Sweet November (2001) Critic Reviews

Neither a masterpiece nor a remake of one, but its wistfulness is infectious, and its melancholy mood lingers for days.Read the full review

It's a small film, and a far from perfect one, but it allows her (Theron) to extend her range as no previous role has done.Read the full review

He's (Reeves) not as good as he was playing a menacing Georgia wife-beater in The Gift, but he's an awfully convincing jerk.Read the full review

A contrived but entirely workable premise is given a well-tooled treatment in Sweet November, a femme-slanted doomed romance with a heavily calculated feel to it.Read the full review

November is when we eat turkey, and Sweet November is pretty much a fat, juicy gobbler passed off as Valentine's Day date bait.Read the full review

A film that means to be seductive but merely progresses from the contrived to the manipulative.Read the full review

Passes off pathological behavior as romantic bliss. It's about two sick and twisted people playing mind games and calling it love.Read the full review

A very low grade romantic drama indeed, a love story with all the life and death intensity of a heat rash.Read the full review

The film's last half-hour -- or do I mean its final two weeks? -- is meant to keep the audience sniffling and sobbing uncontrollably, but the only thing likely to elicit tears is the sight of Mr. Reeves dressed in a white dinner jacket crooning "Time After Time."Read the full review