I saw Stranger than Fiction Sunday with Angelo.
It was quite entertaining. I laughed at many points, I was touched by its emotion. Maggie Gyllenhall is a cutie. Excellent cast, including Linda Hunt, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, and especially Emma Thompson, who I've been crushing on for too many years. Plus the guy who played one of the idiot brothers on Arrested Development. Will Farrell is good in a comic role that relies on character and restraint and not shtick and pratfall; he trusts the material to be funny on its own, freeing him to act.
The script was good, but there were a lot of symbolic elements (water in the death scenes and the sentient watch in particular) that I'm not sure were entirely tied off, but I'm not sure that's a bad thing; the obsessive splicing of every loose end is something I complain about a lot when it happens in superhero movies. I will note that the popup number graphics fade out quite nicely without drawing undue attention to their fading out.
On the other hand, there's a scene in which the watch is said to be rejoicing at the feel of wind across its face, when we see that the watch is more than half covered by shirtsleeve and jacket cuff. Gotta watch that, kids.
Ultimately, it's pretty lightweight. I take the novel within the movie to be the movie's expression of itself, and as it says of itself, it's "OK; not great." It's a very entertaining way of spending a couple of hours, but it's not going to offer unusual insight into humanity or the nature of fiction. See it on that basis.