P.S. I Love You (2007) Rank 2 Reviews

CinemaBlend.com (Alexandra Calamari)

P.S. I Love You isn't going to break the chick-flick barrier but it packs a powerful two hours. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at CinemaBlend.com (Alexandra Calamari)

FirstShowing.net (Ken Evans)

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New York Times (Manohla Dargis)

P.S. I Love You looks squeaky clean and utterly straight. Yet as directed by Richard LaGravenese, it has a curious morbid quality. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at New York Times (Manohla Dargis)

MovieWeb (Francine Brokaw)

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commonsensemedia.org (S. Jhoanna Robledo)

Romantic comedy is too tragic for all-out laughs. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at commonsensemedia.org (S. Jhoanna Robledo)

Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)

Hilary Swank owns two best-actress Oscars - for the transgender tragedy Boys Don't Cry, and for Clint Eastwood's distaff boxing pic Million Dollar Baby - and in my mind she deserves them both. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)

Reel.com

Several times a year, greeting cards clutter up athemantelâ��their words are filled with sentiment, but they don't really say anything and mean even less to others who idly pick them up, flip through them, and put them down without a second thought. P.S. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Reel.com

Detroit Free Press (John Monaghan)

Tone is everything in a movie like this, but writer-director Richard LaGravanese, working from a novel by Cecelia Ahern, can't decide between quirky indie dark comedy and laugh-a-minute TV sitcom. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Detroit Free Press (John Monaghan)

Houston Chronicle (Bobby Hankinson)

What's on your holiday wishlist? Is there room for a maudlin romantic comedy that brandishes its earnestness like tacky light displays synchronized to Trans-Siberian Orchestra? ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Houston Chronicle (Bobby Hankinson)

Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)

Pulling our strings is one thing; taking us for a fool is quite another. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)

WaffleMovies.com (Willie Waffle)

No one will confuse Hilary Swank with Lucille Ball, but she's entertaining enough to keep this one from becoming a gooey chick flick ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at WaffleMovies.com (Willie Waffle)

Chicago Tribune (Jessica Reaves)

You think youâ��ve got relationship problems? Clearly you havenâ��t met Holly Kennedy, who gets mail from her husband Gerry, a swaggering, hard-drinking, fun-loving, totally besotted romantic. Who has been dead for weeks. The letters, ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Chicago Tribune (Jessica Reaves)

Chicago Tribune (Geoff Berkshire)

When Gerry (Gerard Butler) dies of a sudden illness, his wife Holly (Hilary Swank) checks out of her life despite the moral support from her mom (Kathy Bates) and best friends (Lisa Kudrow, Gina Gershon). Then, on Hollyâ��s 30th birthday, letters from ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Chicago Tribune (Geoff Berkshire)

Hollywood.com

P.S. I Love You isnâ��t as pathetically sappy as the title might sound. OK, maybe it is a little, but the film is still a serviceable romantic flick guaranteed to produce sighs and tears. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Hollywood.com

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It must be tough to come up with a workable concept for a romantic comedy, now that most of the barriers to romance have been eliminated. Even so, the story line of "P.S. I Love You" is utterly ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Hilary Swank takes a break from Oscar-worthy roles with "P.S. I Love You," trading a serious edge for some romantic comedy. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)

In the grief-drenched romantic comedy P.S. I Love You , things are excruciatingly amiss, start to finish. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)

USA Today (Claudia Puig)

Some actors are better suited to straight-ahead dramas. Swank appears to be one of them. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at USA Today (Claudia Puig)

Seattle Times (Moira MacDonald)

The talented Swank is slumming a bit here, but she could -- and has -- done worse. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Seattle Times (Moira MacDonald)

Kansas City Star (Loey Lockerby)

The supporting roles are all handled well by experienced actors, and they have good material to work with. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Kansas City Star (Loey Lockerby)

Chicago Tribune (Jessica Reaves)

Snippets of sharp, witty dialogue are lost in a sea of sappy clichés and too-cute-for-words plot twists." ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Chicago Tribune (Jessica Reaves)

Christianity Today (Josh Hurst)

The movie is so bent on conjuring big, sweeping emotions that it becomes a bit scattershot, starting down way too many tear-jerking roads but never going down any of them far enough to discover any real substance. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Christianity Today (Josh Hurst)

The Deadbolt (Brian Tallerico)

Swank does her best, but she seems lost in the movie's identity crisis, taking the project seriously one moment and doing a pratfall off a karaoke stage the next. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at The Deadbolt (Brian Tallerico)

