Love Actually is aided by its charming cast of A-list British stars and the storylines that are executed well, though the flaws are still present.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 13, 2025

Love Actually is for the hopeless romantics and idealists of this world, but those just looking for a warm and comfortably predictable experience should enjoy the movie too.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 23, 2024

The ensemble nature of Love Actually has always drawn audiences into the festivities. Of course, that also means some narratives work and others do not.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 15, 2024

Set to the backdrop of Christmas, Love Actually finds believability in the unbelievable, crafting an environment where anything can happen and the greatest risks should be taken.

| Jan 12, 2024

The film is all but stolen... by Bill Nighy as a washed up rock star goofing his way through his holiday 온라인카지노추천 and radio appearances as his seasonal song climbs the charts.

| Jan 6, 2024

... Curtis and company remind us that love, actually, is everywhere no matter the time of year, period, or place. That’s what helps make it a staple watch this and any other time of year.

| Dec 14, 2023

A cringe 10 for the price of one bulk holiday sale of the most well-worn rom-com tropes.

| Dec 11, 2023

The film simply has an attractive charm about it that pulls you in and keeps you interested.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 21, 2023

Richard Curtis’ Love Actually claims the prize of being the “ultimate romantic comedy” not through daring or originality, but by covering every cliché imaginable offered by the genre, and doing so with style.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 28, 2023

...while Curtis clearly connects more with some stories than others, the best bits are genuinely classics...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 27, 2021

The work is lopsided and misshapen, not like life, but a poor, contrived, somewhat disoriented impression of life.

| Feb 15, 2021

A load of sickeningly twee nonsense inflated, bizarrely, into some kind of totemic Christmas film that only humbugs suggest might not just be rubbish.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 31, 2021

It's almost a shock to see such a well constructed and beautifully acted scene (Emma Thompson opening her present) amid the rest of this film's more mainstream machinations.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 27, 2021

A collection of touching sketches that are frequently sentimental yet thoroughly grand.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 6, 2020

It's a tremendous romantic comedy that far outshines most American comedies.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 14, 2020

Curtis pulls off a spectacular feat of screenwriting, expertly defining 16 principal characters and their relationships, providing each one with a beginning, middle, and end, and making us care about what happens to all of them.

| Jul 23, 2020

There's so much right and yummy about this multi-tiered plum cake of a romantic comedy.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 27, 2020

The film exhibits a real soft spot for sexual predators, while also promoting the notion that Christmas is the perfect time to publicly dump your love on the near-stranger you're tenderly stalking.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 10, 2019

Now, though, Curtis, England's most successful comic screenwriter, has shown that when it comes to Hollywood pap, the English can teach Hollywood a treacly trick or two.

| Nov 5, 2019

This plum pudding of a romantic comedy is rich with delicious moments.

| Nov 5, 2019