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By Rob Thomas (1,118) for Madison Movie (219) on 16 Oct 2014

I never thought a movie would make me long for the gritty realism of 'The Notebook…

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By Sandie Angulo Chen (751) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 16 Oct 2014

Weepy Nicholas Sparks melodrama is cliche-ridden, violent…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 16 Oct 2014

In The Best of Me, the melodrama feels so hurried and half-baked that the end result isn’t just disappointing. It’s borderline infuriating…

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By David Edwards (979) for Daily Record (UK) (215) on 16 Oct 2014

Bad boy meets good girl, families get in the way and tragedy follows before the emotionally-contrived ending…

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By Liam Lacey (1,725) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 16 Oct 2014

Sparks’s preposterous approach has crystalized into cliché…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 16 Oct 2014

By the standards of other Sparks productions, this is buoyed up well enough by the cast to float along, and everyone's making the best of a…

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By Susan Wloszczyna (541) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 16 Oct 2014

As a moviegoer, however, you do have a choice. Either weep with them–or laugh at them. Or stay far, far away…

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By Jason Clark (86) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 16 Oct 2014

Even with lowered expectations toward escapist fare taken into account, the film is a long slog, with Marsden and Bracey conveying little but…

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By Rebecca Murray (740) for Showbiz Junkies (143) on 16 Oct 2014

The declining level of quality has bottomed out with the worst of the Nicholas Sparks book-inspired lot: The Best of Me…

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By Gary Wolcott (857) for Tri-City Herald (818) on 16 Oct 2014

I don't know much about Nicholas Sparks novels but do know movies based on them. They pretty much suck…

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By Mike Scott (1,178) for Times-Picayune (642) on 16 Oct 2014

The Best of Me is full-on Nicholas Sparks, through and through, checking all the boxes in the by-now well-established formula…

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By Sean O'connell (919) for CinemaBlend.com (1,378) on 16 Oct 2014

Predictability is The Best of Me's greatest sin…

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By Jim Judy (1,199) for Screen It! (1,437) on 16 Oct 2014

It's not rare to see a film derail, but it's sad to see one keep piling onto itself with all sorts of increasingly ponderous miscues, bad decisions…

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By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 16 Oct 2014

As a drama, it fails, but the camp value is high, making it more fun than your average would-be weeper. It's silly, but at least it's not a slog…

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By Brent Simon (1,142) for Screen International (2,241) on 16 Oct 2014

Sputters and struggles to find lift, relying almost entirely on the conviction and stand-alone innate goodwill of its performers before collapsing…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 16 Oct 2014

The Best of Me isn't too bad for the majority of its time-crossing story, which means the movie is better than the majority of movies based…

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By Simon Reynolds (297) for Digital Spy (1,161) on 16 Oct 2014

As the drama unfolds the ludicrousness of J Mills Goodloe and Will Fetters's script intensifies and the dramatic punches are more liable to…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 16 Oct 2014

It’s a case study on how the quality of screen partners is only as good as the quality of the romantic obstacles separating them…

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By Tirdad Derakhshani (358) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 16 Oct 2014

The Best of Me is neither worse than his other films nor particularly better. At 118 minutes, it is, however, one of the longest…

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By Eric Henderson (366) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Oct 2014

Even permitting that the movie's setup counts almost by default as one of Nicholas Sparks's more complicated scenarios, that makes his failure…

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