Shakespeare in Love

(Miramax)

John Madden's Oscar winner is set in London in the '90s -- the 1590s, where hot new playwright William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) is torturing himself over his latest work and falling in love with the unapproachable Lady Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow), who is secretly acting in his theater company disguised as a boy. Lightweight, yes, but this self-reflexive ode to the power of art and love is at times worthy of its namesake.