Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Forget art, or even craft: This is the kind of movie that can't even get its shameless audience-pandering in order.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
As a romantic weepie, not bad. As a drama about a disabled man, possibly offensive.

Name : Mara Reinstein / Alias : Us Weekly
The fault is not in our stars. In breakout performances, Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin are magnetic as soulmates doomed by a Dire Medical Prognosis.

Name : Kate Clark / Alias : Seattle Times
Overall, the film is sweet but often loses impact in its most serious moments by blasting a happy pop soundtrack.

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
Jojo Moyes adapted her own best-selling book, which helps give Me Before You a singular inviting vibe instead of feeling like The Fault in Our Stars 2.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Shameless in every way imaginable, Me Before You milks the pathos for all it's worth, but milks the comedy, too.

Name : Tony Hicks / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
Moyes and director Thea Sharrock kept the love story too shallow to be really intriguing. They seem to have forgotten that great romantic films don't have to be pretty, and have skimmed the story of any real human ugliness .

Name : Alison Willmore / Alias : BuzzFeed News
Isn't that romantic? No, it's really not.

Name : Kate Lloyd / Alias : Time Out
This adaptation of Jojo Moyes's best-seller (scripted by the novelist herself) might have the structure of a comfort-food weepie, but it's a rom-com with brains.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
It's not perfect - there are times when the pacing is off and the epilogue tries too hard to end things on a positive note - but it's effective and affecting.

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
The only real acting in this movie comes from Janet McTeer and Charles Dance as Will's aggrieved parents. They bring some ballast to this blubberfest.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
Fans of the best-selling novel by Jojo Moyes will be heartened to hear that she wrote the screenplay, too, and that she has preserved all the lines that - when read aloud - will provide much mirth at your next dinner party.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
It's intriguing to see the bits of ambitious ethical weightiness mingled with the movie's gloss.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
A recent screening of "Me Before You" concluded with audible sniffles and even a sob or two. Why not gales of laughter or quiet snores? These are the mysteries that trouble a critic's uneasy mind.

Name : Jocelyn Noveck / Alias : Associated Press
The filmmakers seem to have missed an opportunity to deal in a sophisticated way with a thorny, important subject. Still, you'll probably cry anyway. It's that kind of film.

Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
Me Before You is not without punishment, but it's so well made that it survives every drawback.

Name : Linda Barnard / Alias : Toronto Star
Not everyone will be rooting around for a fresh supply of tissues.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
Clarke's sparkle is similar to when Julia Roberts graced the screen in "Pretty Woman." Get used to her, she'll be around for awhile.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
The plot is filled with cliches and the attempt at the bigger picture - the value of a life - is muddy at best. You may find the film courageous, but you're more likely to find it . sad.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
Unfortunately, this ultra-glossy romantic drama derived from a best seller twists into very dark territory - a drastic tonal shift that neither its stars nor debuting director, Thea Sharrock, a respected stage veteran, manage with dramatic credibility.

Name : Joe Dziemianowicz / Alias : New York Daily News
The film becomes a testament to the transcendent power of love - but not in the way you expect.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Me Before You is a beautifully filmed and well-intentioned weeper marred by an unfortunate performance from one of the leads, and a plot development that leaves us more angry and frustrated than moved in the final act.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
A sort-of romance, liberally sprinkled with moments of corniness and emotional dishonesty.

Name : Andrew Barker / Alias : Variety
These are deep, complicated issues the film wades into, and it quickly winds up out of its depth.

Name : Sheri Linden / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Far too much of this high-gloss tearjerker proceeds as a by-the-numbers romantic fantasy, nudging the viewer every step of the way.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
It may not quite rise to the level of a classic three-hankie tearjerker, but it's proof that sometimes one or two hankies is more than enough to get the job done.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
A sob story that averts its eyes when things get uncomfortable about the tangle of sex and frustration. Still, you can't blame audiences for being seduced by two shining young stars.

Name : Bruce Kirkland / Alias : Toronto Sun
Me Before You will jerks some tears, maybe even from cynics.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
Keeping any reality out of this love story does audiences - and people with handicaps - no favors. After all, kisses do sometimes need to be flavored with a few tears.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
Clarke has loads of talent, but in Me Before You she's undermined by director Sharrock's technique, and an endless slew of overeager reaction shots.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
I can't recommend this movie to anyone older than high school age.

Name : Connie Ogle / Alias : Miami Herald
Me Before You is a juicy, ripe red apple of a romance with a razor blade embedded under its skin.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : TIME Magazine
A harmless enough entry in the "adorable mite tames surly masculine beast" romantic-weeper genre, hitting all the right beats with the clink of an expertly struck cowbell.

Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
Clarke is endearing, but verges on mugging. Claflin is at his best when Will gives in to his competitive urges, which happens exactly once.

