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Shakespeare in Love (1998)

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All Time

of 190,142

112

1990's

of 24,698

11

1998

of 6,348

3
Comedy
- Comedy All Time
  
  of 36,552
  
  12
  
  Comedy of 1998
  
  of 494
  
  2
  
  Comedy of the 1990's
  
  of 3,182
  
  2
Romance
- Romance All Time
  
  of 6,887
  
  16
  
  Romance of 1998
  
  of 154
  
  1
  
  Romance of the 1990's
  
  of 895
  
  2

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Shakespeare in Love (1998) is ranked overall as out of 4 stars

Overall Rating:3.4687

Avg Critic Score:3.4284

Shakespeare in Love (1998) Movie Reviews

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Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

There is a boatman in "Shakespeare in Love" who ferries Shakespeare across the Thames while bragging, "I had Christopher Marlowe in my boat once. ...read the complete Shakespeare in Love movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice

Memo to director John Madden: Cut it out, damn it! Keep making charming and enjoyable pictures like Shakespeare In Love and you'll ruin it for us grumpy cynics everywhere.William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) is on a cold streak. ...read the complete Shakespeare in Love movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice

filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)

Easily the best comedy of the year – and the best film of the year to star Joseph Fiennes and feature Queen Elizabeth as a major character – Shakespeare in Love gets a hands-down recommendation for all filmgoers. ...read the complete Shakespeare in Love movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)

ReelViews (James Berardinelli)

Joining Fiennes and Rush in front of the camera are a couple of American Miramax regulars: the radiant Gwyneth Paltrow and the cocky Ben Affleck. Paltrow, who has sported a British accent as recently as in Sliding Doors, is the better of the two. ...read the complete Shakespeare in Love movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)

ReelViews (James Berardinelli)

Shakespeare in Love is about ten minutes too long, but, for most of the two hour running length, Stoppard and Norman's script seamlessly blends comedy, romance, and light drama. ...read the complete Shakespeare in Love movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)

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Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)

Co-written by Marc Norman ( Cutthroat Island ) and Tom Stoppard ( Rosencranz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Brazil ) -- who, on this evidence, doesn't work in films often enough -- the script moves quickly, making it a pleasure just to keep up. Here's a...read the complete Shakespeare in Love (1998) review at Deep Focus (Bryant Frazer)

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Virtual Urth Movie Channel

The whimsical premise behind director John Madden's (MRS. BROWN) latest film is that William Shakespeare, portrayed as a struggling playwright under contract, is suffering from writer's block while attempting to write a comedy entitled "Romeo and...read the complete Shakespeare in Love (1998) review at Virtual Urth Movie Channel

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The Phantom Tollbooth

Shakespeare in Love proves once and for all that the Fiennes family must have put something spicy in the baby food. Joseph Fiennes as Shakespeare demonstrates as much... nay, even more intensity than his melodramatic brother Ralph (Schindler's List,...read the complete Shakespeare in Love (1998) review at The Phantom Tollbooth

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Mac VerStandig

The finest sign of this may be the plot, in looking back, there seems to be little more than a thin, predictable plot that is only carried by the portrayal of people that we revere in our history books. Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush) owns 1 of the 2...read the complete Shakespeare in Love (1998) review at Mac VerStandig

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