- 8
Director Gary Winick and cinematographer Marco Pontecorvo fit together the fate-tossed stuff of mass-appeal love stories and the seductive imagery of travelogue vacation movies so smoothly that the sequel to Letters to Juliet might well be Letters to Orbitz: Find me a flight to Verona!
—Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly
- 7
...enjoyable. You heard me. I'm as stunned as you are.
—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
- 7
...funny, sweet and captivating.
—Alynda Wheat People
- 7
...a soppy melodrama, and I don't mind in the least. I know the ending is preordained from the setup. I know the characters are broad and comforting stereotypes. In this case, I simply don't care.
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
- 6
...represents an interesting paradox: it is a movie that is very nearly perfect without being especially good.
—A. O. Scott New York Times
- 6
...ostensibly about the thrill of true love, but lacks the racing pulse of fiery passion.
—Dezhda Gaubert E!
- 6
...a guilty pleasure that's lighter on the guilt and heavier on the pleasure.
—Claudia Puig USA Today
- 6
...an ode to romance of the most starry-eyed sort, a sugary paean to quixotic clichés and a film destined to be a guilty pleasure for some (me included, sigh) and the painful price of a relationship for others (so steel yourselves).
—Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times
- 5
...unapologetic schmaltz, deftly directed...
—Peter Travers Rolling Stone
- 5
...both [actresses] seem at a loss as to how to improve a clunker-laden script or push a film that's content to move at a parcel-post pace.
—Keith Phipps Onion AV Club
- 5
...[director] Winick's flat direction does the material no favors: If Egan and Seyfried have any chemistry, it's framed out of their awkwardly staged climactic kisses.
—Karina Longworth Village Voice
- 5
...[director] Winick's flat direction does the material no favors: If Egan and Seyfried have any chemistry, it's framed out of their awkwardly staged climactic kisses.
—Karina Longworth LA Weekly
- 5
...quite a happy movie, indeed. A film so happy, in fact, it fails to realize its premise is so stale and its depiction of movie romance so old-fashioned that another Shakepeare remake would seem fresh by comparison.
—Jason McKiernen filmcritic.com
- 5
The best reason to see Letters to Juliet is for the scenery. Why put up with airport traffic, full body searches, Icelandic ash clouds, and lost luggage when, instead, you can sit back and bask in the warm earth tones and blue vistas of Verona, Siena, Lake Garda, and Argiano.
—Peter Rainer Christian Science Monitor
- 4
...a dime store novel-quality story...
—Nick Schager Slant Magazine
- 4
Beautiful scenery and a cute premise can't camouflage a stale plot in bland romance.
—John DeFore Hollywood Reporter
- 4
...a syrupy Italy-set romantic comedy...
—Ronnie Schieb Variety
- 3
A girl with relationship woes can hardly set foot in Europe these days without finding herself hip-deep in yummy food and tasty men. The latest iteration of the story is Letters to Juliet or, as I like to think of it, Eat Pray Hurl.
—Kyle Smith New York Post