| 90 |
Variety
Lael Lowenstein
The most successful version yet of this familiar premise.
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| 88 |
Boston Globe
Warm, smart, and funny!
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| 80 |
The New York Times
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.
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| 78 |
Austin Chronicle
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.
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| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly
A perfectly enjoyable star vehicle that does exactly what it sets out to do. [7 May 1999, p.66]
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| 75 |
ReelViews
A feel-good movie that offers enough comedy and romance to warm the heart without risking a sentimental overdose.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Boasts a collection of oddball characters, some more sharply written than others.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
The appeal of You've Got Mail is as old as love and as new as the Web.
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| 70 |
Newsweek
Ultimately achieves that lump in the throat that is the romantic comedy's promised land.
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| 70 |
Slate
The movie, without seeming to realize it, turns into a romantic parable about the joys of being absorbed by a conglomerate.
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| 70 |
Time
Ginia Bellafante
Ephron refreshingly stands out as the nation's foremost advocate of mind-meld. [21 Dec 1998, p. 74]
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| 63 |
San Francisco Examiner
Jane Ganahl
Too many questions are raised with no good answers.
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| 63 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
Hanks and Ryan are as appealing as ever, and Ephron's fashion-conscious camera gives the action a slickly attractive sheen.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
The 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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| 40 |
TV Guide
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.
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| 40 |
Salon.com
Laura Miller
It's as if the whole movie's on Prozac, only in this case the antidepressants are cuteness and romance.
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| 30 |
Washington Post
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.
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| 0 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Takes almost two self-infatuated, smarmy, condescending, cringe-inducingly sentimental hours to reach its pre-ordained conclusion.
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