The Notebook - Recensies

Thank goodness, then, for the magic created by young stars Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, whose intense romance is played out with conviction and an infectious joie de vivre.

Rachel McAdams, who just a few months ago was the bitchy high school queen in Mean Girls, here shows such beauty and clarity that we realize once again how actors are blessed by good material.

I think it was somewhere in the middle of a rain-swept declaration of love that I let out a soft little mew – I think you know the kind I’m talking about – that mew of pleasure at finding oneself happily ensconced in glorious weepie land.