Editing An Affair to Remember (section)

===Critical reaction===
[[Bosley Crowther]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' found the early part of the film fairly enjoyable, with "plenty of humorous conversation that is handled crisply" by the leads, but concluded that the picture goes wrong after the couple disembarks, writing: "The marriage pact seems ridiculously childish for a couple of adult people to make. The lady's failure to notify her fiancé of her accident seems absurd. The fact that the man does not hear of it in some way is beyond belief. And the slowness with which he grasps the obvious when he calls upon the lady is just too thick."<ref>{{cite news |last=Crowther |first=Bosley |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/07/20/archives/the-screen-an-affair-to-remember-stewart-granger-stars-in-gun-glory.html |date=July 20, 1957 |title=The Screen: 'An Affair to Remember' |work=[[The New York Times]] |page=8 }}</ref> [[Richard L. Coe]] of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' agreed, writing that the film "boasts early amusing reels that ultimately become unbelievably foolish in the quest for audience tears."<ref>{{cite news |last=Coe |first=Richard L. |date=July 27, 1957 |title=Love, Sweat — And Tears |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |page=D7 }}</ref> ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' disagreed, calling the romance "never maudlin" and "wholly believable" in a positive review of what it called "a winning film" with "all the ingredients that should make it an ideal women's picture."<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/variety207-1957-07/page/n203/mode/2up |date=July 17, 1957 |title=Film Reviews: An Affair to Remember |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |page=6 |via=Internet Archive }}</ref> ''[[Harrison's Reports]]'' was also positive, calling it "more enchanting and delightful than the original" and "so powerful in the closing scenes that one is unable to fight back the tears."<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/harrisonsreports39harr/page/n135/mode/2up |date=July 13, 1957 |title='An Affair to Remember' with Cary Grant and Deborah Keer |magazine=[[Harrison's Reports]] |page=112 |via=Internet Archive }}</ref> [[John McCarten]] of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' was dismissive, writing that the actors were "tolerable, but the movie is really awfully maudlin."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=McCarten |first=John |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1957/08/03/1957-08-03-048-tny-cards-000058261 |date=August 3, 1957 |title=The Current Cinema |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |page=48 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> A generally positive review in ''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' called the film "a lush slice of Hollywood romanticism, unashamedly following most of the familiar conventions of glossy magazine fiction. To judge it on a higher level would normally seem unfair if it were not that here the script does succeed in cutting rather deeper. The relationship between Ferrante and Terry McKay is briskly developed, with an attractive, often touching humor."<ref>{{cite journal |date=October 1957 |title=An Affair to Remember |journal=[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=24 |issue=285 |page=122 }}</ref> The ''[[Philadelphia Inquirer]]'' review invoked the 1939 original: "18 years ago we wept and worried over the romantic pangs of Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer in 'Love Affair.' It seems distinctly unimportant now when misunderstandings disrupt the billing and cooing of Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant in 'An Affair to Remember,' Leo McCarey's interminably extended version of 'Love Affair'."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Martin |first=Mildred |date=4 August 1957 |title=Vintage Tales are Revived |work=[[Philadelphia Inquirer]] |page=13}}</ref>

The film holds a 67% rating on [[Rotten Tomatoes]] based on 33 reviews.<ref>{{cite web|title=An Affair to Remember|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/affair_to_remember|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=October 9, 2023}}</ref> In 1998, [[Jonathan Rosenbaum]] of the ''[[Chicago Reader]]'' included the film in his unranked list of the best American films not included on the [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies|AFI Top 100]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Rosenbaum |first=Jonathan |author-link=Jonathan Rosenbaum |date=June 25, 1998 |title=List-o-Mania: Or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love American Movies |url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/list-o-mania/Content?oid=896619 |newspaper=[[Chicago Reader]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413120818/https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/list-o-mania/Content?oid=896619 |archive-date=April 13, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> It is one of the [[BFI]]'s "50 great Christmas films currently streaming".<ref>{{Cite web |title=50 great Christmas films currently streaming |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/50-great-christmas-films-currently-streaming |access-date=2022-05-02 |website=BFI |language=en}}</ref>