The film curiously avoids exploring the complexities of introducing the Beatles’s music into a radically different milieu.
Stephen Daldry, working from Richard Curtis’s exploitative script, opts for a full-on Slumdog Millionaire imitation.
A surprisingly thoughtful romantic comedy that shirks a great deal of reason and consequence in the name of love.
A gorgeous transfer of another bracing Spielberg oddity.
This is a film of unimpeachable craft, even occasional lyricism, that somehow turns an amazing horse into a boring one.
Pirate Radio is based in reality the way a kite is based wherever its holder is standing at the moment.
In the end, it brings us back to reality with the reminder that a condition like depression is not to be negated by one moment of joy.
Writer-director Richard Curtis is about as rock ‘n’ roll as the average great-grandmother.
Love Actually actually is the greatest modern Christmas movie.
In the end, the film succeeds only in applauding a materialistic, self-absorbed audience’s pop-cultural cheekiness.
Feel-good schmaltz creeps into every nook and cranny of writer-director Richard Curtis’s Love Actually.