10 Things I Hate About You 10 Things I Hate About You 10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy-drama film directed by Gil Junger and starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Larisa Oleynik. The screenplay, written by Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith, is a loose modernization of William Shakespeare's late-16th century comedy "The Taming of the Shrew", retold in a late-1990s American high school setting. In the story, new student Cameron (Gordon-Levitt) is smitten with Bianca Stratford (Oleynik) and, in order to get around her father's strict rules on dating, attempts to get bad boy Patrick (Ledger) to
Hate That I Love You catchy and smooth composition. Critics compared "Hate That I Love You"'s composition to Beyoncé Knowles' "Irreplaceable" ("B'Day", 2006). Jackie Hayden from "Hot Press" called "Hate that I Love You" "the prettier twin of 'Irreplaceable'". Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine criticized the song, and called it a lazy carbon copy of "Irreplaceable" and "So Sick" ("In My Own Words", 2006). Sarah McIntyre of RTÉ.ie concluded that the single "brings mournful acoustic guitar strumming, embarrassing harmonising and trite lyrics to a dreary whole." In a review of "Good Girl Gone Bad", Norman Mayers from Prefix Magazine wrote that the songs which were