Dear John

"Ultimately, the story feels as if it's killing time before throwing the next hurdle at the couple."

"After the Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe and the Last Song, another Nicholas Sparks book makes its way to the big screen."

"Dear John carefully distills selected elements of human experience and reduces them to a sweet and digestible syrup. It may not be strong medicine, but it delivers an effective, pleasing dose of pure sentiment and vicarious heartache."

"Dear John exists only to coddle the sentiments of undemanding dreamers, and plunge us into a world where the only evil is the interruption of the good."

"Fans of The Notebook will forgive this film its flaws"

"Dear John, oh how I hate to write. But write I must, and here I go."

"The film, while heartfelt and directed by multiple-Oscar nominee Lasse Hallstrom, is dramatically stillborn."

"A touching melodrama illuminated by a solid turn from Tatum."