Runaway Bride: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

50

We can no longer buy Roberts in her tearful romantic - melancholy mode.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

50

Gere and an almost ethereally radiant Roberts have never been better than in this sometimes herky-jerky breeze, which keeps improving as it goes.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

10

That charming thing only works if the story is good.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jay Carr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

Charm and stardust carry it past its blatantly manufactured quality.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Jeff Millar Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

Virtually every step the Runaway narrative takes produces collisions with credulity!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Steven Rosen Denver Post (Top Critic)

An awkward and gangly construct!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

50

After seeing Gere and Roberts play much smarter people, it is painful to see them dumbed down here.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

A shiny bauble full of dead weight, gloppy good feeling and airless cliches!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)

Quite clever and appealing!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Rod Dreher New York Post (Top Critic)

50

A runaway bore!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Moira MacDonald Film.com (Top Critic)

It looks as if Julia and the horse were trying to get the hell away from the camera, and into a better movie.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Robert Horton Film.com (Top Critic)

Safe and sane and bland.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Ernest Hardy Film.com (Top Critic)

Runaway Bride is an atrocious bit of by-the-numbers screen filler.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Mary Elizabeth Williams Salon.com (Top Critic)

Roberts and Gere try gamely to look at each other as if there's a scintilla of frisson between them, but often as not they're forced to eschew the drama and go for absurd overacting.
Full Review » 12 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

50

A clumsy motion picture that strives so hard for the perfect romantic ending that it triggers a gag reflex along the way.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Kirk Honeycutt Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

There's no question the chemistry between them still works for a light romantic comedy. But an overcalculated, undernourished screenplay undermines much of the effort.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

40

Flawed and unpleasant!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

60

Cute romantic comedy OK for most older kids.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Jeffrey Westhoff Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

75

Runs a half-hour too long, and it drags through its multiple endings. Runaway Bride has plenty of delights, just a few too many.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality and Practice

A satisfying romantic comedy that reveals that we can't open our hearts to love until we stop cheating on our true selves.
Full Review » 10 years ago
John J. Puccio DVDTown.com

50

Remember the romantic sparks between Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in Pretty Woman? In Runaway Bride it's more like a damp fizzle.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Maitland McDonagh TV Guide's Movie Guide

Lack of chemistry between Richard Gere and Julia Roberts sinks this souffle!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Lawrence Toppman Charlotte Observer

The film has a lot of sweetness, some honest emotion and one scene between Cusack and Roberts that can stand with the best drama Hollywood produces nowadays.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Joe Baltake Sacramento Bee

Immensely likable!
Full Review » 12 years ago
Chuck Rudolph Matinee Magazine

17

A dull, lifeless stinkbomb that plays like a 2 hour commercial for itself, hoping that the Gere-Roberts-Marshall combination is enough to warrant viewers' money. It isn't.
Full Review » 12 years ago