Adapted from a novel by Ben Sherwood, and starring Zac Efron and Amanda Crew, Charlie St. Cloud is a passably effective melodrama that should play like catnip to its
star’s core female audience but hardly anyone else. An inoffensive,
worshipfully photographed, yet at times dramatically stolid
interpretation of swelling adolescent feeling, the movie wrings maximum
consequence out of Efron’s dewy-eyed, cherry-lipped pin-up
sensitivity. For the full review, from Screen International, click here. (Universal, PG-13, 99 minutes)