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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: This wan, by-the-numbers romantic comedy, which marks the directorial debut of screenwriter Susannah Grant, is so superficial and formulaic that even Garner's mega-watt grin can't completely save it. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Forgettable seriocomic blather from writer-director Susannah Grant. Read more
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: Jennifer Garner may possess the hardest working eyebrows in show business, but Kevin Smith gets the acting kudos in this bittersweet romance. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: The film suffers from a style that settles for pleasant or touching at the cost of spontaneous or impassioned. Too bad, because Ms. Garner is a genuinely pleasing presence. Read more
Ted Fry, Seattle Times: There's barely anything new in this well-designed, prettily shot piece of fluff hewn from the realm of tragic-comic romance immemorial. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: Susannah Grant's movie is rough around the edges, but once you get used to the laconic pace, the plot grooves along nicely. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Jennifer Garner leads an enormously appealing cast as the bride who wore black. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Catch & Release? Nah. Try Net & Forget. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The film's a pleasant enough daydream before it turns all squoodgy at the end. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: Neither a comedy nor a drama but existing in that comfortable space in between, Catch and Release, the feature-directing debut of screenwriter Susannah Grant, is an oddly appealing, if innocuous, movie of considerable charm. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: A romantic comedy-drama with little comedy, no drama and less romance than your average YouTube video. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: A noteworthy mess for the sheer mass of talent it squanders, Catch and Release is best not caught. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: I just don't know any chick who will make sense of this flick -- it's that blitheringly out of touch with present psychosexual (never mind feminist) time and space. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: There are some interesting, if less than original, ideas stuck between all the comic banter and the unlikely romantic relationship you see coming a mile away, but the film never finds a way to marry the less-than-convincing melodrama with the melancholy. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: This fish-themed romance flops wildly all over the place, from heavy poignant moments to slapsticky comedy, with a healthy dose of soapy melodrama in between. Read more
John Hartl, Newsweek: Garner and [writer/director] Grant work hard to push the picture into unexplored territory, and the cringe-worthy moments are easy to overlook. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Catch and Release has a magazine-spread polish that sometimes tricks you into thinking that it's a more distinctive romantic comedy than it actually is. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Every time [Kevin Smith] comes on screen, he perks things up a little. He makes the time pass faster, and the flaws recede. He turns what might be a forgettable movie into a halfway decent one. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: A film that a talented veteran of romantic comedy would have had trouble pulling off, let alone a screenwriter (Susannah Grant wrote Erin Brockovich) who has never directed a film before. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: The chick comedy-drama Catch and Release may look bland, but it's not. It's worse. To rise to the level of blandness, it would need to have a few gallons of Tabasco dumped into it. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Catch and Release is a perfectly likable romantic tragi-comedy, and therein lies the problem. If the essence of drama and comedy is conflict, what do you get when you wash the conflict away in an effort to make everybody 'likable'? Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: However diverting are Garner, Smith and the scenery, the ricochet-romance aspect of Grant's film is, frankly, icky. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Despite possessing a few effective and affecting scenes, Catch and Release is a mess and the methods it uses to bring closure to its diverse storylines feel trite and contrived. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: One of those movies where the small pleasures stack up high enough to dwarf the disappointments. Read more
Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: The romantic dramedy Catch and Release is off the mark in so many respects one wonders if it would have been more humane to release this one directly into the DVD stream. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Were it not for [Kevin] Smith's mildly amusing antics, it might have been necessary to attach a warning to the movie about the dangers of watching it whilst operating heavy machinery. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: A romantic non-comedy. Read more
Lael Loewenstein, Variety: Deals with serious issues -- sudden death, grief, infidelity, deception -- in a fairly lighthearted way. What makes that worse is that there are a few moments when the film actually approaches some kind of emotional or dramatic truth. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Despite the film's attempts to imbue Garner with spark, she simply disappears into the supporting pack in a film that doesn't know if it's rom-coming or going. Read more