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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyNot since "Love Story" has there been a movie that so shrewdly and predictably manipulated the emotions for such entertaining effect.
- 100Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversEphron homes in on what's been missing in movies and in life: ardor, longing and smart talk about the screwed-up notions that pass for love.
- 90Washington PostHal HinsonWashington PostHal HinsonIn Sleepless, though, we're as stuck on these people as the director is, and it puts us in a receptive, forgiving mood. We fall -- and I think a lot of people will fall hard for this movie -- even though we know we shouldn't.
- 90Washington PostWashington PostThere are no surprises in Sleepless, and the audience is ahead of the characters every step of the way. But people seem to like it that way. And, hey, it works like a charm.
- 80Los Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonLos Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonWe don't make those kind of Lubitsch-Wilder-Capra movies anymore, because it's hard to kid about what goes on behind bedroom walls when the bedroom doors have long since been flung open. So Ephron invents strategies to keep us, teased, outside the boudoir. [25 Jun 1993 Pg.F1]
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliThis is a dreamy, romantic fantasy whose mood falls somewhere between magic and reality.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertEphron develops this story with all of the heartfelt sincerity of a 1950s tearjerker (indeed, the movie's characters spend a lot of time watching "An Affair to Remember" and using it as their romantic compass).
- 60Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumNora Ephron, who wrote and directed this, repeatedly alludes to the 1957 "An Affair to Remember" as her principal point of reference, yet at no point does she indicate any awareness of what makes that tragicomic love story sublime and this one merely cutesy.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe movie is so prefab, so plastically aware of being ''corny,'' ''romantic,'' and ''old-fashioned,'' that it feels programmed to make you fall in love with it.
- 40Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenWhile celebrating the lushly romantic, it also tweaks the tradition so that Sleepless in Seattle ends up something akin to a feature-length Taster's Choice commercial.