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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
Very funny, effortlessly moving, stylishly made, impeccably acted by a mind-bogglingly great cast -- and, yes, wholly satisfying. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (Ken Hanke)
The Movie Mom (Nell Minow)
"Love Actually" is as stuffed with goodies as the Christmas stockings for those at the very top of Santa's "nice" list -- and it is just as entertaining, too. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at The Movie Mom (Nell Minow)
About.com Hollywood Movies (Rebecca Murray)
Warm Fuzzies Abound in Curtis' Directorial Debut
Audiences can start celebrating a little early as the holiday-themed romantic comedy “Love Actually” weaves its spell over moviegoers. Writer/director Richard Curtis’ romantic comedy can ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at About.com Hollywood Movies (Rebecca Murray)
ToxicUniverse.com (Brandon Curtis)
I dread using words like delightful, charming and funny no matter how apt a descriptor of a film they may be but writer/director Richard Curtis' latest feature proves itself to be all of those things and more. This film could well be the ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at ToxicUniverse.com (Brandon Curtis)
Daytona Beach News-Journal (Fl.) (Jeff Farance)
Is Love Actually nothing more than a fantasy? Perhaps, but it's one cinematic journey lovers and lovers of lovers will want to take. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Daytona Beach News-Journal (Fl.) (Jeff Farance)
Providence Journal (Michael Janusonis)
The Movie Chicks
Love actually is all around us as the Christmas season approaches, at least according to this latest British import. It's everywhere in one form or another: unrequited love, seduction, love that's struggling, lost love, missed opportunities, ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at The Movie Chicks
Filmjerk.com (Brian Orndorf)
Houston Chronicle
Love Actually shows disparate Londoners with one thing in common: They desperately long for romance. Love, or even its faint prospect, rocks their world and makes it go 'round.
As aggressively feel-good fare, the film shares that desperation. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Houston Chronicle
Detroit News (Tom Long)
Perfectly wonderful if not completely perfect. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Detroit News (Tom Long)
Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
The film is reminiscent of "Four Weddings and a Funeral" in that it explores the bitterness as well as the sweetness of love's banquet. Also there is, in fact, a wedding and a funeral in it. The film is complex and multi layered. There are some ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
Karina Montgomery
Add the enormous cast of Brit wit darlings and consistently emotionally complex actors, the pedigree, what's not to like? Oh believe you me, I was terrified that my expectations would be too high. The feelgood preview, with Hugh Grant dancing charmingly ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Karina Montgomery
Harvey S. Karten
That "Love Actually" is lighter than a Christmas snowflake, each story presumably unable to stand alone but in concert with the others forms an endearing gestalt, is not a criticism. Curtis affords his characters dialogue so clever that since less is ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Harvey S. Karten
MovieWeb (Derek May)
Romantic comedies are a tricky thing to pull off. Either they stray too far into the comedy and you get more slapstick or toilet humor than romance, or the comedy is thin and the romance is sappy- meaning that we sit for an hour and a half and scream ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at MovieWeb (Derek May)
The King's Room (Paul Perkins)
Well it that time of the year again, the time when the
weather start to get colder leaves start to come off trees, and snow begin to
falls. Hollywood has started to bring out there holiday movies aiming for the
couples, kids, and anyone who like this ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at The King's Room (Paul Perkins)
Reno Gazette-Journal (Mark Robison)
Ten romantic comedies rolled into one. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Reno Gazette-Journal (Mark Robison)
Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)
By all rights, we shouldn't enjoy Love Actually. It has the air of an extended outtakes reel, mashing together scenes cut from other movies of its ilk. Director Richard Curtis has a good eye for them; after all, he penned such modern classics as Four ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)
Bangor Daily News (Maine) (Christopher Smith)
The year's busiest and most relentlessly shameless comedy. It's also among the year's funniest and most disarming. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Bangor Daily News (Maine) (Christopher Smith)
The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
Besides, the whole thing is about love, and what is love if not improbable? What about it makes sense or follows the rules of logic? Love, like a good movie, can convince you of almost anything. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
