Love Actually - Movie Reviews (2024)

Set to the backdrop of Christmas, Love Actually finds believability in the unbelievable, crafting an environment where anything can happen and the greatest risks should be taken.

Full Review | Jan 12, 2024

The film is all but stolen... by Bill Nighy as a washed up rock star goofing his way through his holiday TV and radio appearances as his seasonal song climbs the charts.

Full Review | Jan 6, 2024

... Curtis and company remind us that love, actually, is everywhere no matter the time of year, period, or place. That’s what helps make it a staple watch this and any other time of year.

Full Review | Dec 14, 2023

A cringe 10 for the price of one bulk holiday sale of the most well-worn rom-com tropes.

Full Review | Dec 11, 2023

The film simply has an attractive charm about it that pulls you in and keeps you interested.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 21, 2023

Richard Curtis’ Love Actually claims the prize of being the “ultimate romantic comedy” not through daring or originality, but by covering every cliché imaginable offered by the genre, and doing so with style.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 28, 2023

...while Curtis clearly connects more with some stories than others, the best bits are genuinely classics...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 27, 2021

The work is lopsided and misshapen, not like life, but a poor, contrived, somewhat disoriented impression of life.

Full Review | Feb 15, 2021

A load of sickeningly twee nonsense inflated, bizarrely, into some kind of totemic Christmas film that only humbugs suggest might not just be rubbish.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 31, 2021

It's almost a shock to see such a well constructed and beautifully acted scene (Emma Thompson opening her present) amid the rest of this film's more mainstream machinations.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 27, 2021

A collection of touching sketches that are frequently sentimental yet thoroughly grand.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 6, 2020

It's a tremendous romantic comedy that far outshines most American comedies.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 14, 2020

Curtis pulls off a spectacular feat of screenwriting, expertly defining 16 principal characters and their relationships, providing each one with a beginning, middle, and end, and making us care about what happens to all of them.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2020

There's so much right and yummy about this multi-tiered plum cake of a romantic comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 27, 2020

The film exhibits a real soft spot for sexual predators, while also promoting the notion that Christmas is the perfect time to publicly dump your love on the near-stranger you're tenderly stalking.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 10, 2019

Now, though, Curtis, England's most successful comic screenwriter, has shown that when it comes to Hollywood pap, the English can teach Hollywood a treacly trick or two.

Full Review | Nov 5, 2019

This plum pudding of a romantic comedy is rich with delicious moments.

Full Review | Nov 5, 2019

Love Actually isn't in love with anyone except itself: it's like watching a practised lounge lizard go through his repertoire.

Full Review | Nov 5, 2019

Forget about stiff upper lips. Though very British, this irresistible ensemble comedy will easily coax full-sized grins of enjoyment from viewers.

Full Review | Nov 5, 2019

If you feel yourself glowing after Love Actually, you might be suffering from sugar shock.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 5, 2019