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

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

| Original Score: B- | Feb 18, 2012

A tiresome, humourless, lifeless, overlong dirge in which the lofty pretention to say something deep about the quest for self and the female condition all gets blown away by an insipid, off-the-shelf romantic-movie ending.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 7, 2010

The director, Ryan Murphy, brings only the most obvious sentiments to the borderline intolerable proceedings.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 6, 2010

Basically a picaresque rom-com about a girl who needs to feel OK about having everything she could ever want.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 5, 2010

It's in equal measure patronising, sententious and obnoxious.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 29, 2010

On and on it goes, 140 minutes of tranquillising non-drama. Is there anything to wonder at in its journey to the centre of an ego?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 24, 2010

In the end, the film is far less affecting or thought-provoking than the book.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 23, 2010

Sit, watch, groan. Yawn, fidget, stretch. Eat Snickers, pray for end of dire film about Julia Roberts's emotional growth, love the fact it can't last for ever. Wince, daydream, frown.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 23, 2010

A beautiful, languid travelogue, although with some of the source novel's empowerment diluted.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 22, 2010

The movie is aware of its own riches; it fills up your plate and dares you not to eat.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2010

Roberts' gorgeousness is served up sacrificially to 140 minutes of psychobabbling "insights", many of them trite or questionable, all of them wearisome.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 22, 2010

We're not so much involved in the movie as idly registering it -- eavesdropping, almost, on a conversation at an adjoining table.

| Aug 23, 2010

What's inevitably lost is any real attempt to track Liz's internal shifts, the way her travels jostle her preconceived notions of selfhood and spirituality.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 18, 2010

Try not to hoot when the gaunt Roberts makes a bring-on-the-flab speech to persuade the equally slender Tuva Novotny to eat pizza, even if they get "muffin tops."

| Aug 16, 2010

Eat, pray, love? More like eat, pray, snooze.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 13, 2010

Roberts is precisely the right actress to play this character: She adamantly refuses to be adorable -- she'd rather just unleash that crazy, unladylike cackle.

Full Review | Aug 13, 2010

The movie left me with the feeling of being trapped with a person of privilege who won't stop with the whine whine whine.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 13, 2010

It's the Oprahfication of religion … Liz's time in India is spiritual tourism, as her time in Italy was culinary tourism; it's all a self-help consumerist approach to world cultures.

| Original Score: D | Aug 13, 2010