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Reviews Counted:47
Fresh:43
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.8/10
Consensus: Rob Reiner's touching, funny film set a new standard for romantic comedies, and he was ably abetted by the sharp interplay between Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan.
Although probably best known for its show-stopping deli scene where Sally demonstrates how a woman can convincingly fake orgasm, When Harry Met Sally has many other memorable moments that are funny and observant of the peculiarities of the sexes.
What keeps the momentum going, despite the story's predictability, is the dialogue and the chemistry, which makes for a high-wire act.
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The writing and direction plays with the [romantic comedy] form and your expectations alike throughout, and with such good performances the film makes for a deliciously prickly ride with laugh-out-loud moments and scenes that resonate through the story.
Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan are terrific together in one of the best romantic comedies of the 1980s.
Sally is special lightning-in-a-bottle stuff that every member of the production has spent precious years of their lives trying to recreate, but always failing miserably.
This is Ephron at her best.
Fans of Billy Crystal's amphibian qualities may be amused, but the rest of us have to contend with a slavish Woody Allen imitation.
Top CriticWhat makes it special, apart from the Ephron screenplay, is the chemistry between Crystal and Ryan.
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When Harry Met Sally . . . is an adult romantic comedy in a time when we don't get very many, and it has one thing going for it that gives it an enormous boost -- it's very funny.
Reiner's film breaks the romantic-comedy mold because it's not so much about Harry and Sally as it is about men and women.
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A sweet, cheerfully vulgar, and often very funny old-fashioned romantic comedy.
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We have to give When Harry Met Sally... credit for what it did: Make one of the few romance films that bears any kind of truth without also being a dark comedy.
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The script is an excellent breakdown of timeless conversations between the sexes...witty repartee between the two leads, and a beautifully constructed love story that is carefully assembled over time, and gently eases you into the wonder of...love.
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