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In a review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', Caryn James called ''When Harry Met Sally...'' an "often funny but amazingly hollow film" that "romanticized lives of intelligent, successful, neurotic New Yorkers"; James characterized it as "the sitcom version of a [[Woody Allen]] film, full of amusing lines and scenes, all infused with an uncomfortable sense of ''déjà vu''".<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/12/movies/review-film-it-s-harry-loves-sally-in-a-romance-of-new-yorkers-and-neuroses.html | title=It's Harry (Loves) Sally in a Romance Of New Yorkers and Neuroses | work=[[The New York Times]] | date=July 12, 1989 | access-date=September 23, 2007 | last=James | first=Caryn | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325182254/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/12/movies/review-film-it-s-harry-loves-sally-in-a-romance-of-new-yorkers-and-neuroses.html | archive-date=March 25, 2009 | url-status=live }}</ref>

Rita Kempley of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' praised Meg Ryan as the "summer's [[Melanie Griffith]] – a honey-haired blonde who finally finds a showcase for her sheer exuberance. Neither naif nor vamp, she's a woman from a pen of a woman, not some [[Cinderella]] of a ''[[Working Girl]]''."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/whenharrymetsallyrkempley_a0c9a5.htm | title=Romance That Dances | newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] | date=July 12, 1989 | access-date=June 15, 2008 | last=Kempley | first=Rita | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105102142/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/whenharrymetsallyrkempley_a0c9a5.htm | archive-date=November 5, 2012 | url-status=live }}</ref> Mike Clark of ''[[USA Today]]'' gave the film three out of four stars, writing, "Crystal is funny enough to keep Ryan from all-out stealing the film. She, though, is smashing in an eye-opening performance, another tribute to Reiner's flair with actors."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/55933280.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jul+12%2C+1989&author=Mike+Clark&pub=USA+TODAY+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=01.D&desc=%60Harry+Met+Sally%27+is+Reiner%27s+next+sure+thing | title=''Harry Met Sally'' is Reiner's next sure thing | work=[[USA Today]] | date=July 12, 1989 | last=Clark | first=Mike}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> [[David Ansen]] provided one of the rare negative reviews of the film for ''[[Newsweek]]''. He criticized the casting of Crystal, "Not surprisingly he handles the comedy superbly, but he's too cool and self-protective an actor to work as a romantic leading man", and felt that as a film, "of wonderful parts, it doesn't quite add up".<ref>{{cite news | title=To Make True Lovers of Friends | work=[[Newsweek]] | date=July 17, 1989 | last=Ansen | first=David}}</ref>

===Accolades===