There are absolutely no surprises in any of the increasingly choppy vignettes.
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11/05/03
Love Actually (2003)
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Reviews Counted:180
Fresh:114
Rotten:66
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: A sugary tale overstuffed with too many stories. Still, the cast charms.
Runtime: 2 hrs 15 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: General opinion’s starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed – but I don’t see that – seems to me that love is everywhere. Igniting laughter, wreaking havoc, breaking... [More]
Starring: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Keira Knightley
Director: Richard Curtis
Reviews for Love Actually
161 - 180 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Feel-good schmaltz creeps into every nook and cranny of writer/director Richard Curtis’s Love Actually.
11/05/03
If you're going to have your emotional responses shunted around like a gear stick, it might as well be by someone who writes dialogue as funny as Curtis does.
11/05/03
a set of interwoven tales that charm but never pander
11/05/03
Plays like a Richard Curtis Greatest Hits compilation.
11/05/03
Even Curtis's few missteps make relative sense in his otherwise smart and bulging valentine to the world... in an inspired movie with just so much to love, actually.
11/05/03
I walked into the theater exhausted and pissed off. I left grinning like an imbecile.
11/05/03
Bill Nighy steals the show whenever on the screen with his rock star cynicism, I’m-so-bored demeanor and funny, off-color dialogue
11/04/03
When he isn't overreaching for absurdity, Curtis can write bouncy patter, but each character gets about 60 seconds before the movie jumps deck to the next love-seeker and the next moony pratfall.
11/04/03
As a director, Curtis can't seem to rein in his writer.
11/04/03
There are times when all of this goodwill feels a tad forced and artificial, but, on balance, Love Actually is appealing and genial with plenty of solid laughs, and worthy of a recommendation for those who appreciate this kind of thing.
11/04/03
I smiled throughout, charmed by the stories’ feel-good rhythms and the sense of something lovely and quixotic lurking just around the corner.
11/03/03
All these characters and story threads feel sketchy and incomplete, as if Curtis had written four or five dead-end drafts on one theme, then decided to try combining them all.
11/03/03
With Love Actually, first-time director Richard Curtis has given adult moviegoers a joyous Holiday treat.
11/03/03
like a compilation 'Best of' hits album targeted at Christmas shoppers
11/02/03
Park your cynicism and enjoy the year's best ensemble acting.
11/02/03
By cramming eight different stories into his film, [Curtis] has guaranteed that none of them will get enough time to fully develop.
11/01/03
Thank you Universal for the perfect holiday gift, Love Actually -- one hilarious poem of a picture to the joy of love!
10/31/03
Depressingly upbeat.
10/31/03
Emotionally pulls you in. I cried two-thirds in straight to the end.
10/28/03
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