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You've Got Mail

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 19 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 10 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Romance
Written by:
Nora Ephron
Delia Ephron
Miklós László (play Parfumerie)
Directed by: Nora Ephron
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 18, 1998
DVD: May 4, 1999
Running Time: 119 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG for some language
Starring Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Parker Posey, Jean Stapleton, Steve Zahn, Heather Burns, and David Chappelle
A romantic comedy set in the age of e-mail.
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FILM: Bewitched Lucky Numbers Mixed Nuts
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What The Critics Said
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...
Variety Lael Lowenstein
The most successful version yet of this familiar premise.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
Warm, smart, and funny!
The New York Times Elvis Mitchell
The film's mix of romance and reading matter is seductive in its own right, providing comfy book-lined settings and people who are what they read and write.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Steve Davis
A valentine to the happenstance miracle of lovers and other strangers, a movie that regards modern romance as something that is, ultimately, old-fashioned to its core.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Ty Burr
A perfectly enjoyable star vehicle that does exactly what it sets out to do. [7 May 1999, p.66]
ReelViews James Berardinelli
A feel-good movie that offers enough comedy and romance to warm the heart without risking a sentimental overdose.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein
Boasts a collection of oddball characters, some more sharply written than others.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The appeal of You've Got Mail is as old as love and as new as the Web.
Read Full Review >Newsweek David Ansen
Ultimately achieves that lump in the throat that is the romantic comedy's promised land.
Read Full Review >Slate David Edelstein
The movie, without seeming to realize it, turns into a romantic parable about the joys of being absorbed by a conglomerate.
Read Full Review >Time Ginia Bellafante
Ephron refreshingly stands out as the nation's foremost advocate of mind-meld. [21 Dec 1998, p. 74]
San Francisco Examiner Jane Ganahl
Too many questions are raised with no good answers.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
This is filmmaking as a minor feat of engineering, the kind where even the gossamer emotions seem like prefab components -- charm, whimsy, serendipity, all so many discs plugged into the hard drive.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Hanks and Ryan are as appealing as ever, and Ephron's fashion-conscious camera gives the action a slickly attractive sheen.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
The coincidences that make the destined lovers' paths cross aren't contrived with much finesse, but the characters get in some decidedly clever lines.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
In a film about the ruthless corporate destruction of small businesses, it's hard not to flinch at the prominent placement accorded IBM, Starbucks and AOL logos.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Laura Miller
It's as if the whole movie's on Prozac, only in this case the antidepressants are cuteness and romance.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
Made me feel like a Christmas goose being fattened for slaughter. Its force-fed diet of whimsy cloyed long before the eagerly anticipated romantic payoff arrived to put me out of my misery.
The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Takes almost two self-infatuated, smarmy, condescending, cringe-inducingly sentimental hours to reach its pre-ordained conclusion.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.3 (out of 10) based on 10 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
dave c gave it a10:
I loved this movie. Meg Ryan was adorable!
Rita P. gave it a1:
Truly painful cinematic experience. How can accompolished actors like Hanks and Ryan involve themselves in such tripe? And Alice Z...oh my god, you cannot be serious?
Alice Z gave it a10:
This is still my favorite romantic comedy of all time! So cute and funny. I love it!
matt a. gave it a2:
Ah, what an original and thought-provoking film..Wait.....nope. Admittedly though, this is probably Ms. Ephron's best film, which pretty much means that it is about on par with some of Pauly Shore's best work. Only somewhat redeeming quality is tom hanks (why did he agree to star in this crap again?).
Pat C. gave it a 3:
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to either bestow rigorous attention and force of thought as befits application of solid evaluatory process to a cinematic presentation, or simply taking a nap, this film makes the second choice imperative.
