Dear John
critic Reviews
, 28% Rotten Tomatometer Score- Built from many of the same ingredients as other Nicholas Sparks tearjerkers, Dear John suffers from its cliched framework, as well as Lasse Hallstrom's curiously detached directing.
- , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreAnna Smithmetro.co.uk
Seyfried and Tatum have tangible chemistry...
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreRead full articleAaron HillisTime Out
- , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreChristine ChampFilm.com
It's like a bad soap opera.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreIan BuckwalterNPR
What starts as a charming anachronism %u2014 pens, paper and the postal service in an impersonal digital age %u2014 becomes tedious as Hallstrom is reduced to interminable, repetitive montages covering the many months that the pair are apart.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreDerek MalcolmLondon Evening Standard
Tatum makes what use he can of his two expressions, Seyfried does her best to perk things up and much the best performer is Richard Jenkins...
- , Rotten Tomatometer ScorePhelim O'NeillGuardian
Their romance fizzles out in their letters to each other, and the plot gets lost in the post.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreRene JordanEl Nuevo Herald (Miami)
Super melodramatic but well acted. [Full review in Spanish]
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreStuart McGurkNME (New Musical Express)
Dig beneath the surface of its fuzzy, emotional, tear-dripped exterior, and there's something quite terrifying about Dear John: a coldly efficient machine at work, ruthlessly hitting big emotional notes at regular intervals...
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreRichard PropesTheIndependentCritic.com
It's the kind of film that almost never wins the recommendations of the film critics.
Read full article - , Rotten Tomatometer ScoreKate RodgerNewshub (NZ)
For me Dear John just didn't have the goods.
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