This charming and well-scripted comedy exploits the ingenious set-up with delightful results.
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11/27/07
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:19
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.3/10
Synopsis: Lubitsch's charming and gentle romance, set in Budapest. Klara Novak and Alfred Kralik have fallen in love -- but if they were to pass each other on the street, they wouldn't know: they've met... [More]
Starring: James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Frank Morgan, Sara Haden
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Reviews for The Shop Around the Corner
1 - 19 (sorted by fresh rating; Australian critics are listed first)
As the plot has as many complications as characters, much of the fun comes in watching Scripter Samson Raphaelson neatly tangle and untangle them without tying himself in a hard knot.
12/05/08
Delectable Hungarian pastry, served up by masters all around. This may be the best romantic comedy ever made.
01/01/00
No review available.
01/23/04
Funny and timeless. Jimmy Stewart is fantastic.
01/01/00
No review available.
03/25/04
This 1940 film is one of Ernst Lubitsch's finest and most enduring works, a romantic comedy of dazzling range.
11/27/07
The Shop Around the Corner is a blueprint for great romantic comedy, perfectly balancing its sentiment with cleverness and humour, and giving us a set of delightful characters in a plot that is as unpredictable as it is original.
02/01/03
...a pretty kettle of bubbling brew it makes under Mr. Lubitsch's deft and tender management and with a genial company to play it gently, well this side of farce and well that side of utter seriousness.
05/20/03
Top CriticThoroughly different from To Be or Not To Be but just as exhilarating, it's one of the few films truly justifying Lubitsch's reputation for a 'touch.'
02/09/06
This might be Lubitsch's gentlest work: sweetness mixed with a genuine sadness.
05/26/06
No review available.
09/19/02
Not Lubitsch at the top of his form, but good.
12/29/02
This smart and stylish Lubitsch comedy was recently remade as You've Got Mail.
03/10/03
Not much better than the 'You've got Mail' remake
09/26/02
Esta charmosa comédia romântica traz um James Stewart mais irônico do que costume, mas igualmente nobre - e sua interação com Margaret Sullavan cria ótimos momentos de ácido romantismo.
02/23/03
Who but Lubitsch could have pulled off such a winning romantic comedy that dares to include, but is not marred by, such tragic undercurrents… adultery, attempted suicide?
10/13/04
Although picture carries the indelible stamp of Ernst Lubitsch at his best in generating humor and human interest from what might appear to be unimportant situations, it carries further to impress via the outstanding characterizations by Margaret Sullavan
11/27/07
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