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Critical Consensus

Dueling Critics
starstarstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstarstar Norman Green - Film.com
starstarstarstar Philip Wuntch - Dallas Morning News
starstarstarstar Mark Caro - Chicago Tribune
starstarstarstar Lisa Schwarzbaum - EW
starstarstarstar Susan Wloszczyna - USA Today
starstarstarstar Desson Howe - Washington Post
starstarstarstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times
starstarstar Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
starstarstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Derek Elley - Variety
starstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal

“A romantic comedy that makes falling in love with a movie easy as pie; or, as the English would say, easy-peasy”

- Susan Stark

“With so many film montage sequences set to pop tunes, Notting Hill often plays like a soundtrack in search of a movie”

- Mark Burger

Notting Hill
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A famous movie star (Julia Roberts) and an ordinary bookshop owner (Hugh Grant) fall in love despite their differences. Hugh Bonneville, Emma Chambers, James Dreyfus, Rhys Ifans, Tim McInnerny, Gina McKee, Richard McCabe, Dylan Moran, Roger Frost, Julian Rhind-Tutt. Director: Roger Michell (1999, PG-13)
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