Homer Yen
For example, it fills you with resolve, as displayed by the Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) who goes from selfdeprecatingly sheepish to leading man. It fills you with fear, as displayed by shy Sarah (Laura Linney) who has loved a coworker from afar. It ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Homer Yen
eFilmCritic.com (Elaine Perrone)
I liked it a lot, actually! ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Elaine Perrone)
Dallas Morning News (Philip Wuntch)
The creators of Love Actually clearly believe that if a movie has enough charm, it doesn't need depth. In the case of Love Actually , they are absolutely right. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Dallas Morning News (Philip Wuntch)
AboutFilm.com (Carlo Cavagna)
Curtis continues to find new twists on old romantic comedy stand-bys, such as the Mad Rush to the Airport to Catch the Girl in the Nick of Time. You know you're in for that one right from the beginning, when Hugh Grant (in voiceover) talks about how ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at AboutFilm.com (Carlo Cavagna)
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Supercala.com (John Venable)
Hope springs eternal, love is everywhere, and Keira Knightley is genetic perfection. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Supercala.com (John Venable)
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Steve Rhodes
The film, which gets funnier and more touching as it goes on, contains more large laughs than could be stuffed into any Christmas box. The holiday story starts in the five weeks before Christmas and works its way up to the big day, so opening the movie ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Steve Rhodes
Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
It's going to make a lot of holiday romantics feel very, very good; watching it, I felt cozy and charmed myself. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Kushmeer Farakhan)
I had no business enjoying this movie as much as I did. None. As a rule, I usually don't like romantic comedies. I find the vast majority of them full of nothing but cliche' upon cliche' and they're usually so mind-numbingly predictable that you can ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Kushmeer Farakhan)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Eleanor Ringel Gillespie)
As bright and cheery as a string of Christmas lights. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Eleanor Ringel Gillespie)
eFilmCritic Reviews
Cranky, uptight folks who consider themselves too sophisticated to enjoy a piece of fluff like Love Actually have their panties all in a twist over bullshit like:
§ the fact that the story is romantic and sappy (no kidding?)
§ the unfair manner in ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at eFilmCritic Reviews
Denver Rocky Mountain News (Robert Denerstein)
Love Actually isn't deep, but it can be amusing. If its parts are better than the whole, at least it has parts that provide real laughs. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Denver Rocky Mountain News (Robert Denerstein)
Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
LOVE, ACTUALLY takes upon itself the daunting task of presenting to us love in all its manifestations. There's the fairy tale, the tragedy, the farce, the friendships and the betrayals all rolled up into a set of interwoven tales that charm but never ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Killer Movie Reviews (Andrea Chase)
Shannon Patrick Sullivan
Review: If you can't stand a healthy dose of schmaltz in your movies, run don't walk in exactly the opposite direction from the nearest theatre playing "Love Actually". But for those of us who can appreciate a little romantic corniness especially ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Shannon Patrick Sullivan
Bullz-Eye.com
"Love Actually" boasts a plethora of big laughs and talented stars, utilizing both the new and old blood of the British cinema to create a film that applies to everyone, even 11-year-old kids who already have gotten their first taste of love. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Bullz-Eye.com
Reel Movie Critic (George O. Singleton)
Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
Because many of the funny parts work so well -- Bill Nighy's storyline, for instance, is a true crack-up -- one wonders what place the dramatic parts really have here. With its acceleration to a big, so-corny-it-works finale, the movie does a fair ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
DVD Clinic ("Indiana Sev")
Its Christmastime in the U.K. and all of the best (and best-looking) British actors and actresses join Richard Curtis (writer of FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL and NOTTING HILL) in a love-fest extraordinaire. Whether its the love between siblings, family ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at DVD Clinic ("Indiana Sev")
Palo Alto Online (Jeanne Aufmuth)
Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon in Love Actually Every holiday season needs a cloying tonic of a film to offset the end-of-the-year blues. Have I got a movie for you... With heavy-handed platitudes but plenty of cheeky cheer, director Richard Curtis ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Palo Alto Online (Jeanne Aufmuth)
UpcomingDiscs.com (Jeremy Frost)
From the new bachelor Prime Minister instantly falling in love with a refreshingly real member of his staff moments after entering 10 Downing Street
To a writer escaping to the south of France to nurse his re-broken heart who finds love in a ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at UpcomingDiscs.com (Jeremy Frost)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
"Love Actually" is a belly-flop into the sea of romantic comedy. It contains about a dozen couples who are in love; that's an approximate figure because some of them fall out of love and ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Premiere Magazine (Glenn Kenny)
San Francisco Chronicle (Carla Meyer)
That Cow (Andrew Bradford)
I once heard a prominent critic say something to the effect that a particular film would be generally enjoyed except by those who didn't actually love love itself. It strikes me that such a sentiment applies even better to Love Actually. There is no ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at That Cow (Andrew Bradford)
Steve Rhodes <Steve.Rhodes@internetreviews.com>
Sometimes, truth in advertising is really refreshing.Writer/director/producerRichard Curtis's latest movie is calledLove Actually, and what's it about? Yup, you guessed it, love. And, as the poster suggests, the film's various stories really do ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Steve Rhodes <Steve.Rhodes@internetreviews.com>
Natural Born Viewers ("Geeky Marcus")
"Love Actually" is the kind of movie that tells you love actually works as long as you believe it will, and as long as you have the guts to perform embarrassing acts to that end. Of course, it's Christmas and I guess we don't care too ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Natural Born Viewers ("Geeky Marcus")
Xiibaro Productions (David Perry)
A widower (Neeson) helps his 12-year-old son (Sangster) woo the popular girl at school; a middle aged wife (Thompson) wonders if her husband (Rickman) is having an affair; a nervy single (Linney) attempts to find love while her handicapped brother takes ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Xiibaro Productions (David Perry)
Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Brian Oliver)
"When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love." Love Actually is an ensemble comedy by Richard Curtis, the mind behind hits ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Brian Oliver)
Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
Taking the ensemble romantic comedy just about as far as it can go, Love Actually (which is directed and also written by Four Weddings and a Funeral scribe Curtis) spins a merry skein of loves lost and found amid the bustle of holiday-season London. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
Susan Granger
But one of the risks of a writer directing his own script (like Robert Altman) is not knowing where to cut. For example, one storyline that should have been eliminated involves sweetfaced pornmovie standins who fall in love onthejob; their requisite ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Susan Granger
Future Movies (Jay Richardson)
Love Actually is both easy to love and easy to despise. If you can avoid the hype and lets face it, you cant this is a crassly enjoyable movie you should question yourself for liking. And thats even before you ignore the commercial tie-ins, the ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Future Movies (Jay Richardson)
Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Richard Curtis, writer of the successful romantic comedies, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones's Diary, takes the director's chair for the first time with impressive results. After watching many other directors do justice to his ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
When I first saw the studio marketing this film as "the ultimate romantic comedy", I couldn't help but feel really bad for the person who came up with that idea (and who would surely get fired for it sometime later) since it simply set the bar too high ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
MovieFreak.com (Dennis Landmann)
Writer/Director Richard Curtis offers viewers fun comedy and fantasy-filled romance in Love Actually, a film that takes place in cold and snowy London during Christmas time. Curtis constructs several different stories and characters around the film and ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at MovieFreak.com (Dennis Landmann)
filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
I can only presume that the British calendar is so uniquely screwy that it allows for a Christmas movie to open a week after Halloween. Or maybe Love Actually is just in a universe of its own… one in which the prime minister is inaugurated in ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Cinema Blend
