It's got that summertime blandness.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 29, 2019

The film is clearly a labour of love, but it never really transcends its safe Sunday telly atmosphere and sadly it feels like a missed opportunity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 23, 2019

Characters' motivations often make no sense at all and people veer wildly between being likeable and ghastly with little attempt to provide explanation or context.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 26, 2019

Dan Stevens is the one genuinely likeable element to this dreary Downton-on-Sea.

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

The performances are but one eye roll-inducing aspect of a period drama so generic and formulaic that it verges on parody.

| Original Score: D | Jun 21, 2016

[I]gnores the work... of important painter Florence Carter-Wood to focus on a tediously tragic romantic triangle.

| Aug 12, 2014

Regardless of its true-story credentials, Summer In February seems to have been cobbled together from the moldy spare parts of countless Masterpiece Theater PBS movies.

| Original Score: 1.0/5 | Jan 31, 2014

Gorgeous scenes along the Cornish coast are impressive, but the film lacks the dynamic chemistry between lovers that's so important in a romance-themed movie.

| Jan 20, 2014

...Summer In February eventually settles into a dull routine much like the dissatisfied characters of the film, which will make for an easily dissatisfied audience.

| Original Score: D | Jan 17, 2014

In the end, it's a miserable movie about miserable people, and we're left to wonder why. But any further time spent considering this forgettable romance feels wasted.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 17, 2014

A relatively alluring period drama set in an artist's colony in Cornwall in 1913.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 17, 2014

It's sad when a movie that aspires to tell a sad, even tragic, story can't quite connect, and lies there inert on the screen instead of galvanizing or even stirring emotions the way it means to.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 17, 2014

Compared with the tepid contretemps of "Summer in February," the soap-opera theatrics of "Downton Abbey" have the depth of Chekhov.

| Jan 16, 2014

Lifetime movie with English accents.

| Jan 16, 2014

Summer in February is a well-made costume drama that fans of Downton Abbey will probably appreciate, while those hoping to learn about Munnings will be better off hitting the nearest museum.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2014

A period excursion into unnecessary suffering, leaving a wide open opportunity for gloriously pained performances and a steady dispensing of anguish, but Summer in February just doesn't register as intended.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 16, 2014

Cooper stomps around ineffectually, Stevens makes for a blandly tame suitor, and Browning is unable to ignite any chemistry with either. The scenery is stunning. But the swooning has all the heat of a midwinter's swim.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 16, 2014

A ceaselessly bland take on the famed Lamorna artists' colony in Cornwall, circa 1911.

| Jan 14, 2014

As sumptuous as it is immensely shallow, the film practically revels in its attention to lush English landscapes as a means to distract from its derivative storytelling.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 14, 2014

The film is at its best when the majestic countryside and the blossoming romance combine perfectly.

| Jan 14, 2014