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63
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
It's pleasant enough as a date movie, but that's all.
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63
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Boston Globe Ty Burr
It's quite watchable date-night cheese - the kind of movie you can simultaneously snort at and enjoy.
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63
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Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Ready-made for Valentine's Day, The Vow is, like the offerings at Cafe Mnemonic, a total sugar overload.
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50
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USA Today Claudia Puig
It may appeal to the most rabid fans of tearjerk romances like "The Notebook," but it's a hard-to-swallow, maudlin tale.
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Washington Post
The romantic drama The Vow looks like the kind of annual Valentine's Day staple that arrives just as calls start flooding flower shops and chocolate bonbon displays invade your local CVS.
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40
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The New York Times A.O. Scott
When they are on the screen together here, there is enough physical charm and emotional warmth to distract from the threadbare setting and the paper-thin plot. But those defects ultimately get in the way of the stars and leave you wondering: Is this a romance about neurological impairment or a neurologically impaired romance?
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Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey
This is a movie that leaves you wanting more. To care more, to cry more, to love more.
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38
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
The Vow is a sopping hankie of a romance for women who love to suffer and the men who love them.
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25
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San Francisco Chronicle
Even viewers who are an easy touch for romance movies will find this heavy-handed.
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
It's a tragedy, really: According to the hapless team who made the movie, Our Paige is a relatively interesting young liberal who knows her own mind before the accident and a rather tedious, girlish conservative who fusses about keeping her hair smooth afterwards.
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