is everywhere. So claims the latest film from Writer/Director Richard Curtis (writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill) before setting out to prove its point by shining a flashlight into the lives of a large group of quirky and loosely ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Cinema Blend
filmcritic.com
I can only presume that the British calendar is so uniquely screwy that it allows for a Christmas movie to open a week after Halloween. Or maybe Love Actually is just in a universe of its own⦠one in which the prime minister is inaugurated in November ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at filmcritic.com
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Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
Mostly just wants the audience to feel good and revel in the warmth of a fresh attraction. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
Netflix (James Rocchi)
Directorial debut of Brit-com master Richard Curtis is a big, bright ensemble tale with many delights -- and absolutely no surprises. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Netflix (James Rocchi)
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
All too rare is the holiday film that not only makes you feel good, but also is good. Love Actually works. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
Moose Hole (Joseph Kastner)
Love actually is all around us all we have to do is open our eyes and see it for ourselves ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Moose Hole (Joseph Kastner)
Arizona Republic (Bill Muller)
Love Actually plays like a greatest-hits album of modern British comedy, spinning all your favorite tunes in just the right order. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Arizona Republic (Bill Muller)
Jam! Movies (Louis B. Hobson)
A totally bewitching comedy that has as much to say to the intellect as it does to the heart. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Jam! Movies (Louis B. Hobson)
IndependentCritics.com (Richard Propes)
CinemaBlend - DVD review
The premise of romance in a British comedy is nothing new. Itâs almost a requirement that British comedies have to be about romance and star Hugh Grant. In that regard Love Actually is no different from other British Rom Coms. However, that is also ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at CinemaBlend - DVD review
Cinema Blend
The premise of romance in a British comedy is nothing new. Itâs almost a requirement that British comedies have to be about romance and star Hugh Grant. In that regard Love Actually is no different from other British Rom Coms. However, that is also ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Cinema Blend
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ninth symphony films
Though it might have proven an easy task to write nine separate love stories, combining those stories into a 120-page screenplay where each of those stories runs concurrently must have been quite a task for screenwriter and director Richard Curtis. Even ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at ninth symphony films
CultureDose.net (Brandon Curtis)
3 Black Chicks ("Bams")
Yet, those same reasons only endeared me more to this movie. And anyway, my lead is a wee bit misleading; to say this is "a Hugh Grant movie", isn't quite accurate. With eight interweaving stories to contend with, Grant's scenario as a newly-smitten new ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at 3 Black Chicks ("Bams")
Joe Critic.com (Rick Elliot)
Love Actually is smart and witty, loaded with clever little moments and sharp dialogue. The cast is a virtual whoâs who of impressive talent, including Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Kiera Knightley, Alan Rickman, Laura Linney, and ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Joe Critic.com (Rick Elliot)
Average Joes (Joe Lavers)
If the filmmakers had cut out a few storylines here and there, I would have been in love with this film, actually. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Average Joes (Joe Lavers)
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (Josh Larsen)
...an arrow from Cupid, and only the most cynical moviegoer would try to dodge it. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (Josh Larsen)
Detroit Free Press (Terry Lawson)
From top to bottom, Love Actually is a sparkler. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Detroit Free Press (Terry Lawson)
Oscar Guy (Wesley Lovell)
Plenty of entertainment in this well acted ensemble comedy that Robert Altman could easily have put his name on. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Oscar Guy (Wesley Lovell)
Miami Herald (Connie Ogle)
[Curtis] is nothing if not capable of creating merry, madcap romantic comedy, and he punctuates the purposely hackneyed developments and labyrinthian structure with sly wit and sprightly pacing. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Miami Herald (Connie Ogle)
Contra Costa Times (Mary F. Pols)
