Rotten
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.
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
A Lot Like Love
There's nothing better than a great romance... to ruin a perfectly good friendship.
2005 · 1h 47m · PG-13
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Nigel Cole
Overview
On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to close friends to... lovers?
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
41%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The only reason I was rooting for them to get together was that than they would both be off the market.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Fresh
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.
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
A pleasant little romantic comedy that doesn't try too hard and has the virtue of doing a few things differently.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Fresh
A Lot Like Love ... is a cute movie.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
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