
Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Mosley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out with their friend, talking about love and sex. Then Nina tests the strength of Darius' feelings and sets a chain of romantic complications into motion.... (Full plot summary below)
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Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Mosley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it," they hang out with their friend, talking about love and sex. Then Nina tests the strength of Darius' feelings and sets a chain of romantic complications into motion.
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| The New York TimesElvis MitchellShakespeare meets Sherlock, and makes for pure enchantment in the inspired conjecture behind Shakespeare in Love. |
| Film.comGemma FilesAnyone not romantically inclined going into Shakespeare in Love surely will be by the end. |
| Film.comNorman GreenIf she (Paltrow) were the only good thing about Shakespeare in Love, it still would have been worth seeing; that she is the crown jewel in a glittering tiara of a film studded with writing and acting gems testifies to the deep pleasures to be found in this remarkable movie. |
| Washington PostMichael O'SullivanPaltrow and Fiennes are so good and the script, referencing not only "Romeo and Juliet" but "Twelfth Night," is so consistently intelligent that seduction is inevitable. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranOne of those entertaining confections that's so pleasing to the eye and ear you'd have to be a genuine Scrooge to struggle against it. |
| TimeRichard CorlissThe true, rare glamour of the piece is its revival of two precious movie tropes: the flourishing of words for their majesty and fun, and--in the love play between Fiennes and his enchantress--the kindling of a playfully adult eroticism. |
| The New RepublicStanley KauffmannThe richest and most satisfying romantic movie of the year. It's really about two great loves at once -- the love of life and of art -- and the way that Shakespeare, like no writer before him, transformed the one into the other. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertMany love stories contrive to get their characters together at the end. This one contrives, not to keep them apart, but to bring them to a bittersweet awareness that is above simple love. Some audience members would probably prefer a romantic embrace in the sunset, as the music swells. But "Love Jones'' is too smart for that. |
| Portland OregonianBarry JohnsonLike "Amadeus," Shakespeare in Love works splendidly as an appreciation of an artist in the heat of creation, and it breathes life into "Romeo and Juliet." |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip Martinlove jones strives to be smart and sophisticated, which isn't exactly the same thing as intelligent ... |