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(1 - 27) of 27 OFCS Rating: 26% Rotten Page   1   "'Nights in Rodanthe' serves up too much manipulated sentimentality for my taste, even though I admit being incurably romantic most of the time."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker 1/5 "This Windstorms of North Carolina Counties is so overwrought and Harlequin-ed that only the most susceptible of spinsters or inexperienced poetry majors will fall for its faux passions."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron B+ "Kept animated by the superior work of the cast, who take the surface mentality of the source material and make it a deeply felt, agreeably tragic romantic experience. Rodanthe is obvious, but it's very effective."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf C- ""Nights in Rodanthe" is a passable tearjerker for aging women, but less so for the rest of us."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 3.5/4 "...the film ultimately earns a place for itself within the pantheon of effectively stirring romantic tearjerkers."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 3/4 "One of this year's most stirring romances, adroitly manipulative, yes, but never condescending."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman C "The central performances are solid -- but they'd have to be, to make something this rote and formulaic come even close to working."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider C "Okay, look: everybody has got to stop crying."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 2/4 "...[A] moping melodramatic malaise. Ridiculously artificial in its Cupid-driven cornucopia of sketchy endearment. [Rodanthe] has the forceful flair of an unlit wax candle."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng D "Redolent of the schmaltziest weepies of a half-century or more ago...strong evidence for the proposition that Nicholas Sparks must have been Fannie Hurst in an earlier life."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/5 "A romantic drama that is plagued by artificiality."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 1.5/4 "I can kind-of, sort-of see how this story might work as a novel. Bad dialogue doesn't sound as howlingly awful when not spoken aloud. Idiotic plot contrivances don't seem as painful and obvious."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/4 "Director George C. Wolfe's overly-crafted adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel is a bit much. But the two leads are so charismatic that they manage to sell the material far more than it deserves."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 4/10 "The actors once again work well together, but they should have quit when they were ahead."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 1.5/5 "I imagine that the Nicholas Sparks fan base is going to eat this movie up. However, for myself, it was one of the most boring movies of the year."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr D+ "...a goopy, disjointed weepie elevated ever so slightly by the reteaming of "Unfaithful" costars Gere and Lane."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 1.5/4 "Painfully maudlin and cliched."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 2/4 "Nights in Rodanthe is the cinematic equivalent of a Harlequin novel with a pack of tissues shoved into the back cover."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B "Close-ups were invented for Lane's rare beauty, inside and out. We feel that it is her spirit as an actress and a character illuminating this story."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 1/4 "There's little room for genuine emotion in this turgid romantic fantasy adapted from a novel by slop-meister Nicholas Sparks."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 1/5 "Where is Dutch Schultz and his meat fork when you need them?"   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2.5/5 "This involving movie ultimately succumbs to a severe case of the weepies, as we know it must"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline "A movie that looks and sounds a whole lot bigger than it actually is."   Movie Views   Ryan Cracknell 3.5/5 "provides earnest human connections and palpable heartache."   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell 6/10 "Sensitive and sentimental - bring tissue, it's a weeper."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 0.5/4 "I will say this about Nights in Rodanthe: spoken Nicholas Sparks is preferable to written Nicholas Sparks."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 27) of 27 OFCS Rating: 26% Rotten Page   1