Nowhere near one of Crowe's great films (like "Almost Famous"), but it is sweet and good-hearted and has some real laughs.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
What's sad is that Elizabethtown contains two GREAT sequences.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Think of Elizabethtown as Cameron Crowe's rambling amateur travelogue, one from a well-liked professional filmmaker momentarily so distracted by private notes scrawled on his souvenir map that he gets lost en route to telling his story of self-renewal. This undershaped, overlong warmedy is an homage to the memory of his late father.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Laura Sinagra
Where the earlier flick (Garden State), in its smallness, felt like an honest representation of writer-director-star Zach Braff's struggles with notions of home, Crowe's is a hodgepodge of great ideas and moods in search of a plot to enrich.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Dana Stevens
Elizabethtown is a long, lurching trip to nowhere in particular, but Elizabethtown is a place where you wouldn't mind spending some more time, though perhaps under different circumstances.Read Full Review »
Audiences of a certain hipster disposition, in fact, will see Elizabethtown and pine for Zach Braff's ''Garden State," the movie to which Elizabethtown bears an unfortunate and inferior resemblance.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
The film's problems lie with the lack of spark between a wired Dunst and a bland Bloom, and the meltdown of Drew's mother (Susan Sarandon), who grieves by tap-dancing.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
Though it's no fiasco -- there's nothing mythic about its disjointed story -- it is a failure.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Carina Chocano
A mess of a movie -- but a warm, friendly mess that's hard not to like, even when it tests your patience.Read Full Review »
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