Columbus has made a film with enough imaginative power and sheer entertainment value to outstrip and outlast all the cynicism that travels before it. Disgusting Coca-Cola sponsorship? Pah. Horrid merchandising exploitation of poor mothers? Ignore it. If the film was even a partial letdown I would trounce it - but no, Harry is a triumph, and it has the germ of true movie magic at its core, a germ of unadulterated innocence.
Daily Telegraph, 16.11.2001
