Trading Barbs, Like Doris And Rock
The NY Times review of Down With Love, a Peyton Reed film starring Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor. Down With Love movie trailer, showtimes, ...
The New York Times - A. O. Scott
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Review: Down with Love
With Down with Love , director Peyton Reed has addressed the common complaint of old-time film-goers that "they don't make movies the way they ...
Reelviews - James Berardinelli
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Review: Down With Love
"Down with Love" opens with the big CinemaScope logo that once announced 20th Century Fox mass-market entertainments. The titles show animated ...
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert - 05/16/03
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'Down' And Flirty
Ewan McGregor and Renee Zellweger star in the stylish "Down With Love." DOWN WITH LOVE A diverting bit of fluff. Running time: 96 minutes. ...
New York Post - Megan Lehmann
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Love falls flat
Last year, in Far From Heaven, director Todd Haynes paid loving homage to the Rock Hudson melodramas of the 1950s. With Down With Love, ...
Canoe.ca - LOUIS B. HOBSON - 05/16/03
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Review: DOWN WITH LOVE
A meticulous and oddly leaden homage to the cotton-candy colored sex comedies of the late 1950s and early '60s, particularly those starring Doris ...
TV Guide - Maitland McDonagh
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Review: Down With Love
Recently we have seen a revisitation in our society to that brief period of the late 50 s and early 60 s, that societal cusp between the ...
Film Threat - Brad Slager - 05/26/03
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'60s fun for 60 minutes
Down With Love is a '60s retro undertaking and lots of fun to look at -- for about an hour. For anyone who actually sat through some of the dopey ...
Canoe.ca - LIZ BRAUN - 05/16/03
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BBC - Films - review - Down With Love
Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor square off for a witty, 60s-style battle of the sexes. Hilarious. Smart, savvy and very, very funny, ...
BBC - Nev Pierce
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Review: Down With Love
Once upon a time unchartered by The Matrix crowd, meaning the 1960s, Hollywood made comedies in which Doris Day played a professional virgin and ...
Rolling Stone - Editorial Review
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Review: Down With Love (2003)
For the uninitiated, "Down with Love" is an affectionate, slightly satirical ode to the Doris Day-Rock Hudson sex farces of the ...
TheMovieBoy.com - Dustin Putman - 05/16/03
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Review: Down With Love
Please don t be fooled. Not by the cloying title, the impossibly adorable leads or even the pre-release hype which has been calling Down With Love ...
FilmCritic.com - Kevin Smokler
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DOWN WITH LOVE Film Review
Though Rock Hudson and Doris Day only made three films together-- Pillow Talk, Send Me No Flowers and Lover Come Back --the effect of those films ...
Boxoffice Online - Wade Major
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Review: Down With Love
"The place? New York City. The time? Now. 1962. And there's no other time like it." The relative success of Far From Heaven has apparently made ...
FilmBlather.com - Eugene Novikov
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Review: Down With Love
Ewan McGregor and Renee Zellweger in Down With Love. Nothing like an outrageously spoofy homage to the romantic comedies of Rock Hudson and Doris ...
Palo Alto Online - Jeanne Aufmuth - 05/16/03
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Review: Down With Love
This pitch-perfect imitation of a Rock Hudson-Doris Day nonsex comedy features Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor and a passel of visual delights. ...
Salon - Stephanie Zacharek - 05/16/03
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Review: Down With Love
Like Todd Haynes Far From Heaven , Down With Love mimics Hollywood filmmaking from decades ago. Both add a modern touch of suggestiveness while ...
Kinnopio.com - Andy Zientek
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Review: Down With Love
I've been reviewing movies for twenty years and this is the first time a film has had this effect on me. I've dozed off before (and I was rendered ...
Film Threat - Rick Kisonak - 05/20/03
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JoBlo's movie review of Down With Love: Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, David Hyde Pierce
A cute enough movie which floats along with its precise 1960s set designs & costumes, a bubbly soundtrack reminiscent of actual movies from that ...
JoBlo's Movie Emporium - Berge Garabedian - 05/13/03
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Review: Down with Love
"Down with Love" is essentially just one long joke, but it's such a sunny, good-natured one that only with great grumpy effort, I suspect, ...
EricDSnider.com - Eric D. Snider
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Review: Down with Love (2003)
Movies have always drawn on earlier works for inspiration, but new films based on period pieces have become something of a mode du jour . ...
CultureVulture.net - Wenkai Tay
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Down With Love (2003) - Family Movie Review
Many in the film industry feel that romances made prior to the late 1960s would have been much racier if it weren t for the restrictive censorship ...
Grading the Movies - Rod Gustafson
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Movie Review for Down with Love - 2004-04-15
Ewan McGregor, the singing, dancing, Scottish jedi, has possessed the soul of old time star Rock Hudson and turned him into a raging heterosexual. ...
Cinema Blend - Joshua Tyler - 04/15/04
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Review: Down With Love
Stylistically it feels a bit pointless, but McGregor, a fitfully amusing script and a neat pay-off are enough to entertain women in particular. ...
Empire Online - Anna Smith
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Review: Down With Love
Perhaps it was worth the experiment. Payton Reed s previous film was actually pretty good, and "Bring it On" was a really fun film. ...
Greenwich Village Gazette - Eric Lurio
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