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John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: A throwaway date movie, but with enough quirky touches to almost make it worth recommending. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: A Lot Like Love is built around a string of coincidences, accidents and unlikely situations that send your eyes rolling in their sockets like marbles. Read more
Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune: Most offensive are not these ridiculous and contrived rendezvous, but the notion that from them is supposed to come a true friendship, one that may or may not slip into the big l-o-v-e. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: A Lot Like Love ... is a cute movie. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: An unfortunate casting decision, however, comes close to sabotaging a witty script with fresh insights into the trend of young people postponing marriage while waiting for some grand plan of theirs to materialize. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: The only reason I was rooting for them to get together was that than they would both be off the market. Read more
Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: With less fluff and more funk than is usual for the genre, Kutcher and Peet make surprisingly appealing foils for each other. Read more
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: It's a beguiling little romance that moves ahead with a smart, refreshing charm. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The producers of this stillborn romantic comedy are betting there are many more college girls than there are testy movie critics, and they're doubtless correct. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Kutcher is surprisingly well cast as the awkward, somewhat dorky Oliver, and Peet is charming and charismatic without being cloying or artificial. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: It's a lot like a waste of time. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: It's a lot like a romantic comedy, except that it's not remotely romantic or even mildly funny. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A Lot Like Love is a lot like a romantic comedy, except that all that's keeping these two kids apart is the trivially insufferable movie they're in. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: We're supposed to feel that they're made for each other, in the When Harry Met Sally vein, but we never feel the chemistry. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: It's a movie by and for folks who've been around the relationship block a time or two. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: A Lot Like Love sags and droops into the shape of a movie that's too much like every other conventional romantic comedy that loses its cool. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: A Lot Like Love would be so much closer to perfect if it sustained its idiosyncratic tone. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Kutcher is a master of the satisfied grin. It's one of his two expressions, the other being the goofy, ear-to-ear smile, which often follows or precedes his satisfied grin. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet star as a would-be couple in a pleasant romantic comedy without arty aspirations or low-brow yucks. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Just when you despair that a whole generation could grow up without a decent date movie, without a romantic comedy that works well enough to call its own, Ashton Kutcher goes and surprises you. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: A pleasant little romantic comedy that doesn't try too hard and has the virtue of doing a few things differently. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The movie is 95 minutes long, and neither character says a single memorable thing. You've heard of being too clever by half? Ollie and Emily are not clever enough by three-quarters. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: This is the kind of movie where the lovers don't have to worry about fate keeping them apart -- all they do is manufacture excuses not to be together, because if they didn't, you wouldn't have a movie. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The bottom line in any teen date movie is: Do they make a cute couple? Actually, cute is what they do best. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Too often, the script collapses into what feels like improvisation, in which the characters find a kind of common ground: Infantilism. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: A Lot Like Love is a lot like many other movies of the rom-com ilk, in that we are left with absolutely no doubt about the outcome. Read more
Brian Lowry, Variety: A lot like any number of romantic comedies, but there should always be room for another good one. Read more
Ben Kenigsberg, Village Voice: The chemistry between diaper salesman Ashton Kutcher and photo hound Amanda Peet is so off that the pairing scans as an alienation effect. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: A lot like love? Hardly. Would you believe, maybe, a little like mild indifference? Read more