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The Lucky One

2012

Scott Hicks

Zac Efron, Taylor Schilling, Blythe Danner, Riley Thomas Stewart ...

5.1

7,311

Romance. Drama Logan (Zac Efron) is a US marine who returns to North Carolina after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman named Beth (Taylor Schilling) he believes was his good luck charm during the war. Another Nicholas Sparks' novel adaptation.

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Scott Hicks (can it have been 16 years since Shine?) serves up this treacly tale with absolutely no trace of self-consciousness about the material's cliches or simple-mindedness"	NEG
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The sun breaks through the clouds, you smile through your tears, and your cynicism - even the tiny voice in your head crying out, 'Wait, none of this makes any sense!' - is silenced by sweet music and swelling sentiment"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"If you've ever liked a Nicholas Sparks movie, you're likely to enjoy this one (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'The Lucky One' doesn't have a genuine emotion in it or a plausible reason to endure it. It's strictly for the sisters of the cult of Sparks and the men who love them (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"A sudsy romantic melodrama that in the 1950s would have been directed with lurid overkill by the likes of Douglas Sirk (...) Rating: ★½ (out of four)"	NEG

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