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- 06:00 PM, Apr 19
The movie looks good.by Connie Ogle [Miami Herald ]
slow-moving and far-fetched love storyby Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
left with a giggle-worthy messby Tom Horgen [Minneapolis Star Tribune ]
Dear John doesn’t need classing up. It needs some hot-blooded emotion.Review rate : C+ by Scott Tobias [A.V. Club ]
crowd-pleasing tearjerkerby Calvin Wilson [St. Louis Post-Dispatch ]
A lame romance coupled with more handicaps and hardships than any film can survive without the charge of audience manipulation.by Kirk Honeycutt [Hollywood Reporter ]
"Dear John" still will move you deeply - if you're a 12-year-old girl.by Bill Goodykoontz [Arizona Republic ]
"Dear John" is unabashedly sentimental, sometimes to the point of sillinessby Moira Macdonald [Seattle Times ]
"Dear John" carefully distills selected elements of human experience and reduces them to a sweet and digestible syrupby A.O. Scott [NY Times ]