REVIEW ROUNDUP: 'THE LAKE HOUSE' (LAT, NYT, RT)
By Stephen Saito
Critics are either enchanted or decidedly not with �The Lake House,� the Sandra Bullock-Keanu Reeves romance which features the premise of a mailbox where love letters are passed two years apart. Here are some excerpts:
The New York Times' A.O. Scott writes:
The contrivances of the plot, which may require occasional glances at a multiyear date book, are smoothly handled by David Auburn's script and by Mr. Agresti's direction. Visually, "The Lake House" is elegant without being terribly showy, with a connoisseur's eye for Chicago's architectural glories. But 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.
The Los Angeles Times' Carina Chocano writes:
Directed by Alejandro Agresti ("Valent�n") and written by David Auburn ("Proof"), "The Lake House" is 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, so it's never really explained how Alex is supposed to catch up to Kate, how it was that they were once on the same plane but got separated, or how it is, with so many naturally occurring obstacles to love existing in the real world, anyone thought this would make a good premise.
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