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Wimbledon
Universal Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for language, sexuality and partial nudity
Starring
Kirsten Dunst,
Paul Bettany,
Jon Favreau,
Sam Neill,
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau,
and
Austin Nichols
A sweet and funny tale of romance across the net between an unlucky wild card player (Bettany) and an American star (Dunst) at Wimbledon. (Universal)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Adam Brooks
Jennifer Flackett
Mark Levin
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Richard Loncraine
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 28, 2004
Video: December 28, 2004
Theatrical: September 17, 2004
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
97 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / UK |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
A sports movie with a quick wit, uncommon grace and a romantic soul.
80
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
Slick, satisfying entertainment, as is the chemistry of Dunst and Bettany.

80
Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
The movie is smart, funny, romantic, and rousing.

78
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
Terribly tender, good-hearted picture.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
This is not a great movie, and you will be able to live quite happily without seeing it, but what it does, it does with a certain welcome warmth.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
A crowd-pleaser.

75
Premiere
Staff (Not Credited)
It's capable and strong direction that hold the audience through the final match, but in the end, it's Paul Bettany's world, and the rest of us are just happy to visit for an hour and a half.

75
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Nothing more than amiable fluff, yet Bettany infuses it with a brazen dash of reality. You believe in him, even when you don't quite believe in the movie.

70
Slate
David Edelstein
A bit of a philosophical muddle, but the climactic tennis scenes are galvanically convincing, with some long, nerve-racking volleys. And the rest of the picture works as "Notting Hill" (1999) with balls--and rackets.

70
Film Threat
Rick Kisonak
You aren't likely to see a film with more warmth and good humor anytime soon or one that does more to give feel good filmmaking a good name.

63
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Bettany is the best thing about the movie. A wonderful dramatic actor, he also proves to be richly skilled at romantic comedy, playing Peter with an easy grace and a droll sense of humor.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
While Bettany and Dunst are both appealing, their chemistry lacks much fizz. As it is, the pair seem less like lovers than bouncy transatlantic cousins.

63
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
As a love story, Wimbledon is a washout. As a meditation on sports psychology, it might help improve your game.

63
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Wimbledon may have its faults, but it's the sort of upbeat fantasy that's tough to resist. Maybe love wins in tennis after all.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
A slick comedy that's more fun than it has any right to be.

60
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Although Wimbledon is a much more conventional film, it still has cleverer-than-average dialogue and sharply drawn subsidiary characters.

60
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
Boasts appealing leads and dazzling court play, but the film never rises above its by-the-numbers plot to generate emotional heat.

60
TV Guide
Angel Cohn
Bettany, previously best known as a supporting player, shoulders the burden of a Hugh Grant-style romantic lead surprisingly well, revealing an offbeat charm.

60
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
The Bjorn Borg of romantic comedies: precise, good-looking, dependable and serviceable, if predictable. It never really heats up, which is too bad.

60
Chicago Reader
Hank Sartin
Never quite settles on a tone, veering from wacky comedy to earnest sports drama to romantic farce. The results are predictably muddled, if mostly harmless.

60
Empire
Angie Errigo
The tennis itself is ridiculously far-fetched, and yet this may still be the best tennis movie ever made.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Surprisingly, the weak link is Dunst, who's previously been the delight of all her movies.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
There's no hiding a hokey love story that undercuts the picture's compelling tennis scenes.

50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
The perfect movie for 14-year-old girls having a slumber party, and a must for everyone else to avoid.

50
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
As messages go, I've certainly heard worse. As movies go, Wimbledon is a generally painless float down a lazy river.

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
An ultra-predictable if essentially painless romantic comedy.

50
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
The cinematic equivalent of a careless foot fault.

50
Portland Oregonian
Karen Karbo
The only genuine laughs come from Peter's self-sabotaging inner monologue.

50
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
The best thing about all of this is Bettany.

50
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Wimbledon is refried "Notting Hill" with a Teen People glaze. The latter movie also gave us an American star cheering up some tired British guy. Wimbledon is blander and far less worth rooting for.

50
Variety
Justin Chang
A fanciful tennis-themed romance that compounds the old dilemma of "Will he get the girl?" with "Will he get the trophy?" But the answers are too predictable and laughs too scattered for this middling Universal release to generate much in the way of humor or suspense.

50
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
The appealing leads have strong chemistry, but it's the wrong kind: an affectionate big-brother/little-sister rapport that leaves a discomfiting taint on their more amorous clinches.

50
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
Director Richard Loncraine (Richard III) moves things right along, but during the final tennis match, his pacing is undone by sports-movie convention, particularly the witless color commentary offered by tennis legends John McEnroe and Chris Evert.

50
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
There's no script to speak of, just two appealing actors volleying comic-romantic cliches at each other.

50
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It's a harmless enough movie, and quite a good-looking one; Bettany and Dunst are an attractive enough couple, even if Lizzie has been written as a selfish little snip and he as a whining man-child.


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