A fun movie I enjoy

| Apr 7, 2025

While it’s no Saving Private Ryan (which it absurdly beat for the Best Picture Academy Award mainly due to Miramax head Harvey Weinstein’s bullying, Oscar-mongering campaign), it remains a witty romantic comedy.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 2, 2025

Tom Stoppard’s script is a playful delight; the tone is exuberant and lively.

| Nov 1, 2023

A sweet and whimsical love story

| Jun 27, 2023

Shakespeare and de Lesseps are both written as fairly uninteresting figures and we are meant to simply admire the beauty of Paltrow and Fiennes...

| Feb 7, 2023

Though set in the Bard's 16th Century, Shakespeare in Love is hipper, smarter and cleverer than any contemporary romantic comedy in recent memory.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 5, 2023

Though weakened by feeble leads, Shakespeare in Love is nicely pepped by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard's malicious script and a slew of great supporting performances.

| Jan 5, 2023

[Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes] send this wildly creative comedy spiraling into heights so exhilarating that even the Bard would have given it a standing ovation.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 5, 2023

To quote Shakespeare, "A good wit will make use of anything" -- and there are plenty of good wits making use of history, romance, laughter and boundless imagination in the delicious comedy Shakespeare in Love.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 4, 2023

Also of significant weight is the music by Stephen Warbeck, who has crafted stirring themes that sneak into the movie at all the right spots.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Sep 24, 2020

Outside the romance, it's also got great depth and insight into the nature of showbusiness.

| May 18, 2020

A wonderful combination of the old-fashioned and the new.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 11, 2020

In a little more than two hours, director John Madden, screenwriters Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard and a terrific cast and crew accomplish the miraculous.

| Dec 18, 2018

....the echoes of passionate Shakespeare will linger in the memory and the most pleasant memories of the spectator. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 2, 2018

It almost defies you not to have fun.

| Mar 2, 2018

...very well calculated and balanced. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Mar 2, 2018

Shakespeare in Love lives up to its name with its joyous sensuality.

| Feb 28, 2018

A good cast, if you can forget for a moment the protagonist, Joseph Fiennes. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 27, 2018

A sprightly valentine to the heady world of comedy, drama, romance, art, commerce and language that is the theater.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 22, 2016

There's so much to like about this film, which is giddily romantic, funny and clever, chock-full of Shakespearean touches like doomed love, mistaken identity and men dressing as women and women dressing as men.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 22, 2016