That hypothetical scenario is enough to choke anyone up, but it’s the true story that inspired The Vow and was brought to life by Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams.

Full Review | Oct 23, 2023

A paint-by-numbers romance yet it is a paint-by-numbers romance that will work for those who surrender to it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

Rachel McAdams cruises merrily through The Vow as if she's humouring her co-star, the script and the audience.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2019

The chemistry between the two leads is severely hampered because they aren't really together on screen that much. Instead, we get the parental subplot that completely undermines everything.

Full Review | Apr 13, 2019

There are some scenes where it is miraculous that Tatum and McAdams were able to remain upright, what with the huge nuggets of guilty-pleasure gold unceremoniously plonked in their way.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 19, 2018

Rita, is also excellent if a little underdeveloped. Sadly, the rest of the cast are totally unremarkable and forgettable as a gaggle of clichés and stereotypes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 24, 2018

It's not trying to make you cry; but your heart will feel a little warmer when it ends.

Full Review | Aug 23, 2018

The Vow plays out as a rather predictable and earnest drama.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2017

After a cringe-worthy first third, The Vow does manage to hit a decent rom-com stride, exploring the sheer arbitrariness of self-realization.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2016

The film isn't as bad as what it looks like--the Chinatown knockoff equivalent of a Nicholas Sparks movie--but that doesn't mean that those outside the target audience won't find it a painful experience.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Aug 15, 2013

Like a less successful version of The Notebook, this works as an undemanding date movie; just don't expect much more from it.

Full Review | Mar 4, 2013

Ultimately the vision of love and marriage that is being presented here is a fairly routine, secular one, that it is love that binds us to a vow and not the other way around.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 7, 2012

"The Vow" might have been a decent film had the filmmakers taken the time to allow the characters to develop, or perhaps even if a better actor was cast in the lead.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 16, 2012

Thankfully The Vow spares us from all of that shakey-camera'd nonsense, but that's about all it spares us from.

Full Review | Original Score: 5.5/10 | Sep 15, 2012

The Vow presents some fascinating challenges for Leo and Paige, yet without fail the screenplay comes up short in allowing them to overcome the obstacles in their paths.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Aug 17, 2012

The 2004 Adam-Sandler-Drew Barrymore comedy 50 First Dates played retrograde amnesia for laughs, but The Vow, loosely inspired by the experiences of real-life couple Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, aims strictly for the tear ducts.

Full Review | Jul 17, 2012

The film is almost awe-inspiring in its unabashed embrace of a love so all-encompassing that Paige even treasures Leo's flatulence. (Seriously -- she rolls up the car window so the smell won't escape.)

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 11, 2012

So full of trite phrases, clichéd moments and uncool coolness (she has a tattoo on her back!), it's mind-wiping. I vow to forgive this movie, just to forget it faster.

Full Review | May 10, 2012

Execution is what really matters in B-movies, and as silly as it sounds, The Vow is a remarkably restrained, sweet little movie that never tugs so hard it becomes annoying.

Full Review | Original Score: 87/100 | Apr 29, 2012

Neither particularly romantic nor comedic, nonetheless represents a middling love story that should suit most of its intended audience relying on the chemistry of its stars.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Apr 16, 2012