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03/05/02
Notting Hill (1999)
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Reviews Counted:97
Fresh:80
Rotten:17
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: Charming performances provide romance aplenty.
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant forge memorable chemistry in this charmer about two very different people--William, an unassuming bookstore owner in London's Notting Hill section, and Anna, a... [More]
Starring: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Emma Chambers
Director: Roger Michell
Reviews for Notting Hill
Sometimes it's the simple, unfussy entertainment that comes off best.
01/01/00
Top Critict's an agreeably slick affair, with decent support performances, elegant camerawork, and several impressive set pieces.
01/26/06
Top CriticWe should be pleased enough to see a star-vehicle romantic comedy which actually does contain star quality, romance and comedy.
01/01/00
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01/01/00
Notting Hill is Four Weddings And A Funeral with inferior character actors, no Simon Callow, and fewer jokes.
01/01/00
Clearly, Roberts can play the version of herself with which you're familiar and happy. Where that leaves you on the real-unreal continuum is a little less clear.
01/01/00
Notting Hill cynically merges Hollywood gloss and smarminess with an overwrought but highly exportable English taste for quirk.
01/01/00
The same old romantic comedy formula story that has become a Hollywood trademark is revived here.
01/01/00
Not only repetitive but plain unfunny!
01/01/00
The romance is tepid.
01/01/00
It’s a crowd-pleaser, all right (so were public hangings, once), but with all the emotional resonance of a tap on the knee with a rubber hammer.
08/07/08
An unconvincing romance, languid pacing and a lot of empty scenes played out specifically for laughs, to the detriment of plot.
01/01/00
Nothing new. And nothing much.
01/01/00
Perhaps the two leads seem just too charming and empty.
01/01/00
The movie-star-playing-a-movie-star-who-wants-to-be-a-real-person conceit also has an odd, chilling effect on Julia Roberts, whose appeal, overwhelmingly, is based on her seeming just like the rest of us.
01/01/00
Lately, romance comedies have expanded in running time, doubtless to compensate for their shrinkage in charm, and this is no exception -- it's way too long for something far too slight.
03/22/02
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