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starstarstarstar Jack Mathews - Newsday
starstarstarstar Norman Green - Film.com
starstarstarstar Michael O’Sullivan - Washington Post
starstarstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstarstar Lael Loewenstein - Variety
starstarstarstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times
starstarstarstar Jeff Vice - Deseret News
starstarstarstar Jeff Millar - Houston Chronicle
starstarstarstar Janet Maslin - NY Times
starstarstarstar Walter Addiego - SF Examiner
starstarstarstar Mike Clark - USA Today
starstarstarstar Mark Burger - Winston-Salem Journal
starstarstarstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee

One of the strangest, funniest, most enchanting, most romantic and – fittingly – best-written tales ever spun from the vast legend of William Shakespeare

- Jack Mathews

Marred ever so slightly by its indulgent length (it’s too long by at least a half-hour) and by a certain smug, self-satisfied air

- Joe Baltake

Shakespeare in Love

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After he falls in love with the play’s soon-to-be-married lead actress (Gwyneth Paltrow), a young Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) finds inspiration to write "Romeo & Juliet." Geoffrey Rush, Ben Affleck, Rupert Everett, Judi Dench, Simon Callow, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson. Director: John Madden (1998, R)

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