If you missed Four Weddings or Notting Hill , there's a good chance Love Actually will seem refreshing and delightful. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Contra Costa Times (Mary F. Pols)
Paul Turner
Love Actually is like a spoilt child. It's got everything it wants but doesn't appreciate it. Let me explain. Love Actually has a massively oversized cast - Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Alan Rickman, Andrew Lincoln, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson, Rowan Atkinson. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Paul Turner
efilmcritic.com (Collin Souter)
Upon first viewing, it is something of a guilty pleasure. Upon second viewing, it is simply a pleasure. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at efilmcritic.com (Collin Souter)
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
As the title suggests, Richard Curtis Love Actually is, quite simply, about love. Not just your standard romantic variety of love (though there is plenty of that to be found), but also the love between friends, parents and children, brothers and ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Phoebe Flowers)
Love Actually is not so much great as it is so blissfully, swooningly romantic that it's rendered irresistible. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Phoebe Flowers)
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) (Judith Egerton)
It's tart and amusing but carries a slightly cloying aftertaste. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) (Judith Egerton)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
I suppose one could consider Love Actually as a holiday motion picture, since there's a heavy does of Christmastime atmosphere. However, the movie isn't so intimately wed to the time of year that it can't exist without it (and viewers who ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Jay's Movie Blog
It's becoming increasingly difficult to figure out how the Richard Curtis who writes Working Title's Hugh Grant romantic comedies like Love Actually (see also: Four Weddings And A Funeral, Notting Hill) with the one who co-wrote every episode of ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Jay's Movie Blog
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ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Love Actually doesn't have a cynical frame in its celluloid. It's for all those romantics who think there aren't enough happy endings. Richard Curtis' movie dips so deep into the well of feel-good sentiment that it will threaten to send some audience memb ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Palo Alto Weekly (Jeanne Aufmuth)
I smiled throughout, charmed by the stories feel-good rhythms and the sense of something lovely and quixotic lurking just around the corner. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Palo Alto Weekly (Jeanne Aufmuth)
Hollywood.com (Kit Bowen)
Finally, a delightful piece of Christmas fluff to chase away visions of chainsaw-wielding serial killers. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Hollywood.com (Kit Bowen)
San Jose Mercury News (Bruce Newman)
The perfect Christmas confection. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at San Jose Mercury News (Bruce Newman)
eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)
One of the most unabashedly romantic films Ive ever seen. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)
europeanfilms.net (Boyd van Hoeij)
Romantic comedies are difficult to do well. It needs some fluff, a lot of good humour and a story that at least pretends to be about something. British screenwriter Richard Curtis knows how to write great romantic comedies: he wrote Four Weddings and a ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at europeanfilms.net (Boyd van Hoeij)
Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
A warm, benevolent comedy whose characters gradually become your dear friends. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Minneapolis Star Tribune (Colin Covert)
St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt)
Things get a little off-track near the end, when a couple of lesser storylines take center stage and when Curtis tries to make distracting pop songs do too much of the work his writing should do. It's crazy for a writer this gifted to rely on that ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at St. Paul Pioneer Press (Chris Hewitt)
Tail Slate (Darisa Diaz)
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
There's a wedding. There's a funeral. And there's Hugh Grant. And lurking behind them all is Richard Curtis, the London-based scribe of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones's Diary fame, taking the director's chair for the ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
Add Love Actually to your list Home Reviews Archives Essays Boulder/Denver Boulder Film Calendar Showtimes Palm/cell My List Support Us Letters --> Newsletter Podcast Help document.write(datestrings[DOW]); Join the discussion on: Old School Tarzan The ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
Reel.com
Love Actually is so sweet that if it were food, it would be banned on the South Beach Diet.
