Sleepless In Seattle balances romance and realism by giving its central characters two different but equally pragmatic philosophies on love.

| Jan 25, 2019

"Sleepless in Seattle" (citywide), a real charmer, is a romantic comedy about an ultimate long-distance relationship. Emphasize "romantic." Emphasize "comedy." It delivers both.

| Jan 25, 2019

Self-consciousness infects Nora Ephron's sweet but perilously thin love story, Sleepless in Seattle...such are the perils of these postmodernist times: even our love stories feed off borrowed emotion.

| Mar 20, 2018

A movie to which director and co-writer Nora Ephron brought her terrific flair, wit and nous, although she propagates the terrifying fallacy that a widower makes a wonderful romantic catch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2014

Don't get me wrong: I have no objection to shamelessly corny love stories that make you well up with tearful joy. I just don't like it when the movie does the welling up for you.

| Original Score: C | Sep 7, 2011

Mostly, Sleepless in Seattle leaves you feeling restless in the audience.

| Feb 2, 2009

If one can ignore all the straining for lightness here, this is watchable enough, though hardly anything resembling a tearjerker.

| Feb 2, 2009

Ephron and fellow writers Jeff Arch and David S. Ward have conspired to make Sleepless in Seattle as purposefully schmaltzy as one can imagine, in a manner that's almost cynical.

| Jul 22, 2008

It's easily the hippest, frankest and funniest date movie around.

| Aug 26, 2006

The schmaltzy soundtrack is overdone, but cameraman Sven Nykvist wraps it all up in an appropriately warm glow.

| Feb 9, 2006

Nora Ephron's Sleepless in Seattle is a feather-light romantic comedy about two lovers who meet for the first time in the last reel. It's a stunt, but it's a stunt that works far more effectively than anybody in his right mind has reason to expect.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 20, 2003

Overrated but still cute love story.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2002

Ryan and Hanks, even apart, have the chemistry to make a very agreeable entertainment.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2001

Sleepless in Seattle is hopelessly romantic.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

We fall -- and I think a lot of people will fall hard for this movie -- even though we know we shouldn't.

| Jan 1, 2000

A quick check of the exiting audience found many smiling -- and still clutching tissues.

| Jan 1, 2000

Not one of the cleverer rom-coms of this ilk... but sweet and touching nevertheless and Tom Hanks is always watchable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Sleepless in Seattle is as ephemeral as a talk show, as contrived as the late show, and yet so warm and gentle I smiled the whole way through.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

[Ephron] gets the corn without the smolder.

| Original Score: C | Jun 25, 1993