Dear John

“Dear John carefully distills selected elements of human experience and reduces them to a sweet and digestible syrup. It may not be strong medicine, but it delivers an effective, pleasing dose of pure sentiment and vicarious heartache.”

A.O. Scott, The New York Times · 70

“I'm fully prepared to hear people write off Dear John as corny, sappy, a movie for chicks. But I'd counter that Hallström's old-fashioned idealism about art and emotion is the more important quality shining through Dear John.”

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon · 70

“Fulfills its mission, which is to be a crowd-pleasing tearjerker.”

Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch · 63

“There's an audience for old-fashioned romance, and Dear John will please most of it.”

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald · 63

“The biggest surprise here is Tatum, whose butch reticence has never been put to better use: His saddest farewell isn’t to his lady, but to a man even more uncommunicative than he is.”

Melissa Anderson, Village Voice · 60