Love Actually
- 2003 film
Romantic comedy by Richard Curtis, charting a multitude of relationships across a Christmas period. Also features Alan Rickman, Olivia Olson, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson and more.
Streaming rank this week: 644
Press clippings
Major clue Love Actually sequel could finally be in the works
In pulse-quickening signs Love Actually could be getting a sequel 20 years on, Universal Pictures has filed paperwork protecting the name.
Bosses at the film firm, which made the original in 2003, lodged a trademark application days ago which specifically covered a new film and TV series.
Felicity Cross, The Sun, 10th January 2024Love Actually at 20: Are we still in love with the controversial Christmas classic?
As washed-up rock star Billy Mack, played by Bill Nighy, finally nails the lyrics to the festive version of Love Is All Around (aptly renamed Christmas Is All Around), he realises how awful the song is. His manager, grinning, agrees that it is rubbish - "solid gold" rubbish. And so the scene is set for Love Actually: a two-hour whirlwind of improbable, questionable and downright daft scenes of love, propped up by a star-studded cast.
Yasmin Rufo, BBC, 18th December 2023Love Actually: 20 Years Later
As an avid lover of Love Actually, I can appreciate the faults of the film and let's be honest, there are many.
Tess Bowen, Brig Newspaper, 15th December 2023I starred in Love Actually - 20 years on I'm gigging in pubs but I still get royalties
Love Actually is arguably the UK's favourite festive movie. 20 years on from its release Junior Simpson, the actor who played the 'world's worst DJ', spills all.
Mel Fallowfield, The Sun, 9th December 2023Love Actually: Is it a Christmas classic or an unwatchable schmaltz-fest?
Richard Curtis's festive film is flawed and charming, a somewhat ahistorical time capsule of a Blairite Britain that maybe never actually existed.
Lucy Fitzgerald, The Big Issue, 25th November 2023In defence of Love Actually, 20 years on
Richard Curtis's classic Christmas romcom has been criticised as problematic and trashy. But it remains a staple of the British DVD cupboard because it makes us laugh - and feel something.
Emily Bootle, i Newspaper, 21st November 2023Love Actually: one thing we really should cancel
Richard Curtis's nadir is turning 20. How has it become a festive classic?
Hadley Freeman, The Sunday Times, 12th November 2023Love Actually at 20: Richard Curtis's imperfect yet irresistible Christmas romcom
Far from unimpeachable, with problems ranging from a lack of diversity to an overdose of saccharine, the festive ensemble comedy is an annual staple nonetheless.
Francesca Carington, The Guardian, 6th November 2023Richard Curtis and the love rival MP behind his films' bumbling Bernards
Richard Curtis has admitted that he names irritating characters in his films Bernard after the Tory MP who stole his university girlfriend.
The Telegraph, 24th June 2023Joanna Page on Love Actually
"It's a flipping film - sometimes we take things too seriously."
Francesca Steele, i Newspaper, 23rd December 2022