Kate & Leopold
Miramax Films | Release Date: December 21, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
15
Negative:
5
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80
TimeRichard Schickel
Given that this holiday film season has come up more than a little short on love and laughter, one can easily forgive Kate & Leopold the slightly excessive lengths and complications to which it goes in search of those rare commodities.
75
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
For the first half-hour I, too, demurred. And then the irresistible force that is Hugh Jackman -- or was it his swoony Leopold? -- swept me off my seat and into the movie. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeJay Carr
It's a charmer.
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Meg Ryan does this sort of thing about as well as it can possibly be done, and after "Sleepless in Seattle" and "You've Got Mail," here is another ingenious plot that teases us with the possibility that true love will fail, while winking that, of course, it will prevail. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
This winning confection, from a director (Heavy, Cop Land) not known for the lightness of his material or his touch, shows a fine understanding of what the screenwriters of the '40s instinctively grasped, that good screwball is about dialogue and chemistry. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
It's no myth: All play and no work makes Jackman, as Leopold, a doll of a boyfriend. Read full review
63
New York PostJonathan Foreman
Has its heart in the right place -- and in a season filled with somber or goopy Oscar contenders, it makes a perfectly decent date movie. Read full review
60
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Director and co-writer James Mangold (Girl, Interrupted) is supplying comfort food for bruised romantics. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Has only the most tangential relation to reality, and therein lies its slender charm. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
A flawed time-travel love story, benefits from Meg Ryan's reliable perkiness and establishes Australia's Hugh Jackman as a potent romantic leading man. These and other pluses, however, cannot overcome the film's inability to come alive for a full hour and 20 minutes. Read full review
50
Film ThreatMichael Dequina
There's no question that Meg Ryan is the queen of romantic comedies. Yet for every piece of frothy fluff that works -- there comes a couple where you just want to say, "Enough already." Kate & Leopold is one such movie. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleCarla Meyer
The role of Kate, a spunky but romantically unfulfilled marketing expert, seems made for Ryan. Unfortunately, Ryan no longer seems made for it. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Not very believable, even in relation to its own premises, but if you were charmed by "Somewhere in Time" and/or Jack Finney's novel "Time and Again," this might charm you as well. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Once it settles down, it becomes a star-making vehicle for Jackman, and a supremely polished example of the sort of swoony love story cherished by women who secretly hope that some day their prince will come. Read full review
50
VarietyLael Loewenstein
A time-travel romantic comedy whose best elements -- Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman -- overcome distracting plot holes, loose threads and assorted contrivances to make for a mostly charming and diverting tale. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Lacking in originality. Read full review
42
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
Progressively sabotaged by poor technical quality, terrible plotting, a glaring lack of directorial skill and finesse, scenes that have no credibility and/or motivation and an astounding sloppiness to its historical detail. Read full review
42
Portland OregonianKim Morgan
America's favorite romantic comedian is miscast in Kate & Leopold -- a disappointment with the warm and charming Jackman around. Read full review
40
New Times (L.A.)Bill Gallo
Mangold gets stuck in the gooey sweet spots of his tale a little more often than he breaks loose with a bracing jolt of perversity. Read full review
40
SalonStephanie Zacharek
The problem with Kate & Leopold is that although this is supposed to be a romantic comedy, the best scenes are the ones in which there's no Ryan. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Reasonably entertaining time-travel romance.
40
Austin ChronicleMarrit Ingman
There's nothing terribly wrong with Kate & Leopold -- it's just an awfully conventional upmarket romantic comedy. Read full review
38
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Has the sex appeal of a Road Runner cartoon, one-tenth the laughs and equal plausibility. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
An oppressively cute Manhattan time-travel romantic comedy that’s lost in time, space and cliches. Read full review
30
Washington PostRita Kempley
It just isn't a Meg Ryan movie unless she's got male. Read full review
20
Village VoiceDennis Lim
The shabby metaphysics and complete absence of internal logic are perhaps meant to charm, but only add to the eye-gouging irritant factor. Read full review
20
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Is Meg Ryan going to play the goofy romantic gal forever? Read full review
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