Written and directed by Richard Curtis, the scribe responsible for both-sides-of-the-pond megahits Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Reel.com
The Movie Insider (Lynda Lin)
There are more cameos than can be counted, but look for an appearance from Billy Bob Thornton, who when playing a 'normal' character is at his strangest. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at The Movie Insider (Lynda Lin)
Bucket Reviews (Danny Baldwin)
Love Actually represents why we go to the movies. Itâs a joyous ride, chocked full of great dialogue and heartwarming stories, a perfectly enjoyable piece of fluff. Only adjectives can describe the pleasure I experienced when watching it, for I have no ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Bucket Reviews (Danny Baldwin)
ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)
Come one, come all and wonder at the finely-constructed marvel that is Mr. Richard Curtis Cynical Manipulation Machine! Youll laugh! Youll cry! And youll go home feeling ever so slightly usedRichard Curtis could very well be the Smuggest ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)
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DVD Talk (James W. Powell)
Love Actually starts slow but really pays off in the end. If you're interested in a romantic comedy that's slightly different than the normal Hollywood fare, this one's for you, especially since the DVD features some pretty nice special items and nice ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at DVD Talk (James W. Powell)
ShowBIZ Data
It has been a long time since the last surprise hit at the box office, but several critics are suggesting that the British romantic comedy Love Actually has "sleeper" written all over it. With plots and subplots featuring 22 characters, the critics have ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at ShowBIZ Data
DVDActive (Richard Schuchardt)
As I said previously, I expected a lot from Love Actually but I was left with a sour taste in my mouth afterwards. It just goes to show that assembling an all-star cast does not guarantee you instant success, and even though the movie performed amicably ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at DVDActive (Richard Schuchardt)
Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)
Postscript: I said this with Elf and it bears repeating here. It is only the second weekend in November; Thanksgiving is still a fortnight off. Despite the chronic need to time one's opening well, we are TOO DAMN EARLY ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Trailers advertise Richard Curtis's directorial debut Love Actually as the ultimate romantic comedy. The film lives up to its hype, depicting love among a dozen or so individuals as they profess, achieve, or hold onto the loves of their lives over ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Moovees.com (Bill Payne)
Love Actually is an unabashedly romantic feel-good comedy that will stop at nothing to be loved itself. Richard Curtis, the acclaimed screenwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones's Diary, makes his directorial debut and ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Moovees.com (Bill Payne)
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This is not a great film. Whilst the format, with juggling multiple storylines, is handled reasonably well, there is a certain unevenness to the story development, that leads to some of the tales seeming to be of less importance - although I'm not sure ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at hoopla.nu
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If I was a critic more prone to cheesy review titles, Love Actually would be just too easy for puns. Like Actually? Love Sorta? Really Wanted to Love Actually but Only Liked? OK, that one's a little too literal. But it gets the point across pretty ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at UGO Screenwriter's Voice
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One of the more interesting movies of 2003, Love Actually is a hilarious, romantic, emotional rollercoaster chronicling the effects of love on an interconnecting web of individuals. Filled with a number of memorable scenes, yet completely ignored by the ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at The DVD Report (Britt Gillette)
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The ensemble cast headlines a spider web of relationships that are all loosely tied together if only for the novelty of it, but for all intensive purposes they might as well be completely separate storylines. Altogether they compose a decent concoction ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Bangin' Banana (Tim Bentley)
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Richard Curtis, writer and director of "Love Actually," is turning into the British equivalent of Frank Capra. With such charming movies as "Notting Hill," "Bridget Jones' Diary" and "Four Weddings and a Funeral" in his resumé, he is without peer when ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Triviana Reviews (Carlos deVillalvilla)
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If you want to be a big cranky-pants Scrooge, go ahead and walk out of Love Actually, the new romantic comedy from screenwriter/first-time director Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones' Diary). After all, it isn't perfect. Curtis ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at PopMatters (Mary Colgan)
Oregonian (Kim Morgan)
Too full of sweet sticky stuff for even the starry-eyed to stomach. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Oregonian (Kim Morgan)
