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Love Actually (2003) Rank 2 Reviews
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eye WEEKLY (Catharine Tunnacliffe)
Jam! Movies (Bruce Kirkland)
There is probably something for everybody in this movie. If you don't like some segment, and the people in it, just wait a few minutes. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Jam! Movies (Bruce Kirkland)
Citysearch (Bill Pearis)
Writer-director Richard Curtis has jam-packed the story with too many characters and the whole thing borders on sickeningly sweet. But a fitfully funny screenplay and irreproachable cast keep you from suffering cinematic toothache. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Citysearch (Bill Pearis)
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Las Vegas Weekly (Josh Bell)
Love Actually is a Robert Altman film on happy pills. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Las Vegas Weekly (Josh Bell)
ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)
filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Plays like a Richard Curtis Greatest Hits compilation. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
Go, you weapy-eyed romantics. It's too long but mostly fun, actually. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
It's too busy with too many stories to tell. But there's so much heart and silly fun and genuine sentiment here, delivered by an A-list of Brit and American talent that it's hard to fault. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Orlando Sentinel (Roger Moore)
Film Threat (Stina Chyn)
The film lives up to its hype. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Film Threat (Stina Chyn)
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TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
Curtis's directing debut is frequently funny, generally fizzy and occasionally piercingly perceptive about the price love exacts. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
Boxoffice Magazine (Christine James)
Love is a many-splendored thing, but this film could have done with more of the splendor and not so much of the many. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Boxoffice Magazine (Christine James)
Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
Though it would be dishonest to call this an unqualified success, it would be churlish not to tip the hat to Love Actually 's genuine charm. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Los Angeles Times (Kenneth Turan)
cinEncanto (Pablo del Moral)
El Criticon (Antonio Méndez Casanova)
"Love Actually" supone el debut en la dirección del guionista Richard Curtis, que ha escrito grandes éxitos de la comedia romántica británica como "Cuatro bodas y un funeral" o "El diario de Bridget Jones", y que ahora dirige su propio guión.
Que qu ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at El Criticon (Antonio Méndez Casanova)
Xi-online (Ferdi Verweij)
Christian Spotlight on the Movies
Several times, a man and woman are depicted rehearsing a porn scene (including full nudity, except the genitals are not shown). Intercourse is graphically simulated several times, plus simulated oral sex. Another scene implies group sex. A nude man ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Christian Spotlight on the Movies
TeenHollywood.com (Lynn Barker)
The film opens with the movie's overall theme. While we see friends, family and lovers emotionally greeting each other at London's Heathrow Airport, a narrator tells us "General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at TeenHollywood.com (Lynn Barker)
CaribPress (Peri LaFon)
Like "Bridget Jones's Diary" before it, screenwriter Richard Curtis ("Four Weddings and a Funeral") sings the praises of the full size woman in his latest romantic comedy and directorial debut, "Love Actually." This really shouldn't be a big deal, but ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at CaribPress (Peri LaFon)
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
"Love Actually" could best be described as a film about weddings, funerals, holidays and every other event that writer-director Richard Curtis could possibly think to throw in — as well as the kitchen sink. It's a film badly in need of an editor. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Moviola (Jorge G. Avila Andrade)
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New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
Curtis throws every gag he can think of at the screen and the ones that don't stick, he throws again and again. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at New York Daily News (Jack Mathews)
Seattle Times (Moira MacDonald)
It's no hardship whatsoever to sit through Love Actually ... But if Curtis could have sharpened his focus, and trusted his actors a bit more, Love Actually could have been splendid. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Seattle Times (Moira MacDonald)
Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
The movie feels like Curtis pasted together pages from his sketchbook, throwing every good -- or bad -- idea into a single film. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Salt Lake Tribune (Sean Means)
Los Angeles Daily News (Glenn Whipp)
A rambling and repetitive, sometimes enjoyable, mostly maddening treatise on love or, at least, an R-rated Hallmark version of it. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Los Angeles Daily News (Glenn Whipp)
National Post (Katrina Onstad)
For a fairy tale, Love Actually is highly entertaining. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at National Post (Katrina Onstad)
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) (Jonathan R. Perry)
Peppered with so many moments of raw, affecting honesty that it's intensely difficult to dislike -- and tempting to forgive Richard Curtis for not finishing what he starts, ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) (Jonathan R. Perry)
Newsday (Gene Seymour)
