Mickey Blue Eyes

...this rather adept and well-played nonsense really ought to be the rom-com standard...

The setup is ingenious.

...this is Grant's show. He's perfectly cast as the English auctioneer trying to hold together both a New York sale house and his relationship. As his life spirals out of control, the slapstick humour increases...

The film has fun lampooning gangster-movie cliches (...) and Grant is fine in a tailor-made part...

Acting like a tough guy -- and failing at it miserably -- is exactly the sort of thing Hugh Grant should be doing. It provides him with a hilarious way to deep-six his darling-masochist personality.