Combustible Celluloid (Jeffrey M. Anderson)
The (Georgetown) Hoya
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian (Johnny Donaldson)
What should have been a charming holiday treat comes off as contrived, actually. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at The Massachusetts Daily Collegian (Johnny Donaldson)
Apollo Guide (Jamie Gillies)
Call it a Christmas gift from Britain to the world if you will; this film is undeniably charming and, for a holiday movie, sets the standard for the first years of the 21st century. The acting talent here would be worth watching if the only plot was the ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Apollo Guide (Jamie Gillies)
BBC Films (Almar Haflidason)
We said Love Actually - the directorial debut of Richard Curtis, writer of such feelgood Brit hits as Four Weddings And A Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones's Diary - was "warm, bittersweet and hilarious". Bridget Jones came out on a wonderful DVD ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at BBC Films (Almar Haflidason)
Movies 101 (Robert Glatzer)
Chart Magazine
Love Actually, the directorial debut from Richard Curtis (who has writing credits on Four Weddings And A Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jonesâ Diary), is sappy, emotionally manipulative and could serve as a dictionary definition example of "feel-good ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Chart Magazine
High Plains Reader (Greg Carlson)
Jigsaw Lounge (Neil Young)
eFilmCritic.com (Erik Childress)
USA Today (Claudia Puig)
Movie-Vault.com (Avril Carruthers)
Flak Magazine (David Essex)
CineScene.com (Shari L. Rosenblum)
Nitrate Online (Dan Lybarger)
Reeling Reviews (Robin and Laura Clifford)
Film Freak Central
I actively, aggressively dislike this film. Richard Curtis' Love Actually says something of its intentions in a subplot involving an aged rocker (Bill Nighy) who knows he's creating a reprehensible piece of garbage in an attempt to cash in on the gaffed ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Film Freak Central
CinemaZone.dk
Love Actually følger en lang række personer, der er mere eller mindre forbundet med hinanden, ad kærlighedens veje og vildveje. I filmens indledning introduceres vi til dem, og det er et held, at de alle spilles af kendte skuespillere, for ellers ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at CinemaZone.dk
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
BBC Films
Ten stories intertwine, loosely connected by friends of friends, family and next-door-neighbours. There's the new, bachelor prime minister (Hugh Grant) falling for the teagirl (Martine McCutcheon); his sister (Emma Thompson) suspecting her husband (Alan ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at BBC Films
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
As a reward for writing "Four Weddings and a Funeral" "Notting Hill" and other hits, British scribe Richard Curtis finally has been given a shot at directing a movie, and the result, "Love Actually," certainly makes the most of the opportunity. In fact, ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer
MovieWeb (Brian Balchack)
Three Movie Buffs (Patrick Nash)
The uneven tone and awkward editing don't stop Love Actually from entertaining. It is at times truly touching and funny, but at the same time smacks of a desperate effort to please the widest possible demographic. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Three Movie Buffs (Patrick Nash)
Jigsaw Lounge (Neil Young)
Having scriptedFour Weddings, Bean, Notting HillandBridget Jones' Diary, Curtis was given pretty muchcarte blanchefor his long-awaited directorial debut. The epic-length result is being hyped as "the ultimate romantic comedy," juggling a dozen ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Jigsaw Lounge (Neil Young)
New York Post (Jonathan Foreman)
But they also make you realize that Curtis is a filmmaker capable of genuinely affecting and powerful work - who chooses instead the easy grin, the pandering feel-good moment and the overcooked joke. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at New York Post (Jonathan Foreman)
Cinema Signals by The Filmiliar Cineaste
You like a romantic story? How about eight in one? Or, is it nine? This is a love comedy on steroids. As it explores a considerable number of manifestations of that condition, including true and abiding friendship, parental love and understanding, ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Cinema Signals by The Filmiliar Cineaste
Private Joker's Head (Zach Ralston)
In the opening scene of Richard Curtisâs self-consciously overblown romantic ode to optimism, a lonely, aging pop singer is covering an old Troggs song in a studio and he keeps trying to sing the word âloveâ when heâs supposed to sing âChristmas ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Private Joker's Head (Zach Ralston)
Boston Globe
In its lighthearted fashion, ''Love Actually'' asks us to accept a few radical notions. Among them are that all women in Wisconsin are lollapaloozas who look like Denise Richards, that Liam Neeson might find it difficult to get a date, and that Hugh ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Boston Globe
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Come Christmas time, what could be better than a star-studded British romantic comedy How about some five-and-a-half British romantic comedies, all swaddled together in one cozy, overstuffed package Well, that's what viewers will get in Love ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Channel 4 Film (--)
