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Cinema’s great declarations of love

In honor of Valentine's Day, we bring you transcendent moments of passion, from "Moonstruck" to "Anchorman"

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A married housewife gazes adoringly at a doctor in a tea shop and tells him he looks younger somehow. A baker in a tuxedo woos a widow on wintry Brooklyn street. Two TV newspeople scream about their love while riding animated unicorns.

These are a few of our picks for cinema’s greatest declarations of love. Please share your own favorites in the Letters section.

But first, we’re gonna turn the lights down real low … for the loooooovers.

By Matt Zoller Seitz


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