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90The most successful version yet of this familiar premise.
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88Warm, smart, and funny!
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80The 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.
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78A 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.
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75The appeal of You've Got Mail is as old as love and as new as the Web.
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75Boasts a collection of oddball characters, some more sharply written than others.
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75A feel-good movie that offers enough comedy and romance to warm the heart without risking a sentimental overdose.
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75A perfectly enjoyable star vehicle that does exactly what it sets out to do. [7 May 1999, p.66]
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70Ultimately achieves that lump in the throat that is the romantic comedy's promised land.
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70The movie, without seeming to realize it, turns into a romantic parable about the joys of being absorbed by a conglomerate.
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70Ephron refreshingly stands out as the nation's foremost advocate of mind-meld. [21 Dec 1998, p. 74]
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Too many questions are raised with no good answers.
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63This 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.
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50Hanks and Ryan are as appealing as ever, and Ephron's fashion-conscious camera gives the action a slickly attractive sheen.
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50The coincidences that make the destined lovers' paths cross aren't contrived with much finesse, but the characters get in some decidedly clever lines.
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40In 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.
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40It's as if the whole movie's on Prozac, only in this case the antidepressants are cuteness and romance.
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30Made 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.
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0Takes almost two self-infatuated, smarmy, condescending, cringe-inducingly sentimental hours to reach its pre-ordained conclusion.
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davec10I loved this movie. Meg Ryan was adorable!
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AliceZ10This is still my favorite romantic comedy of all time! So cute and funny. I love it!