As I’ve gotten older, my affection for the story still lingers.

| Dec 5, 2022

The most worthwhile tension in You've Got Mail lies in the simple but pure ecstasy of receiving an email from a person you are excited about. Long live the parts of the film that refurbish the excitement of our sometimes-misguided yearnings.

| Oct 2, 2020

What Nora and Delia Ephron do is update The Shop Around the Corner for the digital era. Or at least how the era looked in the mid-1990s.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 9, 2020

It's the emotional complexity of Kathleen's interior journey that still resonates.

| Jan 23, 2020

It's surprising how relevant this movie feels, even 20 years later. But it's not just nostalgia or deep themes that keep bringing us back, it's everything!

| Aug 21, 2019

It is chock full of Nora Ephron's perfect writing.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Feb 28, 2019

"You've Got Mail" is a messed up story of early 90s catfishing. Watch it for the city/apartment/style porn, but don't let the Ephrons (or Tom Hanks) fool you: Joe is scum.

| Oct 24, 2018

A great big hug of a film.

| Jul 2, 2012

The coincidences that make the destined lovers' paths cross aren't contrived with much finesse, but the characters get in some decidedly clever lines.

| May 27, 2011

The well-honed dramedic performances by endearingly mock-cranky Hanks and quirky, cryin' Ryan add just enough weight to what might otherwise float away...[Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 11, 2011

Predictable-but-sweet romantic comedy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 29, 2010

Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan and America Online. Could you be anymore 1990s?

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 20, 2010

...you've got a lot of saccharine sweetness in the film, but it's a good kind of sweetness, a gentle, loveable, delightful sweetness.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 29, 2008

The clumsily loaded characterisation not only treats almost every other figure as dispensable, but doesn't even bother to make Meg and Tom properly sympathetic.

| Feb 9, 2006

Mail may not be as romantic as Sleepless, but it's wittier.

Full Review | Jul 21, 2005

You've Got Mail is not as saccharine as I expected, but the sugar-coated love story offers us nothing new or original.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 9, 2005

There's no denying the on-screen chemistry between Hanks and Ryan, but still it never really seems to spark as much as it did in Sleepless in Seattle.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 2, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/10 | Oct 7, 2004

There is something marvelously contrived about this classic situation: two attractive and incongruous characters who don't know what we know:They belong with each, and when the heck will they get together?

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2003

You've Got Mail is probably not as engaging as Sleepless, with which it will inevitably be compared, but it has its moments.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003