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Each of these movies are reviewed from a gay perspective, giving them
both an overall star rating plus our exclusive gay rating. The more stars out of a possible 10, the
better the film; similarly the more pink triangles, the greater the gay interest. A full list of
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Love Actually Movie Rating:  Romantics Will Love It | |
| A mystery writer (Colin Firth) falling in love with his housekeeper (Lucia Moniz), a middle-aged businessman (Alan Rickman) contemplating an affair, and a smitten 11-year-old (Thomas Sangster) turning to his newly widowed stepfather (Liam Neeson) for romantic advice are among the multitude of characters in this sprawling Yuletide romance. | |
| The multiple storylines veer wildly between comedy and skin-crawling sentimentality, and never rise above the level of soap opera but you can't help but be drawn in. Bill Nighy as a bawdy, ageing pop star on the comeback trail and Hugh Grant as England's lovelorn prime minister who has a romance with tea-lady Martine McCutcheon are hilarious; but, for the most part, a sublime cast is stranded in a series of predictable, one-note roles. |
 Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon. |
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