The Longest Ride

...it has its fleeting moments of low-key likability.

However contrived this tenth Sparks-to-screen becomes, the emotions and chemistry outweigh the bull.

Like all of Sparks’s stories it’s corny as hell, but there’s an unabashed, old-fashioned charm that gradually warms the cockles and moistens the eye.

...an unlikely romance is challenged by dubious (or even better, insane) plot twists that all the same allow for a happily-ever-after-enough ending.