Superlatives do not do it justice

Rating: Null/10 (4 June 1999)

An absolute peach of a film. With the characteristic Curtis dialogue in tact from Four Weddings, and the heart strings tugged with even greater skill, Notting Hill is a film from which you walk away feeling warm inside. Enormously funny, beautifully photographed and with a fantastic soundtrack (the Elvis Costello track, 'She' is the stand-out), in many ways it is a film that superlatives do not do justice.
Grant is superb, in top hesitant Englishman form. Julia Roberts emanates both confidence and vulnerability and Emma Chambers also does her customary mad woman. This may well be a film of performances made before, but when they're this good they simply make the film shine.
Finally, the direction oozes confidence. Michell makes one of the most peaceful shots ever commited to celluloid, when he pans upwards from a communal garden on a hot summer night.
Simply marvellous. See it.