Avis Metacritic

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.

A valentine to the happenstance miracle of lovers and other strangers, a movie that regards modern romance as something that is, ultimately, old-fashioned to its core.

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

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

Boasts a collection of oddball characters, some more sharply written than others.

Ultimately achieves that lump in the throat that is the romantic comedy's promised land.

This is filmmaking as a minor feat of engineering, the kind where even the gossamer emotions seem like prefab components -- charm, whimsy, serendipity, all so many discs plugged into the hard drive.

Too many questions are raised with no good answers.

It's as if the whole movie's on Prozac, only in this case the antidepressants are cuteness and romance.

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