The Notebook Critic Reviews

A lovely surprise. Ripe with feeling and lush with physical beauty, it's a love story that swings confidently between age and youth, and, like the young Tiger Woods of old, avoids every trap along the way. Read the full review

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 wallop Read 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