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34 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasElegantly scripted by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Auburn, The Lake House never establishes any clear rules about how and when these strands of time can intertwine, but it succeeds at forging a bond between people who only know each other on the page.
- 63ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliI am conflicted about this film. I like the fact that it takes chances. I appreciate that it's trying to do a supernatural love story without falling into the schmaltz of "Ghost." Yet I recognize that the screenplay is like Swiss cheese - riddled with hole.
- 63New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsThe time-warp romantic fantasy The Lake House is a puzzle that is maddeningly obtuse, emotionally overstretched, and virtually absent a sense of interior logic.
- 50VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerNever quite sure what it wants to be -- a magical-mysterious love story, a psychodrama, a sprawling family saga, or an uneasy combination of these.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenA slow-moving, never-igniting tale of calendar-crossed lovers that grows less convincing as it proceeds.
- 50L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorBy herself, Bullock isn't enough to hold up this enervating movie, which lumbers along ponderously until, at the end, it takes a giant leap into the suspension of disbelief that lost me altogether.
- 50Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneThis is a project whose elements, from concept to script to casting, refuse to follow the usual formulas, which is good, yet they never quite cohere.
- 50Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerChristian Science MonitorPeter RainerThere is a germ of a good idea in the notion that an imaginary suitor can be more powerful than a real one. But director Alejandro Agresti isn't the man to pull it off.
- 40Village VoiceMark HolcombVillage VoiceMark HolcombTreading the same supernatural turf trampled by "Somewhere in Time" and "Frequency," director Alejandro Agresti's gooey, ostensibly spooky romance yarn The Lake House flounders less on its thudding familiarity than on its mood- killing dourness.
- 40Austin ChronicleAustin ChronicleDon't try to figure out a time-travel movie, it will make your head hurt. And if the movie stars Keanu Reeves, all the more reason to just stop, slowly put common sense on the ground, and back away from your capacity for rational thought.