Shakespeare in Love Critic Reviews

I was carried along by the wit, the energy and a surprising sweetness.Read the full review

Anyone not romantically inclined going into Shakespeare in Love surely will be by the end.Read the full review

One of those entertaining confections that's so pleasing to the eye and ear you'd have to be a genuine Scrooge to struggle against it.Read the full review

Shakespeare meets Sherlock, and makes for pure enchantment in the inspired conjecture behind Shakespeare in Love.Read the full review

The richest and most satisfying romantic movie of the year. It's really about two great loves at once -- the love of life and of art -- and the way that Shakespeare, like no writer before him, transformed the one into the other.Read the full review

Paltrow and Fiennes are so good and the script, referencing not only "Romeo and Juliet" but "Twelfth Night," is so consistently intelligent that seduction is inevitable.Read the full review

The movie becomes something quite rare and magical: a text about a text that is also full of life. In other words, it's a true first: It's both postmodern and fun!Read the full review

Exquisitely acted, tightly directed and impressively assembled.Read the full review

Accessibly brainy screen charmer.Read the full review