The overriding feeling is that Crowe simply wanted to impress audiences with cuts from his personal music collection.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 12, 2021

The much-derided tragicomedy/romance sunk several careers, but it hums with its own quirky, never-may-care sense of authenticity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2021

Crowe has a very talented cast at his disposal and, for the most part, uses them wisely.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 19, 2019

Elizabethtown [is] a tone-deaf, miscast and interminable romantic comedy from the usually beguiling Cameron Crowe.

| Mar 14, 2018

... it captures the imperfect, specific nature of the human experience in the face of life's saddest occasions.

| Jan 31, 2018

Much maligned but surprisingly entertaining...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 18, 2014

It's the fashion today for interpersonal dramas to go for bathos and high-stakes emotional conflict as characters cry out their darkest secrets to each other ... but director Cameron Crowe has taken a different tack.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Mar 21, 2011

Heartfelt and intolerable

| Sep 1, 2009

Though Dunst is a saving grace, it's an awfully clunky, self-indulgent little heap of garbage.

| Apr 29, 2009

Orlando Bloom gives a typically abysmal performance as a man-boy who doesn't know if he's old enough to shave yet.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 19, 2009

| Original Score: high 0 out of -4..+4 | Apr 3, 2009

Awash with sentimentality, this meandering tale falls way short of Crowe's usual standards.

| Apr 22, 2008

The hero's nuclear family and kooky rural relatives are so sketchily conceived that none of the intended comedy works, and the balance of the movie is given over to one of Crowe's sugary romances.

| Apr 22, 2008

So curious, and such a disappointment.

Full Review | Apr 22, 2008

A meandering mood piece, with no tension, no chemistry, no character development, no plot and no point.

| Original Score: 0/4 | May 28, 2007

| Original Score: D | May 7, 2007

Crowe's capable of much better than this; let's hope he gets back on track with the next one.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 11, 2007

The performances are solid . . . but it's Kentucky that really steals the show. Crowe paints the eccentricity of the locals with an affectionate brush.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2006

The entire enterprise smacks of wish-fulfilment provoked by middle-age male guilt. Uplifting, it most certainly ain't.

| Jun 24, 2006

Embaraosamente infantil, o filme ainda deixa claro que, alm da falta de carisma, Bloom um ator inexpressivo que no possui o menor timing cmico.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 8, 2006