Half the time while watching Aloha, I had no clue what was going on. Not so much the plot -- although I was admittedly a bit muddled on that, too -- but why anyone acted the way they did.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 10, 2016

It seems less that Crowe's gifts have escaped him than that they've become disproportionate with his excesses, and we're less forgiving of those trespasses.

| May 28, 2016

The whole story is a tangled mess. Aloha sees itself as a quirky, funny, and sad, but loudly announces when it's trying to be those things.

| Jan 21, 2016

Like the characters, we're left waiting for something mythical or spectacular to happen. Unfortunately for Crowe, we'll probably find it in another movie this summer.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Dec 17, 2015

Even if this were well made in a technical sense, it would still be a weird heap of patriotism, astronomy, and Hawaiian folklore, piled atop a pat and predictable love story.

| Jun 4, 2015

The basic narrative problem here is that there's more backstory than story. Cooper's supposedly deeply flawed wheeler-dealer comes off more like a bland frat boy with a Coppertone tan.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 4, 2015

It's not bad so much as alien, like a romantic comedy made by someone who's researched human behavior but had very few brushes with it in person.

| Jun 2, 2015

In Aloha, Crowe's fabled generosity toward his characters and actors becomes special pleading.

| Jun 1, 2015

Sometimes quirky and original just plays like odd and incoherent.

| Original Score: C- | May 30, 2015

Inspiration has become Cameron Crowe's crack. His films are all-you-can-eat pixie-dust buffet from which all unnecessary excitement has been expunged.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 29, 2015

Filmmaker Cameron Crowe can't catch a break with Aloha, a Hawaii-set romcom that is a handful of stories struggling for a unifying tone, but is nowhere near as toxic as its advance buzz.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 29, 2015

It comes at us in choppy bursts of brilliance and dopiness. That is at once its great charm and its great curse.

| May 29, 2015

Aloha is a great-looking movie with just enough bright spots to get us past the cloudy moments.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 29, 2015

None of this "works." But it usually worked on me.

| May 29, 2015

Crowe is deft at keeping the various plots spinning, but there are too many of them, and they don't intersect pleasingly.

| Original Score: C+ | May 29, 2015

This is a romantic comedy that has more than hearts on its mind. In addition to teasing the uneasy and complicated partnership of the military and the private sector, Crowe takes on issues integral to Hawaii.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 29, 2015

Cameron Crowe writes movies like he's calling us in eighth grade with his heart on fire.

| May 29, 2015

"Aloha" feels like several films at once, crammed together and sped up, with results that are emotionally hollow and narratively confusing.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 29, 2015

For all the screwball patter, smart-aleck similes, and zingy one-liners that Crowe has handed his mismatched cast, a kerplunking emptiness runs through Aloha.

| May 29, 2015

Where to begin with Aloha? Begin by not going to the movie.

| Original Score: D | May 28, 2015