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100
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
But Turteltaub surprises us. He has the kind of unerring comic touch - easily able to carry his audience from smart dialogue to heart-tugging emotion to something awfully close to slapstick - that should serve the movie world well.
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90
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The New York Times Elvis Mitchell
This is a formula film, but it has the kind of good cheer and fine tuning that occasionally give slickness a good name.
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75
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
It's a feel-good film, warm and good-hearted, and as it was heading for its happy ending, I was still a little astonished how much I was enjoying it.
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75
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San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack
It's a feel-good deal you can take the whole family to, or even better, a date. And this almost cuddly film, built on a farfetched case of mistaken identity, delivers plenty of fun.
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75
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TV Guide
While You Were Sleeping is a mild romantic comedy rooted in class anxiety, but it's nice to see perennial loser-in-love Pullman ("Sleepless in Seattle", "The Last Seduction") get some. Respect, that is.
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67
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Only when you look closer do you realize that While You Were Sleeping exhibits precious few genuine feelings. It's a movie cranked out by machine, about supposedly delightfully idiosyncratic characters who only do what they do because the highly structured plot requires it.
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60
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Los Angeles Times Peter Rainer
It's a movie about the warm feeling you get when you belong to a family, and, throughout, the thermostat is turned up high.
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50
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USA Today Susan Wloszczyna
A romantic comedy has to woo an audience into taking a chance on love. While You Were Sleeping is that kind of sneaky charmer, more riveting than ribbit-ing. [21 Apr 1995, Pg.01.D]
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50
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Washington Post Hal Hinson
Its attitude seems to be: You met her and liked her in "Speed," now get to know her better. But while it's easy to like her, liking the movie is another matter.
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40
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Washington Post
A wobbly romantic comedy, Sleeping plays its romantic elements just right, but badly botches the comedy.
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