Eat Pray Love Reviews
There’s some love along the way, and a little bit of praying, but it’s the “Eat” in the title that gets the most attention, like a neon sign in the window of an all-night diner.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 16, 2023
Unlike the original source, Eat Pray Love presents a flawless caricature that's on an idyllic, hiccup-free trip in a world full of kind people who are happy to be at the mercy of this lost American tourist. [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 21, 2022
A never ending yawn. [Full review in Spanish]
| Jul 19, 2022
Not a good film by any means, but sometimes you need a bad film of exactly this ilk: frothy, silly and as pleasurable as wrapping yourself in a warm blanket.
| Nov 5, 2021
Without discounting the importance of Gilbert's decision... it can't be removed from its context: it's a story about choosing self over prescribed generic femininity, a world of your own making over the deeply patriarchal American upper-middle class.
| Jun 9, 2021
Eat Pray Love is more of a romanticized travelogue, rather than a truly transformative one.
| May 23, 2021
In many ways I don't even consider Eat Pray Love a film. I see it as more akin to a very well made travel brochure.
| May 19, 2021
This translation to the big screen is dull, boring, and largely unaffecting.
| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 29, 2020
Wraps it all up infinitely tighter and neater than does Gilbert's book.
| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020
Eat Pray Love is more of a romanticized travelogue, rather than a truly transformative one.
| Mar 2, 2019
... almost two and a half hours in which [Julia Roberts] displays her charisma... [Full review in Spanish]
| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 19, 2018
With 6 million readers of Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir, clearly, the movie has big shoes to fill. It may not succeed, but Julia Roberts and the film's designers give us a lot to enjoy.
| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Dec 3, 2017
An engaging but deliberate chick flick at times, Eat, Pray, Love has the quintessential chick flick star at the helm with Roberts, who played the role beautifully...
| Original Score: A- | Sep 9, 2017
The unexamined privilege, the idealization/exotification of all places east, the canned spirituality, the sensual goddamn spaghetti-it's all so focus-group-tested and Oprah approved and self-perpetuating and embarrassing.
| Aug 30, 2017
Let's face it. There are some books that should never be made into movies.
| Aug 11, 2017
This gentle, meditative, well-told tale has a lot to offer.
| Mar 7, 2017
Eat Pray Love is overlong and quickly becomes tedious. It features narcissistic, inward looking characters of no interest at all and amounts to a very poorly made film.
| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 9, 2013
| Original Score: B- | Feb 18, 2012
Liz maybe the most unlikeable character Julia Roberts has ever had to play, not because co-writer/director Ryan Murphy is trying to make her so but because everything the film does pushes her in that direction.
| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 21, 2011
A seemingly interminable romantic travelogue that feels as though it takes as long to watch as the year-long spiritual quest it depicts.
| Mar 14, 2011