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Love Actually

2003

Richard Curtis

Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Laura Linney ...

6.8

73,136

Romance. Comedy This ultimate romantic comedy weaves together a spectacular number of love affairs into one amazing story. Set almost entirely in London, England during five frantic weeks before Christmas follows a web-like pattern of inter-related, losely related and unrelated stories of a dozen or more various individuals with their love lives, or lack of them. The central character is the new bachelor prime minister David (Hugh Grant) who cannot ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs, until at times Curtis seems to be working from a checklist of obligatory movie love situations and doesn't want to leave anything out (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"An indigestible Christmas pudding"	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"A roundly entertaining romantic comedy, 'Love Actually' is still nearly as cloying as it is funny"	POS
United States	Carla Meyer SFGATE	"[It] abandons any pretext of sophistication for gloppy sentimentality, sugary pop songs and bawdy humor -- an approach that works about half the time."	NEU
United Kingdom	Jason Caro Radio Times	"Even the most cynical of hearts couldn't fail to be lifted by the charm of the characters and their romantic dilemmas (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	J.R. Jones Chicago Reader	"This is cloying, deceitful, and more or less irresistible"	NEU
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"A blizzard of Christmas stories, each insubstantial as a snowflake, but cumulatively they smother you in good cheer"	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"'Love Actually' is appealing and genial with plenty of solid laughs, and worthy of a recommendation for those who appreciate this kind of thing (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[It] is put together with professionalism and care (...) None of the little plots is all that funny or humanly convincing and none has room to breathe or develop (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Caroline Westbrook Empire	"A fairly entertaining way to spend a couple of hours, and it's great to see so many of the UK's best actors sharing screen space (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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