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| NOTTING HILL (1998) - PG-13
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ReviewScore: 66 out of 100
SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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The romantic comedy, Notting Hill could offer some significant competition to Star Wars this weekend, as the film scores a number of enthusiastic reviews and predictions that it will also attract positive word-of-mouth. Says Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post: "The film represents the good news that even as the delicate genre of romantic comedy veers toward the straits of destruction, some people still remember how to do it." The secret of the film's accomplishment, Phillip Wuntch of the Dallas Morning News suggests, is that "you genuinely care about the partners-in-romance." For Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times, it's easy to see why the film is likely to become a hit: "The movie is bright, the dialogue has wit and intelligence, and Roberts and Grant are very easy to like." And Jay Carr of the Boston Globe adds: "Notting Hill is the winning romantic comedy every summer not only awaits, but counts on." The film receives only a handful of negative notices, among them, John Anderson's in Newsday, who faults the film for failing to reveal an "underlying romantic sparkle," trying instead to "jam down our throats" a sense of "faux-realism." |
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