Name : Julia Cooper / Alias : Globe and Mail
This film cost $20-million to make and, at its heart, is a glossy, live-action Beauty and the Beast, with a quadriplegic in the role of non-human animal.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
"Central Intelligence" is one of those slick, gunplay-riddled, stupidly plotted, aggressively loud buddy movies - so formulaic and dumb, even if you see it you'll probably forget you've seen it by the end of the year.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
You go along for the ride because Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson promise something they can't deliver: a movie as funny as they are.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
Johnson and Hart are performers of trustworthy charisma, but their personal appeal hits its limits when they are recruited to perform in a film that is hard to sit through.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
Johnson and Hart actually do have potential as a comic duo - better than Ice Cube and Hart in the already stale Ride Along franchise - but Central Intelligence isn't smart enough to make the most of their pairing.

Name : David Sims / Alias : The Atlantic
If you're a fan of either Hart or Johnson's usual movie shtick, Central Intelligence is just about fun enough to recommend.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : Village Voice
Central Intelligence won't blow you out of the theater, but you might be surprised at how well it works - how genuinely funny it is - given the familiarity of this concept.

Name : Joe Dziemianowicz / Alias : New York Daily News
Yes, the appealing mismatched megastars earn their paychecks with game performances. But other than an occasional zinger hitting the mark, laughs are in short supply.

Name : Jeannette Catsoulis / Alias : New York Times
An odd-couple caper of staggering dopeyness that makes you long for the snap and sizzle of the buddy movies of the 1980s, "Central Intelligence" is a clean-out-the-fridge soup of celebrity cameos and C.I.A. confusion.

Name : Bruce Kirkland / Alias : Toronto Sun
I like Central Intelligence, even when it is being stupid.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
A shambolic high-concept farce that doubles as a cautionary tale of where studio comedies go wrong.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Hart and Johnson make a terrific team, though it's the latter who really shines in this action-comedy.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
There's literally nothing unloveable about Johnson's performance - think peak-form John Candy trapped in the body of, well, The Rock.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
This has a pretty good laugh quotient as far as big-budget action comedies go.

Name : Sara Stewart / Alias : New York Post
We're here for the Johnson and Hart show, and they deliver.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Los Angeles Times
"Central Intelligence" is dumb in all the right ways, and also a bit smarter than you might expect.

Name : Stephanie Zacharek / Alias : TIME Magazine
No one can steal the show from Johnson and Hart. Their dual rhythms, alternately laid back and hyperactive, end up in a glorious and ridiculous kind of syncopation, unicornlike in its rarity and oddness.

Name : Chris Klimek / Alias : NPR
What Central Intelligence lacks in depth or inventiveness, it makes up for in personality, steaming along on the robust comic rapport between Johnson and Hart.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
"Central Intelligence" won't win any points for originality, but that doesn't make it any less funny.

Name : Alison Willmore / Alias : BuzzFeed News
The film has a firm grasp of Johnson's appeal as a leading man: He is Hollywood's most imposing ray of sunshine.

Name : Owen Gleiberman / Alias : Variety
It delivers - on some basic, giddy, turn-off-your-frontal-lobes level. It's an action-comedy utensil, like "Rush Hour" crossed with an old Arnold Schwarzenegger shoot-'em-up, with a few goofy added sprinkles of "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion."

Name : Lindsey Bahr / Alias : Associated Press
Central Intelligence, a buddy action-comedy starring Kevin Hart and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, doesn't pack many big laughs, but it is likely to keep a smile on your face for the duration.

Name : Tirdad Derakhshani / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Central Intelligence is actually funny.

Name : Barry Hertz / Alias : Globe and Mail
A buddy comedy that's pleasant enough without ever reaching the full comic heights that Johnson's casting implicitly promises.

Name : Matthew Lickona / Alias : San Diego Reader
The eventual resolution is entirely too neat 'n tidy in light of the (sometimes funny) crazy that precedes it: what began as a dark comedy finishes as a cheerful action drama.

Name : Jon Frosch / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
It capitalizes on the chemistry between Hart and Johnson, who convey what seems like genuine delight in each other's company - something that gives this bromantic diversion a giddy kick.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
Johnson brings the funny. Underneath all that muscle, a comedy star is wrestling to get out, and he's finally emerged.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
With its canned, predictable action sequences and mirthless attempts at humor, it displays an ineptitude that is frankly shocking considering the talent involved.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
A mostly dumb but often weirdly sweet action comedy about bullies, high-school friendships and grown men who still love John Hughes movies. Oh, and who happen to be spies.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
Painless, strained, occasionally amusing, and utterly disposable - just another studio buddy comedy/action movie that forgot where it put the script.

Name : Richard Brody / Alias : New Yorker
The window-smashing and car-crashing offer some giddy surprises, but the ridiculous yet bland gunplay is as generic as the setup.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
The blend of Johnson's laid-back hero-dudeness and Hart's whippet-fast comic timing should have been good fun. But somebody, alas, had an idea, though not a good one: Make Johnson the comedian and Hart the straight man.

Name : Joey Nolfi / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
The hows and whys of the quest at hand aren't exactly important, as Central Intelligence is far more concerned with squeezing its leading men together-often literally-and kicking back to enjoy the juice, and that's a wise move.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
It's a trip we've been on before. Johnson and Hart make the journey a little more pleasant than it could have been.