Love Actually

3.17
    Love Actually
    2003

    Synopsis

    Eight London couples try to deal with their relationships in different ways. Their tryst with love makes them discover how complicated relationships can be.

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    Cast

    • Alan RickmanHarry
    • Bill NighyBilly Mack
    • Colin FirthJamie Bennett
    • Emma ThompsonKaren
    • Hugh GrantThe Prime Minister
    • Laura LinneySarah
    • Liam NeesonDaniel
    • Martine McCutcheonNatalie
    • Andrew LincolnMark
    • Keira KnightleyJuliet

    Recommendations

    • 80

      Variety

      A roundly entertaining romantic comedy, Love Actually is still nearly as cloying as it is funny…its cheeky wit, impossibly attractive cast and sure-handed professionalism are beguiling.
    • 75

      ReelViews

      Appealing and genial with plenty of solid laughs, and worthy of a recommendation for those who appreciate this kind of thing. Just don't expect material that's edgy, dark, or challenging. Consider Love Actually the antidote to "Mystic River."
    • 70

      Time

      Enough of Curtis' lovably crazed characters do succeed in finding love in all the unlikely places that you leave the theater with your heart humming happily. He has his dark -- well, darkish -- side under control. Which is to say that he is an Englishman, well practiced in masking pain and absurdity and descents into sheer goofiness with mannerly behavior, sly irony and stiff upper lips.
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Reminds you of an elaborate Christmas card that tumbles apart with pop-up figures, silly/charming greetings and perhaps even a jingle. It probably cost more than the gift it heralds, and you can't help but laugh at the audacity of such an aggressively cheerful card.
    • 70

      The A.V. Club

      Provides enough happy endings to make the audience forget that romance and Christmas miracles don't always work out.
    • 60

      Newsweek

      Alternately beguiling and bloated, witty and warmed over, smart and pandering. The majority is likely to swoon; the minority will squirm their way through it.
    • 60

      Dallas Observer

      Feels less like a brand-new movie than a greatest-hits compendium. It offers nothing new and instead makes do with presenting the warmed-over like something pulled fresh from the oven.
    • 50

      Rolling Stone

      Curtis ladles sugar over the eager-to-please Love Actually to make it go down easy, forgetting that sometimes it just makes you gag.

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