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04/01/08
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
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Reviews Counted:47
Fresh:43
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.8/10
Consensus: Rob Reiner's touching, funny film set a new standard for romantic comedies, and he was ably abetted by the sharp interplay between Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan.
Reviews for When Harry Met Sally...
Top CriticReiner clearly likes his characters, and elicits sturdy performances from a proficient cast (Kirby and Fisher are especially fine as friends and confidants to the pair).
06/24/06
Top CriticThe writing and direction plays with the [romantic comedy] form and your expectations alike throughout, and with such good performances the film makes for a deliciously prickly ride with laugh-out-loud moments and scenes that resonate through the story.
04/17/01
Top CriticA sweet, cheerfully vulgar, and often very funny old-fashioned romantic comedy.
01/01/00
Top CriticSally is special lightning-in-a-bottle stuff that every member of the production has spent precious years of their lives trying to recreate, but always failing miserably.
08/26/09
Can a man and a woman be friends without worrying about having sex? Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan spend a beguiling dozen years trying to figure it out.
02/03/09
Top CriticDirector Rob Reiner has a killer instinct for setting up jokes and punchlines, and is vastly aided by the performances and chemistry of Crystal and Ryan, as well as crisp supporting work from Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby.
04/01/08
Top CriticFans of Billy Crystal's amphibian qualities may be amused, but the rest of us have to contend with a slavish Woody Allen imitation.
04/01/08
Rob Reiner directs with deftness and sincerity, making the material seem more engaging than it is, at least until the plot machanics begin to unwind and the film starts to seem shapeless.
04/01/08
Top CriticNo review available.
02/29/08
Reiner's film breaks the romantic-comedy mold because it's not so much about Harry and Sally as it is about men and women.
01/16/08
No review available.
10/20/07
What keeps the momentum going, despite the story's predictability, is the dialogue and the chemistry, which makes for a high-wire act.
11/18/05
No review available.
09/12/05
No review available.
07/23/05
No review available.
04/01/05
No review available.
12/26/04
No review available.
11/18/04
Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan are terrific together in one of the best romantic comedies of the 1980s.
09/16/04
A classic romantic comedy.
09/10/04
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