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Shakespeare in Love

Oscar™ Best Picture - Winning Movies

Shakespeare in Love

1998

John Madden

Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Judi Dench, Geoffrey Rush ...

6.5

84,975

Romance. Comedy. Drama In 1590s London, amid the great heyday of Elizabethan entertainment, two rival theaters — The Curtain, owned by Richard Burbage and The Rose owned by Philip Henslowe — competed passionately for the same audience to fill their playhouses. Under pressure to satisfy the overwhelming demand for new works, a rising young writer by the name of Will Shakespeare penned his love-inspired play — Romeo and Juliet. This twisting, turning, fiery ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Lael Loewenstein Variety	"Exquisitely acted, tightly directed and impressively assembled."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"I was carried along by the wit, the energy and a surprising sweetness. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Wittily weaving Shakespearean language and emotion into an intoxicatingly glamorous romance."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"You can't miss with a movie that speaks the language of love with such hotblooded delight."	POS
United Kingdom	Quentin Curtis Telegraph	"In its marriage of farce and sentiment, there is an undeniable magic – a comic spirit that can fairly be called Shakespearean. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"The movie becomes something quite rare and magical: a text about a text that is also full of life (...) It's both postmodern and fun!"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"This is postmodernism without the ponce, period drama without the pomposity (...) 'Shakespeare In Love's clever-cleverness doesn't alienate (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Lisa Alspector Chicago Reader	"[Its] clever relationship to what's known and what's unresolved is part of what makes it so intriguing and so romantic"	POS
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"[An] entertaining, if terribly slight, film (...) 'Shakespeare In Love' delivers the goods"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"The film sports its superficiality with good humour, and the cast deserve much of the credit (...) It's Tom Stoppard's witty, intelligent script which proves so satisfying"	POS
United Kingdom	William Gallagher BBC	"This is a joyous and quite brilliant comedy (...) The entire cast are superb (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Alex von Tunzelmann The Guardian	"John Madden's entertaining reimagining of the Bard's creative process makes enough witty allusions to recorded events to keep all but the most severe students of Shakespeare happy"	POS
United Kingdom	Lorien Haynes Radio Times	"A film that is passionate, intelligent and hysterically funny (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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