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34 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardThe overall result is a romantic comedy that indulges fantasies, calms insecurities (can an ordinary bloke stack up?), and breaks and mends hearts with surgical precision.
- 80VarietyDerek ElleyVarietyDerek ElleyHas buckets to spare of that rarest screen commodity — genuine, engaging charm.
- 80Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonIn the end, the movie works because Grant and Roberts are disarming geniuses at playing themselves -- and then some.
- 75San Francisco ExaminerWesley MorrisSan Francisco ExaminerWesley MorrisThe deft, hilarious Notting Hill finds Grant's dour-droll-deprecating affliction at its most dead-on.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie is bright, the dialogue has wit and intelligence, and Roberts and Grant are very easy to like. By the end, as much as we're aware of the ancient story machinery groaning away below deck, we're smiling.
- 70Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranA smartly cast and consistently amusing romantic comedy.
- 70TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghRoberts fans will, of course, be delighted to see her in a role that plays to all her strengths -- fresh-faced looks, charming gangliness, air of infinite approachability -- and neatly sidesteps her glaring inability to act by having her more or less play herself.
- 70The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsIt may boil down to little more than a minor variation on Four Weddings' formula, but it's an interesting and entertaining one.
- 70Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorChicago ReaderLisa AlspectorAt once a light comedy and a reasonably serious meditation on the perils of fame.
- 50L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorThe result is two films: a big, dreary star vehicle that sags whenever its leads spend quality time together, and a mettlesome British caper whose nutsosecondary characters walk away with the movie.