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Down With Love Reviews

It left me so giddy I watched it twice.

| May 20, 2020

Hilarious spoof on '60s comedies for mature 14+.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 22, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 2, 2003

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 30, 2003

If only the script was better this would be one of the great pleasures of the summer. Unfortunately, as it is onscreen, it's only a great missed opportunity. What a shame.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 19, 2003

I think it compares favorably with Pillow Talk and Lover Come Back in its well-timed gags and verbal dexterity.

| May 23, 2003

After 10 minutes of getting poked in the ribs with every shot, I thought, 'Is it going to be like this for 90 minutes?'

| May 23, 2003

We want to love it, but like a Rock Hudson rake, we keep finding fault in its allure. We want to hate it, but like Doris Day, we finally can't say no.

| May 21, 2003

I love this film.

Full Review | May 19, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 18, 2003

This pitch-perfect imitation of a Rock Hudson-Doris Day nonsex comedy features Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor and a passel of visual delights. But why should we care?

| May 17, 2003

It's a cute premise, and several co-stars help keep the fun going for a while.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 16, 2003

McGregor is divine as Catcher Block and Zellweger plays her part to pouty perfection.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 16, 2003

Like a champagne bottle left uncorked, it's not as fizzy as it should be.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 16, 2003

A very smart, very shrewd movie, and the smartest, shrewdest thing about it is the way it masquerades as just a fluffy comedy, a diversion, a trifle.

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 16, 2003

Both leads bounce and bubble. But they seem too often to be playing at being 1960s archetypes instead of rendering characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 16, 2003

It's too dull and hackneyed for the satirical spoof it intends to be, and the actors and director miss the charm and humor of the old Doris Day movies by a margin so wide it doesn't add up to a respectful homage, either.

| May 16, 2003

This might have worked if love triumphed, but mush gets lost in the crush of labored mocking and gleeful artifice.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | May 16, 2003

The complete lack of authentic feeling in this film as well as its obsession with period without finding any meaning in that period doom it.

Full Review | Original Score: D | May 16, 2003

While you were hypnotized by the bossa nova and Renee Zellweger's form-fitting pink Givenchy and the rat-a-tat dialogue of the gender wars, the writers and the director tricked you into caring about the plot.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 16, 2003

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