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Metascore®52 out of 100 | Mixed or average reviews

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    What I respond to in the movie is its fundamental romantic impulse. Read full review

  • 75
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Scott Tobias

    Elegantly 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. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    The movie is, above all, a showcase for its stars, who seem gratifyingly comfortable in their own skin and delighted to be in each other's company again, in another deeply silly, effortlessly entertaining movie. Read full review

  • 63
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    I 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. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Sheri Linden

    A slow-moving, never-igniting tale of calendar-crossed lovers that grows less convincing as it proceeds. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Carina Chocano

    A chronological brain-teaser confounding enough to keep you busy trying to figure out whether those holes are in the story or in your logic. But ultimately the movie is more interested in the love part of the equation than in the whole crazy, madcap physics part. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    Never quite sure what it wants to be -- a magical-mysterious love story, a psychodrama, a sprawling family saga, or an uneasy combination of these. Read full review

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    The only real magic in The Lake House is that Kate and Alex have never heard of e-mail. Read full review

  • 40
    Village Voice | Mark Holcomb

    Treading 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. Read full review

  • 38
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    One of the more befuddling movies of recent years. The premise makes no sense, no matter how you turn it around in your head. Read full review

Avg. Fan Rating:
Average Rating = 3.8 out of 5

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