The Seattle Times (Moira Macdonald)

Hilary Swank's career thus far has been a fascinating blend of skyrocketing achievement and talent (two Oscars by the age of 30, for her dramatic, beautiful work in "Boys Don't Cry" and "Million Dollar Baby") mixed with thudding flops ("The Affair of the ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at The Seattle Times (Moira Macdonald)

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)

The end dedication (to the producer's late sister) reminds us that even a disposable commercial film can be extremely personal and meaningful for the people involved in its creation. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)

Deseret News, Salt Lake City (Jeff Vice)

P.S. I Love You commits several cinematic blunders, but the biggest one may be its attempt to turn Hilary Swank into a romantic lead. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Deseret News, Salt Lake City (Jeff Vice)

Groucho Reviews (Peter Canavese)

Butler, though puportedly attractive, gives a chipmunk-chipper performance that can only be described as supremely annoying. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Groucho Reviews (Peter Canavese)

kids-in-mind

Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler star as a couple that's just gotten married, when he's diagnosed with an incurable disease. When she becomes a widow and she struggles with coping with grief and with life on her own, she also begins receiving letters left ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at kids-in-mind

Mark Reviews Movies (Mark Dujsik)

Has its occasional oddball charms, but it is also ultimately conventional ... and pandering to go along with them. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Mark Reviews Movies (Mark Dujsik)

FilmStew.com (Telly Davidson)

Even though Lisa Kudrow and Gina Gershon are both way too old to be 29-year-old Holly�s best friends, they still provide welcome support. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at FilmStew.com (Telly Davidson)

Film Ireland

The best description I can give to my experience watching P.S. I Love You is being stuck in an elevator for two hours with the most mundane of music being piped incessantly into my surroundings and an unnerving feeling that the walls are encroaching on ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Film Ireland

ReelViews (James Berardinelli)

P.S. I Love You is the cinematic equivalent of a Celine Dion song. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)

The Movie Boy (Dustin Putman)

Although based on the novel by Cecilia Ahern, "P.S. I Love You" could just as well be a remake of any old romantic drama where tragedy strikes a relationship and the surviving person must learn how to bravely carry on through life without their loved one. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at The Movie Boy (Dustin Putman)

Eye for Film (Jennie Kermode)

What do women want? Gerry isn't sure, and it turns out, in time, that neither is his wife Holly. Neither, apparently, are the creators of this film, who have done their best to cater to every variant they can think of. The equivalent is rather like ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Eye for Film (Jennie Kermode)

Screen International

The lightweight Ghost-meets-Bridget Jones dramedy of Irish novelist Cecilia Ahern's PS, I Love You turns into forced romantic comedy in this miscast and largely Americanized screen version starring Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler. Interest in the film's ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Screen International

Variety (John Anderson)

In the film's long, long pre-credits opening, Gerry (Gerard Butler) performs a striptease as LaGravenese sets up his near-perfect marriage to Holly (Hilary Swank) that is about to be sabotaged by Gerry's yet-to-be-diagnosed brain tumor. As for Swank, ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Variety (John Anderson)

Bucket Reviews (Danny Baldwin)

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Fantastica Daily (Mervius)

The romantic parts, overreaching though they sometimes are, work better than the cutesy comedy moments. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Fantastica Daily (Mervius)

Newsday (Gene Seymour)

A mostly overheated farrago of sentiment, self-help and romantic cliche. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Newsday (Gene Seymour)

TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman)

Shifts between earnest melodrama and zany comedy without making much of an imprint as either...In all of her frequently breathtaking talent and depth, Hilary Swank deserves better than what P.S. I Love You has to offer. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman)

CineFile : il Cinema in Rete (Paola Cavallini)

Louise ha 39 anni, Ã¨ una bella donna, docente universitaria alla Columbia. Sta seguendo la selezione delle domande di ammissione dei nuovi studenti del suo corso. Un giorno arriva sul suo tavolo la domanda di un giovane, omonimo di un ragazzo che Louise ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at CineFile : il Cinema in Rete (Paola Cavallini)

The New York Times (Manohla Dargis)

It would be easy to dismiss â��P.S. I Love You,â�� about the agonies visited on a young married couple, as the big-screen equivalent of a paperback romance. Certainly the refined critical mind understands that this is the kind of artful emotion machine th ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at The New York Times (Manohla Dargis)

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Cathy Jakicic)

