Question: 1. *There's nothing about The Notebook that isn't either lazy or dismissive of its audience.
2. A fine tale that will leave romantics everywhere misty eyed.
3. A thoughtful, emotionally rich film in which we see that great love, like deep faith, is forged on doubt, trials, and hardships. Only then does it deliver its deepest rewards.
4. A sentimental film filled with flashbacks and clichés.
5. ... one gets the sense that director Nick Cassevetes and writer Jan Sardi would spray the audience with teargas if they could.
6. I cannot believe I'm about to recommend a movie as clogged with melodramatic treacle as Nick Cassavetes' adaptation of The Notebook.
7. Whether someone can enjoy The Notebook or not depends much of the mood in which the viewers find themselves.
8. Um romance sensível e emocionante que leva o espectador a se importar com o destino de seus tocantes personagens.
9. Two parts idiotic romance, one part offensive melodrama.
10. It's an interesting piece of counter programming on New Line's part, the only question is why didn't it go direct to cable?
Consensus: It's hard not to admire its unabashed sentimentality, but The Notebook is too clumsily manipulative to rise above its melodramatic clichés.
1. Mr. Bean's diagnosis of Jewish self-hatred in The Believer may be misdirected in the present circumstances.
2. Valiente cinta, bien lograda y de soberbia actuación, aunque el tema será muy cuestionado y habrá quien la cuestione por lidiar con las temáticas de lo injustificable.
3. Gosling's performance at times achieves a Nietzschean grandeur.
4. An amazing and incendiary movie that dives straight into the rough waters of contradiction.
5. Definitely worth seeing.
6. It hits a few false notes when it overplays the violence committed by Danny's skinhead sidekicks, but most of the movie is chillingly understated, if that's the right term for such a heart-stopping narrative.
7. Gosling creates a staggeringly compelling character, a young man whose sharp intellect is at the very root of his contradictory, self-hating, self-destructive ways.
8. It is a challenging film, if not always a narratively cohesive one.
9. This fiery and imperfect feature shines as a demonstration of independent filmmaking at its most uncompromising.
10. A bad movie -- really a terrible movie -- with a daring idea behind it.
Consensus: Gosling commands the screen with a raw, electrifying performance.
1. Makes one wonder if Delpy isn't unconsciously working through some residual, latent anger at Before Sunset co-star Ethan Hawke.
2. Though very much in the vein of Woody Allen 70s comedies and showing influence of mentor Richard Linklater, this personal walking-and-talking dramedy expresses a distinct female POV, with Delpy the writer-helmer more critical of the femme than the man.
3. French actress/writer/director Julie Delpy ("Before Sunset") fails miserably with this Paris-set romantic farce where American girly-man Jack (Adam Goldberg) learns to loathe his slutty bipolar girlfriend Marion (Delpy).
4. Fortunately for all parties involved, Delpy goes beyond the mere comedy of embarrassment, though to be sure there is plenty of that as well.
5. A pair with good chemistry who are ultimately mismatched--he a neurotic New Yorker and she a man-hungry Parisian--make for solid comedy entertainment.
6. The best thing about 2 Days in Paris: It's self-absorbed yet unselfconscious. In other words, Delpy doesn't take herself too seriously.
7. ...an impressive, funny urban comedy of manners from a suitably distinctive voice that I hope we'll hear again soon.
8. First off, you have to like complainers, otherwise Adam Goldberg will drive you nuts.
9. If Woody Allen's neurotic Alvy and Diane Keaton's Annie in Annie Hall had borne children it's a good bet they would have turned out like Marion (Julie Delpy) and Jack (Adam Goldberg) in 2 Days in Paris.
10. Delpy makes mistakes in this film by providing unnecessary narration... and assumptions about the audience from politics to sexual awareness

Answer: Consensus: Delpy proves not only to be an adept actress, but makes her mark as a writer and director in this thought-provoking comedy that breaks the romantic comedy mold.