Love in the Time of Cholera (film) average score of 44 out of 100, based on 27 reviews. "Time" rated it "D" and described it as "a serious contender [for] the worst movie ever made from a great novel ... Skip the film; reread the book." In her review in "Entertainment Weekly", Lisa Schwarzbaum also rated it "D" and called it a "turgid and lifeless movie adaptation", opining that "those who have read Gabriel García Márquez's glowing and sexy 1988 novel about one man's grand love for a woman who marries another are bound to be peevishly disappointed ... those who haven't read the book will now
Love on the Dole a policeman's truncheon. After Larry Meath's death, Sally despondently succumbs to the attentions of Sam Grundy, which allows both her father and brother finally to find work. The novel received much attention from writers, journalists, and politicians, who were all moved by its description of poverty, but, more importantly, by its account of a working-class community attempting to deal with that poverty with dignity and intelligence. Reviewing the American edition of the novel, Iris Barry wrote that, ""Love on the Dole" is the real thing." Edith Sitwell, for example, also wrote "I do not know when I have been so