Love Actually is to the romantic-comedy genre what a Sherman tank is to sport- utility vehicles. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Newsday (Gene Seymour)
Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
As a director, Curtis can't seem to rein in his writer. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
Unrequited love does not exist. In fact, there's so much requiting going on, we start wishing to see someone get dumped just to add a little excitement to the mix. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
Globe and Mail (Liam Lacey)
It pushes its 'love is good' message with such insistence, so many cheery pop tunes, airport hugs, coincidences and teary smiles, that it feels like one long commercial. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Globe and Mail (Liam Lacey)
Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)
There's so much plot being thrown at us in Love Actually that there's little room for genuine emotion; the film is as superficial as a Jay Leno monologue. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Kansas City Star (Robert W. Butler)
Denver Post (Lisa Kennedy)
Love Actually won't last you. Still, while you're enjoying it: Yummy. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Denver Post (Lisa Kennedy)
Chicago Tribune
The ensemble romantic comedy "Love Actually" opens with one of its least familiar actors, Bill Nighy, as a wonderfully crooked-faced pop singer recording a lame, Christmas-themed remake of the Troggs' "Love Is All Around." The running joke, which ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Chicago Tribune
Movie Gazette (Gary Panton)
Plenty of people will love this film (you know who you are), but personally I couldn't wait to escape the theatre by the time the full 135 minutes had been wrung dry. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Movie Gazette (Gary Panton)
One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
Love is "For Tomorrow" and "Hounds of Love" and "In Your Eyes". It is not the Pointer Sisters, Sugababes and Wyclef Jean. Nor is it the cast singing "All You Need Is Love", because that is a cliché, and nor is it "God Only Knows", because that ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)
Rather sprawling in its portrayal of several love
stories, the film strikes some appeal at times, and
misses the mark at others -- all the while somehow
managing to present itself in a charming manner. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Hollywood Report Card (Ross Anthony)
David N. Butterworth
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Sacramento Bee (Joe Baltake)
Call me Scrooge, but I sincerely hope that this film does not become a Christmas perennial. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Sacramento Bee (Joe Baltake)
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)
Sitting through 128 minutes of this much aggressive charm and wit is like being mugged in slow motion by beautiful people from the pages of Vanity Fair. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)
Toronto Star
If you're looking for a testosterone-free zone this holiday season, try any theatre showing the nuclear-strength romantic comedy Love Actually. For those scant straight males not already been frightened off by the movie's terrifying trailers - ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Toronto Star
Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)
From the writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral comes this rather trivial comedy about a subject that's anything but. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Duane Dudek)
It's good for a few laughs, and its heart is in the right place. But I never believed a moment of it. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Duane Dudek)
Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Hugh Grant is a world-class charmer, and he pours it on as Britain's prime minister, a sort of bachelor Tony Blair in heat for a chubby staffer (Martine McCutcheon) who also attracts the U.S. prez, played as a Clintonesque horn dog by Billy Bob Thornton. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Creative Loafing (Matt Brunson)
There are absolutely no surprises in any of the increasingly choppy vignettes. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Creative Loafing (Matt Brunson)
Blunt Review (Emily Blunt)
Love Actually, actually isn't half bad…the snafu is there's way too many stories going on at once... ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Blunt Review (Emily Blunt)
New York Times (A.O. Scott)
A patchwork of contrived naughtiness and forced pathos. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at New York Times (A.O. Scott)
F5 (Wichita, KS) (Jake Euker)
In the end the film is just as winsome and sugary as its facile message: "love, actually, is all around." ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at F5 (Wichita, KS) (Jake Euker)
Mark Reviews Movies (Mark Dujsik)
Review by Mark Dujsik
I could easily write off my
complete distaste for the saccharine, lovey-dovey nature of Love
Actually to the fact that I'm simply a young, cynical curmudgeon with no
taste for the romantic, but the fact is I like to think of ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Mark Reviews Movies (Mark Dujsik)
NYC Film Critic (Ethan Alter)
I do admit to chuckling once or twice at Love Actually mainly during Rowan Atkinson's too-brief cameo and anytime Hugh Grant was onscreen. The reason I liked Grant so much is he seemed to realize how bogus this whole scenario really is. Where the other ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at NYC Film Critic (Ethan Alter)
Eclipse Magazine (Sean O'Connell)
You can go into this expecting to be spoon-fed sugary sap until cotton candy churns out of your ears, and you’ll still be surprised by the level of overkill. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Eclipse Magazine (Sean O'Connell)
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