leslie Bohem and Dana Stevens really push the limit by poaching the iconic canoe-in-a-rainstorm scene from The Notebook.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 14, 2013

Will there ever be a good movie based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 14, 2013

Hough doesn't stand a chance against shoddy pacing, horrific editing, and plot direction disastrous enough to make your toes curl.

| Original Score: D | Feb 14, 2013

Hough emits all the charisma of a personal assistant ...

| Feb 14, 2013