A Yuletide chick flick with plenty of heart.
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
What have we here? A holiday movie that doesn't make everyone grumpy? A romantic comedy with real sense of how romance feels, both good and bad, when caught in its throes? Such stars as Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Jack Black, who are funny, sexy, unabashedly wear emotions in plain view and can winningly play those quirky-ridiculous neuroses that light up movie screens? Pass the eggnog...

So eat up, chick-flickaholics! Even if you know it's not good for you.
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
It may not be proof that miracles do happen, but with Something's Gotta Give (2003), the writer-director Nancy Meyers took a leap from the processed screwball of movies like her 2000 hit What Women Want to something zesty and stirring and wittily adult. It's as if Rachael Ray had blossomed into Alice Waters. Now Meyers is back with The Holiday, and I'm sad to report that it's just a cookie-cutter chick flick, albeit one made with some fancy butter and powdered frosting...

Cameron Diaz seduces Jude Law in Nancy Meyer’s “The Holiday.”
By JUSTIN CHANG
Variety
By now, Nancy Meyers knows exactly what women want --gorgeous locales, even more gorgeous actors, a sentimental love story calculated to make viewers hug themselves and maybe even each other -- and she doubles the formula to generally pleasing but thoroughly unsurprising effect in "The Holiday," a lavishly overstuffed gift basket of a movie...

Provides the kind of escapist entertainment that's been so lacking thus far into the winter season.
Stephen Saito
Premiere Magazine
Nancy Meyers makes the kinds of films that people complain no one makes anymore. The Holiday is the type of welcome diversion that only Meyers still seems to specialize — a romantic comedy where Barbara Stanwyck and Rosalind Russell would have been just as natural as Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet and where the one liners fly like confetti...