80
Has buckets to spare of that rarest screen commodity — genuine, engaging charm.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
80
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
In the end, the movie works because Grant and Roberts are disarming geniuses at playing themselves -- and then some.
50
The result is two films: a big, dreary star vehicle that sags whenever its leads spend quality time together, and a mettlesome British caper whose nutsosecondary characters walk away with the movie.
100
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
The overall result is a romantic comedy that indulges fantasies, calms insecurities (can an ordinary bloke stack up?), and breaks and mends hearts with surgical precision.
70
It may boil down to little more than a minor variation on Four Weddings' formula, but it's an interesting and entertaining one.
70
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
A smartly cast and consistently amusing romantic comedy.
70
Chicago Reader by Lisa Alspector
At once a light comedy and a reasonably serious meditation on the perils of fame.
70
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Roberts fans will, of course, be delighted to see her in a role that plays to all her strengths -- fresh-faced looks, charming gangliness, air of infinite approachability -- and neatly sidesteps her glaring inability to act by having her more or less play herself.
75
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
The movie is bright, the dialogue has wit and intelligence, and Roberts and Grant are very easy to like. By the end, as much as we're aware of the ancient story machinery groaning away below deck, we're smiling.
75
San Francisco Examiner by Wesley Morris
The deft, hilarious Notting Hill finds Grant's dour-droll-deprecating affliction at its most dead-on.
A classic boy meets girl story, where you can't help but root for a seemingly impossible couple to end up together. Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts' charming performances and undeniable chemistry really put it over the top!