It is a fizzy champagne cocktail that provides a pleasant buzz, many smiles, and Jude Law with the role of his career.
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12/08/06
The Holiday (2006)
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Reviews Counted:130
Fresh:60
Rotten:70
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: The Holiday, while sweet and somewhat touching, lacks any surprises and eventually overstays its welcome.
Theatrical Release:08-12-2006
Synopsis: Amanda Woods (Cameron Diaz), the owner of a prospering advertising firm that creates movie trailers, lives in Southern California. Iris Simpkins (Kate Winslet) writes the popular wedding column for... [More]
Reviews for The Holiday
There is evidence in The Holiday that the declining value of the dollar appears to have distorted the status of leading men on both sides of the pond.
12/08/06
Any holiday movie with a dollop of sweetness and a touch of wistful deserves a little slack at this time of year. This one is pleasant enough, but The Holiday won't be one you'll remember after the eggnog has worn off.
12/08/06
For all its charm, there's nothing in The Holiday you haven't seen in a dozen romantic comedies.
12/08/06
The movie, which runs two hours-plus, has its highs and lulls, but the charismatic cast offsets flawed storytelling.
12/08/06
Complaining about the gooey and generic The Holiday is as useless as railing against fruitcake -- this is a slick, throwaway chick flick designed to provide nothing more than mindless diversion between bouts of shopping.
12/08/06
The Holiday is a harmlessly cheery confection.
12/08/06
The Holiday has the materialist airhead brightness of a Christmas department store window, with handsomely outfitted mannequins arranged around an artificial fire. It's glamorous and sentimental but it doesn't touch the heart.
12/08/06
Although it is inoffensive and well-intentioned, The Holiday is neither the sum of its parts nor an especially effective whole.
12/08/06
This melding of comedic minds is one of the better holiday gifts we've received, cinematically speaking.
12/08/06
There is so much to not like about The Holiday. Yet this humorous romantic fantasy is really, really easy to enjoy.
12/08/06
[Director Nancy Meyers] hits all the notes of the chick-flick formula -- heartbreak, ice cream, Aretha Franklin -- but she never creates a melody.
12/08/06
Way too much cute.
12/08/06
The Holiday, like the holidays, will require some girding up, and is best met halfway with a self-immunizing smile.
12/08/06
Obviously intended as a romantic throwback to the good old days of Hollywood, The Holiday instead comes off as a self-indulgent, insipid piece of seasonal trash.
12/08/06
The Holiday is as advertised: a respite from everyday demands and acquired cynicism.
12/08/06
This romantic comedy has an almost terminal case of the cutes.
12/08/06
The Holiday isn't a great movie, but it should appeal to those who like their movies comfortably upholstered and primed to tug at the heart strings.
12/08/06
The problem with Nancy Meyer's romantic comedy The Holiday is that it is contrived, too long, and insufferably cute.
12/08/06
The Holiday is a drippily sentimental and contrived movie that ladles on the treacle with a particularly heavy hand and strands some good actors -- and not so good ones -- along the way.
12/08/06
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