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By Peter Hartlaub (620) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 13 Feb 2014

The update is a different kind of failure, too much endless and not enough love…

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By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 13 Feb 2014

This stinker is only good for endless laughs…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 13 Feb 2014

Directed by Shana Feste (“Country Strong”), this new Endless Love doesn’t have enough going on to make it memorably terrible: Banality…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 13 Feb 2014

If you’re looking for a Valentine’s Day date, this version is probably a better choice than the uncomfortably swoony original would have…

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By Heather Baysa (13) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Feb 2014

This film is a sunny, overlong pastiche of tropes, the kind that suggest love involves nothing more than holding hands and jumping off a dock…

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By Randy Cordova (352) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 12 Feb 2014

If you had to update the film for the Instagram generation, you could do a lot worse than what director Shana Feste (“Country Strong”)…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 12 Feb 2014

The film also contains fleeting moments of authenticity…

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By R. Kurt Osenlund (158) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Feb 2014

Shana Feste's film seems blissfully unaware that great fights require truly substantial conflicts…

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By Richard Schickel (546) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 12 Feb 2014

Hith her flat little voice and her skinny emotional range, one has to wonder: Is Brooke Shields truly obsession worthy…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for McClatchy-Tribune News Service (291) on 12 Feb 2014

Greenwood and Richardson make a fine, discordant couple and the young leads have a certain chemistry…

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By Louis Black (103) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 12 Feb 2014

Not to harp on petty details, but this film is so colossally tone-deaf and off-key in every way that its collection of jarring missteps almost…

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By Anna Smith (519) for Empire (3,446) on 11 Feb 2014

A flowerier adaptation of the Scott Spencer romance than Zeffirelli's '80s version, it's tailor-made for the Nicholas Sparks crowd…

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By Trevor Johnston (624) for Time Out London (344) on 11 Feb 2014

Pettyfer and Wilde (both Brits) look the part in a soft-drinks-commercial way, but their characters might as well be called Ken and Barbie…

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By Judith Martin (39) for Washington Post (9,851) on 02 Mar 2013

A Cotton-candy rendition of Scott Spencer's powerful novel, Endless Love is a manipulative tale of a doomed romance which careens repeatedly…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 28 Jan 2012

A bad but commercially popular romantic melodrama, due to Brooke Shields' celeb status at the time and the the Oscar-nominated tune by Lionel Richie…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 09 Apr 2010

The movie as a whole does not understand the particular strengths of the novel that inspired it, does not convince us it understands adolescent…

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By Chuck O'leary (376) for FulvueDrive-in.com (175) on 16 Aug 2007

A potentially interesting story of obsessive teenage love is sabotaged by some laughably absurd overplotting…

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By Janet Maslin (949) for New York Times (5,786) on 29 Aug 2004

Mr…

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By Gary Arnold (279) for Washington Post (9,851) on 11 Mar 2001

Scott Spencer's intelligent, rather lurid novel of youthful angst is here watered down to stock teen romance…

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