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- 01:40 AM, Mar 29
You know exactly what's coming before it arrivesby Sean O'Connell [Filmcritic.com ]
To watch "The Last Song" is to feel a little sorry for Nicholas Sparksby Mick LaSalle [San Francisco Chronicle ]
the movie is likely to delight sad young girls and bore bitter old criticsby Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger ]
strictly genericby Sandra Hall [Sydney Morning Herald ]
so sentimental that you'll need a hanky -- or a package of Kleenex if you're a teen girlby Jon Bream [Minneapolis Star Tribune ]
Last Song is an awfully long and tiresome tuneby Bruce DeMara [Toronto Star ]
It's not a great filmby Roger Moore [Orlando Sentinel ]
It's a party in the USAby Wesley Morris [Boston Globe ]
it can't manage to sort through its various issues in any dramatically compelling wayby A.O. Scott [NY Times ]
almost laughably maudlinby Jeff Vice [Deseret News ]
All the obvious elements combine to manipulate the audience into a weepy time at the moviesby Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
a weeperby Connie Ogle [Miami Herald ]
"Last Song" is one of those maudlin romantic melodramas you just can't warn folks offby Michael Ordona [LA Times ]