You've Got Mail Critic Reviews

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Variety | Lael LowensteinAdd Critic to Favorites

The most successful version yet of this familiar premise.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Jay CarrAdd Critic to Favorites

Warm, smart, and funny!Read the full review

The New York Times | Elvis MitchellAdd Critic to Favorites

The film's mix of romance and reading matter is seductive in its own right, providing comfy book-lined settings and people who are what they read and write.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Ty BurrAdd Critic to Favorites

A perfectly enjoyable star vehicle that does exactly what it sets out to do. [7 May 1999, p.66]Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

The appeal of You've Got Mail is as old as love and as new as the Web.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Ruthe SteinAdd Critic to Favorites

Boasts a collection of oddball characters, some more sharply written than others.Read the full review

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

A feel-good movie that offers enough comedy and romance to warm the heart without risking a sentimental overdose.Read the full review

Slate | David EdelsteinAdd Critic to Favorites

The movie, without seeming to realize it, turns into a romantic parable about the joys of being absorbed by a conglomerate.Read the full review

Washington Post | Michael O'SullivanAdd Critic to Favorites

Made me feel like a Christmas goose being fattened for slaughter. Its force-fed diet of whimsy cloyed long before the eagerly anticipated romantic payoff arrived to put me out of my misery.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Nathan RabinAdd Critic to Favorites

Takes almost two self-infatuated, smarmy, condescending, cringe-inducingly sentimental hours to reach its pre-ordained conclusion.Read the full review

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