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75The movie is bright, the dialogue has wit and intelligence, and Roberts and Grant are very easy to like. By the end, as much as we're aware of the ancient story machinery groaning away below deck, we're smiling.
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63Notting Hill does an adequate job, but this isn't one of those landmark romantic comedies that dozens of subsequent movies will seek to emulate.
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70Roberts fans will, of course, be delighted to see her in a role that plays to all her strengths -- fresh-faced looks, charming gangliness, air of infinite approachability -- and neatly sidesteps her glaring inability to act by having her more or less play herself.
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75There's some very funny dialogue, but the picture falls apart when it tries to think real thoughts about celebrity, publicity, and the media.
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91Blithe and exhilarating romantic comedy.
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70A smartly cast and consistently amusing romantic comedy.
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80In the end, the movie works because Grant and Roberts are disarming geniuses at playing themselves -- and then some.
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91A pure, sweet romance that moves along with bouncy comedy and a touch of grown-up realism and rue.
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63In the slow coast down Notting Hill, we approach the blessed land of Nodding Off.
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91It's pure fluff, but as irresistible as cotton candy.
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100The overall result is a romantic comedy that indulges fantasies, calms insecurities (can an ordinary bloke stack up?), and breaks and mends hearts with surgical precision.
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30It's an English movie doing its best to masquerade as the shallowest kind of Hollywood romantic comedy, as if somewhere along the way someone had made a calculated supposition that would be the only kind of comedy American audiences would buy.
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70It may boil down to little more than a minor variation on Four Weddings' formula, but it's an interesting and entertaining one.
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80So the film has this weird postmodernist taint: It has a self-aware script that cleverly plays off the reality of its own cast and their famous real-life contretemps. It's smart and knowing.
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50The result is two films: a big, dreary star vehicle that sags whenever its leads spend quality time together, and a mettlesome British caper whose nutsosecondary characters walk away with the movie.
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80A brainy weave of satire and fantasy.
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70At once a light comedy and a reasonably serious meditation on the perils of fame.
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70The movie has lots of glossy charm even if Ms. Roberts and Grant seem less like lovers than members of a support group for the desperately attractive.
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80Has buckets to spare of that rarest screen commodity — genuine, engaging charm.
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30It is not, the filmmakers stress, a sequel to "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (which writer Richard Curtis was also responsible for), but it fits the latter-day Hollywood definition of the term -- same movie, only worse.
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75The deft, hilarious Notting Hill finds Grant's dour-droll-deprecating affliction at its most dead-on.
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88Its deadpan wit, ingenious fairy-tale premise and superbly accomplished cast will leave you feeling positively oxygenated.
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100It comes as a bonus that this romantic comedy is one of the rare pictures of its type that actually is about something -- the double-edged sword of celebrity.
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70A piece of fluff that can be enjoyed without guilt.
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50It has to be noted that the use of music in this film is the worse in recent memory: maudlin, syrupy, and overwrought.
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82A smart, sometimes pissingly funny romantic comedy that is also oddly unmoving and predictable in spots.
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It's funny, sympathetic, mostly smart, and it boasts a likable cast of characters led by two performers who have star power and know how to use it.
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The frothy, feel-good Notting Hill is about as enchanting as movies get these days.
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Funny, bright, sly, and unabashedly romantic, Notting Hill combines fluffy, fairy-tale fantasy with big laughs, snappy dialogue, and small moments of pain and unease to create a surprisingly satisfying two hours.
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90It's irresistible.
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70Adorable, if uneven, romantic comedy.
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Notting Hill offers another example of moviemakers consoling themselves about how tough it is to be famous while congratulating themselves on how down-to-earth they really are.
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70If you're looking for Julia Roberts (circa "Pretty Woman") playing, well, herself, and Hugh Grant (circa "Four Weddings and A Funeral") playing, well, himself, then you're in luck.
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Capo10This film could be the best classics of all time.
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EllisA.9This movie is suck a feel good movie. You can watch it at all times, it cheers up every moment! It's lovely!