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88
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
What I respond to in the movie is its fundamental romantic impulse.
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75
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
The measure of this kind of movie is its seductiveness, not its logic, nor the ways in which it exploits the supernatural angle, and The Lake House is seductive.
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70
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The New York Times Dana Stevens
The movie is, above all, a showcase for its stars, who seem gratifyingly comfortable in their own skin and delighted to be in each other's company again, in another deeply silly, effortlessly entertaining movie.
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63
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Boston Globe Ty Burr
How deeply silly is The Lake House? As silly as a movie about two letter-writing lovers separated by a wrinkle in time can be. How much sweet, dumb fun is it? More than you might want to admit.
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50
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Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
A chronological brain-teaser confounding enough to keep you busy trying to figure out whether those holes are in the story or in your logic. But ultimately the movie is more interested in the love part of the equation than in the whole crazy, madcap physics part.
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42
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
The only real magic in The Lake House is that Kate and Alex have never heard of e-mail.
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40
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Washington Post Stephen Hunter
The Lake House has the sensibility of something conceived by Stephen King after an overdose of chocolate-covered cherries and valentine cards. In other words, it's sugary sweet and based on a premise that's just -- no other word will do -- ridiculous.
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38
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USA Today Claudia Puig
One of the more befuddling movies of recent years. The premise makes no sense, no matter how you turn it around in your head.
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30
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Nothing stands up to scrutiny -- least of all the lethargic acting and the clumsy script. I was hot to trot for the exit halfway through, but a dogged sense of duty kept me stuck in an endless present.
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25
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
I can't believe that even the most rabid chick-flick masochists wouldn't gag on it.
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