Review: Love Actually
"Love Actually" is a belly-flop into the sea of romantic comedy. It contains about a dozen couples who are in love; that's an approximate figure ...
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert
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Review: Love Actually
Love Actually doesn't have a cynical frame in its celluloid. It's for all those romantics who think there aren't enough happy endings. ...
Reelviews - James Berardinelli
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'Love' And Theft
Hugh Grant, with Martine McCutcheon (left) and Emma Thompson, in Richard Curtis' "Love Actually." LOVE ACTUALLY Slick but uneven romantic comedy. ...
New York Post - Jonathan Foreman
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Actually superb
According to The Beatles, love is all you need and Joe Cocker insisted love lifts us up where we belong. In his blissfully romantic holiday comedy ...
Canoe.ca - LOUIS B. HOBSON
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Review: LOVE ACTUALLY
If you want to be cynical, you can take the measure of this ensemble film by its weakest elements. The sappy opening narration, insufferable child ...
TV Guide - Maitland McDonagh
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Plenty of Love for everybody
Richard Curtis' effervescent and enjoyable Love Actually is being hyped as "the ultimate romantic comedy." That somewhat overstates the case, ...
Canoe.ca - BRUCE KIRKLAND
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Flak Magazine: Review of Love Actually, 11.19.03
Likewise, none of Love Actually 's nine short love stories is developed very thoroughly or thoughtfully; some of the vignettes, however, ...
Flak Magazine - David Essex - 11/19/03
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Review: Love Actually
Love Actually begins with a series of scenes that quickly establish its panoply of characters, the climax of which is a shot of Britain's new ...
Kinnopio.com - Craig Roush
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BBC - Films - review - Love Actually
A star-stuffed romantic comedy from Four Weddings And A Funeral writer Richard Curtis. Lovely, actually. Cynics may be sick, romantics will feel ...
BBC - Nev Pierce - 11/20/03
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Review: Love Actually
Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon in Love Actually Every holiday season needs a cloying tonic of a film to offset the end-of-the-year blues. ...
Palo Alto Online - Jeanne Aufmuth
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Review: Love Actually (2003)
Watching "Love Actually," one could easily imagine it being directed by Robert Altman if he offered cutesy characterizations and plot developments ...
TheMovieBoy.com - Dustin Putman
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Review: Love Actually
Hugh Grant is a world-class charmer, and he pours it on as Britain's prime minister, a sort of bachelor Tony Blair in heat for a chubby staffer ...
Rolling Stone - Editorial Review
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Review: Love Actually
While many films extolling the virtues of love are too gooey to be palatable by most humans, "Love Actually" wields its sweetness gracefully, ...
EricDSnider.com - Eric D. Snider
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Movie Review for Love Actually - 2004-04-12
Love actually is everywhere. So claims the latest film from Writer/Director Richard Curtis (writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral , Notting Hill ...
Cinema Blend - Joshua Tyler - 04/12/04
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Review: Love Actually
"There was more than one lobster present at the birth of Jesus?" I would wager that Richard Curtis is a singularly pleasant person, ...
FilmBlather.com - Eugene Novikov
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JoBlo's movie review of Love Actually: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson
When I first saw the studio marketing this film as "the ultimate romantic comedy", I couldn't help but feel really bad for the person who came up ...
JoBlo's Movie Emporium - Berge Garabedian
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Review: Love Actually
Trailers advertise Richard Curtis s directorial debut Love Actually as the ultimate romantic comedy. The film lives up to its hype, depicting love ...
Film Threat - Stina Chyn
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Review: Love Actually
An overcrowded Anglo romantic comedy from the "Bridget's Four Notting Hill Weddings" guy leaves the actors, and the audience, no room to breathe. ...
Salon - Stephanie Zacharek
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Review: Love Actually
I can only presume that the British calendar is so uniquely screwy that it allows for a Christmas movie to open a week after Halloween. ...
FilmCritic.com - Christopher Null
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Review: Love Actually
Come Christmas time, what could be better than a star-studded British romantic comedy? How about some five-and-a-half British romantic comedies, ...
Film Threat - Chris Barsanti
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Review: Love Actually (2003)
Universal Pictures, part of the troubled Vivendi corporate empire, pulls out all the stops for its Christmas entry, Love Actually , even though it ...
CultureVulture.net - Arthur Lazere
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Review: Love Actually
Overlong and over-sentimental, this is nonetheless a fairly entertaining way to spend a couple of hours, and it s great to see so many of the UK s ...
Empire Online - Caroline Westbrook
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Plots overthrow romance in `Love Actually'
The Boston Globe - Ty Burr, Globe Staff
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LOVE ACTUALLY Film Review
Boxoffice Online - Editorial Review
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"Love Actually": Borderline Narcissism
Pros Some nice eye candy; Bill Nighy is moderately funny Cons Another cliche-heavy and thoroughly boring Curtis script The Bottom Line If Curtis ...
Epinions - Simply_Crispy
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