... it forgets to pause and consider what romance is really about and it's not about trying to be the new Love Actually

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

Yes, it's cliched and not well acted, Valentine's Day still musters up some comedic moments (mostly from Ashton Kutcher) and keeps your attention.

| Original Score: C | Sep 11, 2017

| Original Score: B | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

A gigantic mess of clich romantic dramas that only works because it's brought to life by familiar faces and talented actors.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 13, 2010

It's a very glib, shallow movie, but it keeps you moving around enough that you could actually have a good time.

Full Review | Feb 16, 2010

It's got a cold, shiny cash register right where its heart should be.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 16, 2010

A brutal St Valentine's Day massacre of comedy, of love, of believable human emotion.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 16, 2010

The many mysteries of the human heart aren't solved by Garry Marshall's Love Actually-style ensemble romcom. It's more like an all-star perfect teeth and hair convention you could cheerfully firebomb.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 16, 2010

The set pieces, most often provided by rather hammy and two-dimensional, if not straight-down offensive, 'foreigners' were like something from low-budget Malyalam comedies.

Full Review | Feb 16, 2010

Your riddle of the week. Why is Valentine's Day like outer space? Because it's a big nothing filled with stars.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 16, 2010

At first sight Garry Marshall's all-star ensemble looks to be a Short Cuts-lite - Short Cutlets, if you will - until it establishes its tone of flabby sentimentality and you realise it's more like an LA version of Love, Actually.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 16, 2010

The film is described as "a day in the life of love" and presents us with a group of beautiful Angelinos striving to justify a screenplay that gives them nothing coherent to do.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 16, 2010

Where's Al Capone and the North Side Gang when you need them? Cos if the time was right for another Valentine's Day Massacre, it has to be now.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 16, 2010

Valentine's Day the film, is exactly what you think it is. You can't complain if you see it, because, you were warned. By the title, by the trailer and by the genre.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 14, 2010

The film may be set in L.A., but no scene lasts longer than a New York minute.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 12, 2010

Every skit is lame, every line of dialogue is stale, every joke falls flat, and every performance has been phoned in between text messages to agents blinking, ''SOS!''

| Original Score: F | Feb 12, 2010

Valentine's Day is a passing nod to love, like a box of chocolates or flowers that soon wilt. It's star-studded amiable fluff with no real value, but it's kind of a tickle if you're in the mood.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 12, 2010

Charmingly cast and phenomenally so-so.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 12, 2010

I had always thought of Love Actually, this movie's obvious antecedent, as a pleasant diversion, but next to Valentine's Day, it's a cerebral epic on par with Robert Altman's Nashville.

| Feb 12, 2010