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75Last Chance Harvey is a tremendously appealing love story surrounded by a movie not worthy of it.
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75Slight but utterly charming.
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75Last Chance Harvey is the "Before Sunrise" for the over-45 set.
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75Harvey is so thin it barely registers as a movie, yet these two actors - British apples and American oranges in their respective approaches to character - almost miraculously weave something memorable out of nothing much.
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75Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson bring credibility to Last Chance Harvey merely by their presence. The result is a holiday parfait.
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75It's a pleasure to see mature portraits of adult characters who put their vulnerabilities on the line. I enjoyed my time in the company of these strangers.
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Small and surprisingly hopeful film, with beautifully attenuated performances by Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson.
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70There's something irresistible about watching two people fall in love, even in contrived, sniffle- and sometimes gag-inducing films like Last Chance Harvey.
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70Stars Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson (reunited after 2006's "Stranger Than Fiction") are so disarmingly charming that even the most treacly moments work an emotional magic.
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70Winds up being a touching portrait of that rarity in the movies: a recognizably human couple with recognizably human problems and quirks.
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67Hoffman and Thompson are each good enough to bring out a glow in the other.
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67Basically "Before Sunrise" for middle-aged people, only with less interesting conversations and a more formulaic construction.
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63Last Chance Harvey is what it is: a pleasant put-up job, held up by world-class pros.
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63Provides the rare pleasure of a blossoming romance between two people older than Kate Hudson or Ryan Reynolds.
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63Sappy, sentimental and redeemed only by the quiet radiance and fidgety intelligence of its leads, Last Chance Harvey is a fantasy about mopey middle-agers getting a second chance at love.
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60Imagine Paddy Chayefsky's "Marty" saddled with more sentimentality and sprinkled with a few more laughs and you pretty much have Last Chance Harvey.
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60This mundane romantic comedy is notable for one reason only: its leading couple.
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60Undemanding, observant and beautifully performed, this is Richard Curtis-lite with added reassurance: no challenging questions here.
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50Distinctly middling, London-set romance.
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50This movie is genial, forgettable piffle about the perhaps-beginning of a maybe affair. It's a romantic daydream so slim that it barely leaves the requisite sweet aftertaste.
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50Last Chance Harvey is so much an "actors' film" that the hand of the director seems hidden until it bursts into view with something clunky.
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Besides being old pros who could elevate such schmaltz in their sleep, Hoffman and Thompson -- despite the 20-plus years between them, and her graceful restraint in contrast to his creepy assertiveness -- have a genuinely sweet chemistry, which is the exact and only reason to seek this one out.
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50A good chance to see two superb actors having their way with wafer-thin material.
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50Lately, most of Dustin Hoffman's roles have been grinning crackpots or talking animals, so accepting the 71-year-old actor as a romantic lead who could fetch the likes of Emma Thompson requires some suspension of disbelief.
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50If nothing else, Last Chance Harvey proves that you're never too old to be the subject of a zany trying-on-dresses montage, but considering the prestige of its leads, that's a minor victory at best.
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50All this gloomy masochism is made palatable because of the performers. And yet we must ask: Is this any way to show off two of our finest actors?
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25Witless banter might have won Ginger Rogers for Fred Astaire, but Thompson is too smart for that.
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TonyB.6Quite appealing, with not a villain in sight.
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