A Lot Like Love Critic Reviews

In essence, British director Nigel Cole has brought a breezy arthouse sensibility to this tale of fated love.Read the full review

The chuckles here come from the leads' interplay, crying on each other's shoulders and cheering each other up.Read the full review

Here's a pleasant little romantic comedy that doesn't try too hard and has the virtue of doing a few things differently.Read the full review

Kutcher and Peet are a low-wattage pair, with little of the verbal riffing that counts as seduction in most romantic comedies, but they have real chemistry together, and A Lot Like Love happily indulges their silly, juvenile one-upmanship.Read the full review

If the script isn't as well-structured as it could be, the dialogue is refreshingly natural. Kutcher is surprisingly well cast as the awkward, somewhat dorky Oliver, and Peet is charming and charismatic without being cloying or artificial.Read the full review

This is a hand-me-(dumbed)-down chick flick that is counting on Kutcher's tabloid popularity and Peet's unmistakable though here underutilized talents to cover up for rote characterizations, tired plot devices and a general lack of inspiration.Read the full review

Isn't half bad and every so often is pretty good, filled with real sentiment, worked-through performances and a story textured enough to sometimes feel a lot like life.Read the full review

An unfortunate casting decision, however, comes close to sabotaging a witty script.Read the full review

As the film stopped counting back in years and switched to months, I panicked that it would slog on to weeks, hours and seconds before reaching its inevitable end. I was wrong. About A Lot Like Love leaving you wanting a lot less, I am right.Read the full review