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Elizabethtown Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 75

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  Nowhere near one of Crowe's great films (like "Almost Famous"), but it is sweet and good-hearted and has some real laughs.

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• 58

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa 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.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano

  A mess of a movie -- but a warm, friendly mess that's hard not to like, even when it tests your patience.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Variety

  Although rich in screwball silliness and sharp one-liners, film lacks the narrative drive one finds in the classic comedies of Preston Sturges, Frank Capra and Billy Wilder, whom Crowe always seems to try to emulate.

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• 50

  out of 100

  The New York TimesDana 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.

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• 50

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  Though it's no fiasco -- there's nothing mythic about its disjointed story -- it is a failure.

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• 50

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterRay Bennett

  Tedious humor and sentimentality bury what could have been a pretty good road picture.

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