The Love Letter: Critic Reviews

It wants to revel in rapture and grand illusions and timeless dreams, yet its vision of love is overly graphed out and willed.

Bland dialogue and dull sitcom acting!

The Force isn't with, nor is there much dramatic force behind The Love Letter!

You're left wishing you'd never opened this letter.

The Love Letter transports the recipe from Hollywood to New England and turns it into the kind of flavorful clambake that defines summer escapist entertainment.

In a no-role role, Mr. Selleck appears beefy and dull.

Although the movie's affection for its characters is refreshing, none of them stirs our passions.

A scattershot account of unexpected, confusing romantic love that spreads like a virus!

An especially affecting love story!

Capshaw is cold and charmless!

A mild and likable enough romantic comedy.

A romantic comedy of much charm and wisdom!

To call this 'a romantic comedy-drama' is to imply an involving emotional core and a witty sense of humor that simply aren't there.

A nice old-fashioned romance -- how refreshing.

Choosing not to emphasize the romantic angle, the film feels more like a pilot for a television sitcom than a movie.

Intended as an ode to the power of words, 'Letter' is rarely worth listening to, let alone watching, and matters aren't helped by slice-and-dice editing that sometimes makes you wonder if the camera started rolling in mid-scene...

Irritatingly cozy and with few unexpected turns, the film is just too cute for its own good.

Where it should soar with humor or longing, it merely skips along -- a stream of surprising and somewhat forced revelations.