The Notebook Critic Reviews
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The director is Nick Cassavetes, son of Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes, and perhaps his instinctive feeling for his mother helped him find the way past soap opera in the direction of truth.Read the full review
An old-fashioned and occasionally schmaltzy movie that delivers an emotional wallopRead the full review
Audiences craving big, gooey over-the-top romance have their must-see summer movie in The Notebook.Read the full review
The scenes between the young lovers confronting adult authority have the same seething tension and lurking hysteria that the young Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood brought more than 40 years ago to their roles in "Splendor in the Grass."Read the full review
A gifted cast was bogged down by a treacly tale.Read the full review
Considering the sunny, relatively pleasurable romantic business that precedes it, the elderly stuff seems dark, morbid, and forced upon us.Read the full review
Sadly, the elements that made the book special did not survive the transition to the screen.Read the full review
May be one hundred percent sap, but its spirit is anything but cloying, thanks to persuasive performances, most notably from Rachel McAdams.Read the full review
A determined and often affecting romance that doesn't speak down to audiences.Read the full review
You know what you want to see if you want to see The Notebook...You want to see girls in pretty 1940s dresses, soldiers in stirring World War II uniforms, handsome automobiles and equally handsome Southern landscapes. You want to see romance overcome adversity.Read the full review
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