You've Got Mail distills the essence of Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. It's a cute, funny, nice and ever-so-appealing romantic comedy.
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You've Got Mail (1998)
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Reviews Counted:74
Fresh:50
Rotten:24
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: Great chemistry between the leads made this a warm and charming delight.
Reviews for You've Got Mail
That Joe is smug, oily and a ruthless destroyer of small businesses, while Kathleen intolerably twee, makes for some rough sledding that the combined star power of Ryan and Hanks doesn't ameliorate.
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You've Got Mail is a light and tasty little romantic recipe for the holidays.
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Mail offers us a fantasy version of New York, the one we'd all like to live in, that only serves to enhance the film's genuine New York magic.
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What a complete waste of time.
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Of all the delights to be had while watching the enchanting romantic comedy You've Got Mail, none gave me more joy than the performance of co-lead Meg Ryan.
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This film made me feel like a Christmas goose being fattened for slaughter. Its force-fed diet of whimsy cloyed long before the eagerly anticipated romantic payoff arrived to put me out of my misery.
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The whole movie goes bland and flat as a fast-food knish or a blank computer screen.
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The witty dialogue gets high gloss from two of the finest light romantic leads in Hollywood, whose chemistry was already proven in Sleepless in Seattle.
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You've Got Mail provides a perfectly cuddly night at the movies!
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The entire movie is glazed with syrupy sweet generic moments...that clash with the potentially enjoyable, devious grown-up comedy that nearly surfaces as Joe and Kathleen develop a flirty animosity as they continue to run into each other.
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Ephron's updating of this material falls flat.
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Ryan and Hanks have more winning smiles than most people have expressions!
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Top CriticYou've Got Mail is a celebrity-powered wish-fulfillment, and that's okay. Sometimes it's enjoyable just watching nice things happen to nice people, even if the nice people involved happen to be movie stars.
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It's handsome, professional moviemaking all around, just a little flat when it ought to soar.
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You've Got Mail is a valentine to the happenstance miracle of lovers and other strangers, a movie that regards modern romance as something that is, ultimately, old-fashioned to its core.
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Consistently charming and delightful!
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What a sparkling, sweet treat! It's the most romantic movie of the holiday season.
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