I found myself entertained, engaged and, occasionally, pleasantly surprised. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Cathy Jakicic)

Hollywood Reporter (Kirk Honeycutt)

At the moment, movie tearjerkers about late spouses who haunt loved ones are all the rage. In "Grace Is Gone," a father and two daughters cope with the loss of Mom in Iraq. In "Things We Lost in the Fire," a mother and two youngsters mourn the death ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Hollywood Reporter (Kirk Honeycutt)

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"Unfortunately, the movie wasn't as good as I had ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Atlanta Journal-Constitution

FilmJudge (David Mercier)

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efilmcritic.com (Peter Sobczynski)

After winning two Oscars for portraying characters who challenged traditional gender roles and wound up getting beaten to death for their troubles, I can understand why Hilary Swank might want to do a more traditional chick flick along the lines of her ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at efilmcritic.com (Peter Sobczynski)

Sacramento News & Review (Jim Lane)

[Hilary] Swank's raw, genuine performance stands out -- like an emerald on a compost heap -- against the canned warmth... ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Sacramento News & Review (Jim Lane)

ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)

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Empire Magazine [UK]

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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)

By mid-film I was praying for Clint Eastwood to show up and take Swank off life support. No such luck. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)

Screen It! (Jim Judy)

The film does have its share of funny, winning, and heartwarming/emotional moments, but the rest feel artificial and contrived, from the basic conceit to the various smaller elements that are too familiar and/or forced to elicit any sort of favorable resp ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Screen It! (Jim Judy)

Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)

The emotional tug is lost in uninspired dialogue, trite situations, and some plot twists that defy credulity while exploring the limits of tedious convention ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)

Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)

The single biggest problem with PS I LOVE YOU is that all the supporting characters are more interesting than Holly, the main character. This is as much a function of the writing as of the ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)

Metromix.com (Geoff Berkshire)

It's tough to believe that any leading lady could've done much with writer-director Richard LaGravenese's lackluster material. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Metromix.com (Geoff Berkshire)

Arizona Republic (Bill Goodykoontz)

What do you get when you stick a talented, interesting cast in an uninspiring chick flick? Short answer: P.S. I Love You . ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Arizona Republic (Bill Goodykoontz)

Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)

This weeper that can't wring out tears. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)

filmcritic.com (Jason Morgan)

more of a waste of time than an enjoyed vicarious journey ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at filmcritic.com (Jason Morgan)

Metromix.com (Matt Pais)

P.P.S. Don't you hate bad romantic comedies? ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Metromix.com (Matt Pais)

efilmcritic.com (Peter Sobczynski)

It feels like the kind of project that Meg Ryan would have turned down back in the 90's for being just a little too hackneyed and cliched for its own good. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at efilmcritic.com (Peter Sobczynski)

Maxim (Pete Hammond)

If you're looking for a great date movie so you can get laid over the holidays, this is the one. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Maxim (Pete Hammond)

Pop Syndicate (Stefan Halley)

a weary, syrupy romantic comedy about moving on that takes much too long to move on. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Pop Syndicate (Stefan Halley)

Film Journal International (David Noh)

Things soon degenerate into forced whimsy and uninspired romantic formula. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Film Journal International (David Noh)

Washington Post (Desson Thomson)

If P.S. I Love You proves anything, it's that Hilary Swank may be a great actress, but she can't do cute. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Washington Post (Desson Thomson)

E! Online (Matt Stephens)

The film's cutesy, high-concept premise strains credibility, and the sitcommy situations (see Swank fall off the stage while performing sexy karaoke!) never quite jive with attempts at poignancy. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at E! Online (Matt Stephens)

Associated Press (Christy Lemire)

P.S. I Love You is as treacly as the title would suggest. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Associated Press (Christy Lemire)

RopeofSilicon (Brad Brevet)

The first picture to truly disappoint me this year is P.S. I Love You. I was so ready to champion this film as the romantic comedy of the year. It had a wonderful trailer, a terrific idea and what appeared to be the unlikely cast to pull it all off. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at RopeofSilicon (Brad Brevet)

The Denver Post

Oscar winner Hilary Swank reteams with her "Freedom Writers" writer-director, Richard LaGravenese, for a wistful romance that they both should have had the sense to avoid, "P.S. I Love ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at The Denver Post

Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)

FYI, there's zero chemistry between P.S. I Love You 's two commodified headliners. ...read the complete P.S. I Love You movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Lisa Schwarzbaum)