Must Love Dogs Critic Reviews

A breath of fresh air amid the superheroes, aliens and bombastic explosions of summer.Read the full review

It's a frisky romantic comedy with a great title and wonderfully appealing performances.Read the full review

These two generate real, slow-burning rapport, so that you're still pulling for them even during a gratingly preposterous climax.Read the full review

To properly appreciate Must Love Dogs, one must first love John Cusack. Thesp's maverick turn steals the show in this otherwise middling romantic comedy, which retools standard meet-cute elements for the Web generation in pleasant but uninspired fashion.Read the full review

A thoroughly conventional romantic comedy with all the usual trimmings.Read the full review

While Lane is her typical winning self, the film is mawkish. The more we're cajoled to root for Sarah Nolan, the divorced preschool teacher she plays, the more Must Love Dogs stops resembling a movie and starts feeling like a greeting card.Read the full review

Bland and forgettable - a romantic comedy with affable characters and some funny lines, but where love never really takes flight. It fizzles when it should sizzle.Read the full review

The movie is pleasant, sedate, subdued and sweet, but there is not a moment of suspense in it.Read the full review

Cusack should have been half the picture, but the screenplay keeps shoving him offstage for no good reason, and it's a mistake. One of many.Read the full review