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Moore makes Halley's awakening organic and touching. In an age when most teenagers are up to their eyeballs in postmodern consumer glitz, her movies seem radical not just in their retro squareness but in their unfashionable embrace of faith over ironic flippancy.Read the full review

There's a surprising intelligence and gravity working beneath its bubbly surface, informed by an unusual degree of empathy for its adolescent audience and a rare willingness to confront the darker regions of youth experience.Read the full review

Works up some genuine emotion offset by occasional humor and creates individuals of a certain degree of complexity, but the film is glazed over with an aura of artificiality. Read the full review

A thoughtful but uneven teen picture, also has too much going on. Read the full review

I watched the movie with interest, yes, but not emotional involvement, and my appreciation of Moore was based more on her essence than on her character.Read the full review

The pop diva goes down with the bubbles in this hopelessly shallow soap opera. Read the full review

This movie is the worst episode of ''Gilmore Girls'' ever. Read the full review

A bland romance that suffers from choppy development, dramatic overload and dearth of personality.Read the full review

Moore and Ford rise above the hackneyed story, infusing the proceedings with their own chemistry and appeal. If only the adults responsible for this film could learn how to deal.Read the full review