- 7
It's billed as a romance ? but for hipster guys, The Vow may come off as a horror movie.
—Sara Stewart New York Post
- 6
...a complaisant date-night bauble designed for romantic indelibility, right down to its touching true-story roots.
—Peter Debruge Variety
- 6
...agreeable enough.
—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
- 6
...a well-behaved, tenderhearted love story about impossibly nice people.
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
- 5
...unashamedly escapist...
—Keith Phipps Onion AV Club
- 5
This is a movie whose true romance has virtually nothing to do with the movie itself.
—R. Kurt Oseland Slant Magazine
- 5
...designed for comfort...
—A. O. Scott New York Times
- 5
...a movie that leaves you wanting more. To care more, to cry more, to love more.
—Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times
- 5
...promises tried-and-true rom-com formula and delivers, treading in sappy, cliché-ridden turf.
—Claudia Puig USA Today
- 3
...this slow, sincere romantic concoction cannot conceal what it is, a commodity manufactured to be sold to a very specific audience for Valentine's Day. Women supposedly get to call the shots on what film to see on this holiday, and enough will pick this to make it click at the box office. But good luck to the young men who get roped into going.
—Todd McCarthy Hollywood Reporter
- 3
...a [cruel] bastardization of genuine human pain...
—Jason McKiernan filmcritic.com