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By Jeanne Aufmuth (581) for Palo Alto Weekly (965) on 13 May 2003

Amusing, romantic, historic and immensely clever…

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By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 10 Jan 2003

John Madden's first film after the stately but exceptionally closed-off Mrs…

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By Merle Bertrand (62) for Film Threat (5,156) on 08 Dec 2002

Shakespeare in Love is a great date movie; that rarest of 'chick flicks' that all can enjoy. Even crabby cynics…

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By Kevin N. Laforest (610) for Montreal Film Journal (589) on 09 Sep 2002

This film is very entertaining, and it's the most sophisticated and mature romance of the year…

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By Marty Mapes (591) for Movie Habit (892) on 20 Aug 2002

Hardly deserving of 13 Oscar nominations and 7 Oscars, this film is nevertheless an entertaining bit of fluff…

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By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 24 Mar 2002

Although determinedly lightweight, Shakespeare in Love is a self-reflexive ode to the power of art and love that at times is worthy of its namesake…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 28 Feb 2002

A beautifully realized tribute to the rush of imagination as one of the great creative force fields in the universe…

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By Norman Green (8) for Film.com (1,892) on 23 Feb 2002

If she (Paltrow) were the only good thing about Shakespeare in Love, it still would have been worth seeing; that she is the crown jewel in…

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By Barry Johnson (19) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 03 Aug 2001

Like Amadeus, Shakespeare in Love works splendidly as an appreciation of an artist in the heat of creation, and it breathes life into Romeo…

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By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 08 Jul 2001

Good fun, though not more than up-market situation comedy studded with the usual leaps out of period-speak to swipe at contemporary Hollywood…

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By Karina Montgomery (580) for Cinerina (549) on 13 Jun 2001

Shakespeare in Love is a delight on every level of movie-going...This is why people go to the movies…

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By John J. Puccio (1,217) for Movie Metropolis (1,779) on 07 Apr 2001

it works wonderfully, giving audiences that wouldn't normally sit through an Elizabethan play the chance to understand and be amused by…

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By David Sterritt (1,643) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 20 Dec 2000

This romantic farce has a talented cast and energy to spare, but somehow the ingredients don't burn as brightly as one would expect from such…

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By Marjorie Baumgarten (1,950) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 01 Jan 2000

A frothy romantic comedy that is equally nourished with truisms of historic lore and modern sensibility…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 01 Jan 2000

This is a movie full of moments, and performances, to savor…

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By Joe Baltake (424) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 01 Jan 2000

Paltrow and Fiennes make an irresistible team…

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By Janet Maslin (949) for New York Times (5,786) on 01 Jan 2000

Gwyneth Paltrow, in her first great, fully realized starring performance, makes a heroine so breathtaking that she seems utterly plausible…

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By Laura Miller (37) for Salon.com (2,725) on 01 Jan 2000

Not even Stoppard is Shakespeare, and the end result resembles one of Neil Simon's middlebrow romps more than it does As You Like It…

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By Ian Nathan (392) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 01 Jan 2000

A rom-com with added smarts for the literature scholars, which doesn't alienate everyone else…

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By Carlo Cavagna (228) for AboutFilm.com (228) on 01 Jan 2000

Quite accessible even if you haven't seen or read any of Shakespeare's work…

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