Is Love Actually a kitchen-sink drama? Coming from the man behind Four Weddings And A Funeral and Notting Hill, that seems unlikely. But Richard Curtis has, actually, thrown in everything but the kitchen sink for his directorial debut to come up with a ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Channel 4 Film (--)
Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Andy Hoglund)
When do you know something is too much of a good thing? Well, take candy, for instance. If you incessantly eat sugar gumdrops and you eat, eat, eat them for days and years and months, youre teeth will go bloody and, in turn, fall out. Another sweet ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Andy Hoglund)
Perth Sunday Times
FOCUS Online
Unsere Welt wird von Hass und Gier beherrscht? Richard Curtis empfiehlt, sich einfach mal in der Ankunftshalle eines Flughafens umzusehen. Dort fallen ständig Menschen einander um den Hals, von negativen Gefühlen ist nichts zu spüren. Mit bewegenden ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at FOCUS Online
DVD Times
Love Actually is the clearest sign yet that Richard Curtis, far from wanting to be Woody Allen or Billy Wilder, obviously wants to be Robert Altman. Curtisâ debut is a comedy-drama which intertwines a closely connected group of characters and their ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at DVD Times
SPLICEDwire (Rob Blackwelder)
"Love Actually" is terminally precious. Chirpy "classic" pop songs populate every third scene. It has no structure, just a jumble of interconnected stories -- some little dramas, some little comedies -- about love, flirtation, courtship and heartbreak, ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at SPLICEDwire (Rob Blackwelder)
The Onion A.V. Club (Scott Tobias)
With scripts for Four Weddings And A Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones's Diary, among others, one-man hit factory Richard Curtis has generated more than $1 billion in receipts worldwide, virtually cornering the market on frothy, upscale romantic ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at The Onion A.V. Club (Scott Tobias)
Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Richard Curtis, writer of the successful romantic comedies, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones's Diary, takes the director's chair for the first time with impressive results. After watching many other directors do justice to ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
eye WEEKLY (Catharine Tunnacliffe)
ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Plays like a Richard Curtis Greatest Hits compilation. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
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)
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)
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Film Threat (Stina Chyn)
The film lives up to its hype. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Film Threat (Stina Chyn)
Empire Magazine (--)
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)
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)
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 â 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
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)
Moviola (Jorge G. Avila Andrade)
Pop Entertainment.com
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)
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)
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)
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
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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)
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)
One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Blunt Review (Emily Blunt)
Love Actually, actually isn't half badthe snafu is there's way too many stories going on at once... ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Blunt Review (Emily Blunt)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
David N. Butterworth
Got beef? Visit "La Movie Boeuf" online athttp://members.dca.net/dnb========== XRAMRID: 36770 XLanguage: en XRTReviewID: 1238117 XRTTitleID: 1127289 XRTSourceID: 878 XRTAuthorID: 1393 XRTRatingText: 2/4The review above was posted to ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at David N. Butterworth
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 youll still be surprised by the level of overkill. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Eclipse Magazine (Sean O'Connell)
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)
New York Magazine (Peter Rainer)
I was looking forward to something a tad more satirical than this Hallmark card of a movie, which plugs innocence and goodness like they’re going out of style. ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at New York Magazine (Peter Rainer)
FilmFocus.Co.UK (Joe Utichi)
It's become tradition at Christmas. Your turkey is on the table, decorations adorn your tree, and Richard Curtis is putting on yet another Christmas-themed romantic comedy at your local cinema.Sure, it could be argued that his schedule isn't exactly... ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at FilmFocus.Co.UK (Joe Utichi)
Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)
'Love Actually" is an offbeat Christmas package, starting with its R rating. There are a few moments when I thought "Sex Actually" would be a more accurate title. There's nothing wrong with aiming a Christmas picture at older folks, of course, and ...read the complete Love Actually movie review at Christian Science Monitor (David Sterritt)
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