CRITICAL CONSENSUS

Michael Wilmington - Chicago Tribune

Ray Bennett - Hollywood Reporter

Jack Mathews - NY Daily News

Alan Morrison - Empire

Mike Clark - USA Today

Connie Ogle - Miami Herald

Megan Lehmann - NY Post

Peter Travers - Rolling Stone

Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times

David Ansen - Newsweek

Liam Lacey - Globe & Mail

Chris Kaltenbach - Baltimore Sun

James Berardinelli - ReelViews

Carrie Rickey - Philadelphia Inquirer

William Arnold - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

DUELING CRITICS

"A rich, shining valentine to the British theater and the eternal joys of Shakespeare, a movie drama about sex roles and backstage romance that left me smiling, imaginatively sated and a little giddy"

- Michael Wilmington

"[Director Richard Eyre] and his team fail to do what John Madden did so well in Shakespeare in Love -- create a pithy historical comedy that burlesques the dramatic and story-telling conventions of a lost era while winking slyly at our own"

- William Arnold