Kate & Leopold Critic Reviews

It's a charmer.Read the full review

Meg Ryan does this sort of thing about as well as it can possibly be done, and after "Sleepless in Seattle" and "You've Got Mail," here is another ingenious plot that teases us with the possibility that true love will fail, while winking that, of course, it will prevail.Read the full review

It's no myth: All play and no work makes Jackman, as Leopold, a doll of a boyfriend.Read the full review

Director and co-writer James Mangold (Girl, Interrupted) is supplying comfort food for bruised romantics.Read the full review

The role of Kate, a spunky but romantically unfulfilled marketing expert, seems made for Ryan. Unfortunately, Ryan no longer seems made for it.Read the full review

Lacking in originality.Read the full review

A flawed time-travel love story, benefits from Meg Ryan's reliable perkiness and establishes Australia's Hugh Jackman as a potent romantic leading man. These and other pluses, however, cannot overcome the film's inability to come alive for a full hour and 20 minutes.Read the full review

Has only the most tangential relation to reality, and therein lies its slender charm.Read the full review

A time-travel romantic comedy whose best elements -- Meg Ryan and Hugh Jackman -- overcome distracting plot holes, loose threads and assorted contrivances to make for a mostly charming and diverting tale.Read the full review