After appearing together in Charlie Wilson’s War, Hanks and Roberts reunite and display plenty of chemistry in this rather plain, unpretentious, but somewhat uninvolving romantic comedy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 11, 2023

This movie may not change your life, but if you give yourself to it you'll leave the theater with a smile on your face.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 13, 2020

This film is the cinematic equivalent of a marshmallow. It's soft and fluffy, but it leaves you unsatisfied and hungering for more after you consume it.

| May 7, 2019

Larry Crowne is agreeable, nimble and oddly reassuring, a big-studio comedy/drama that is funny but refreshingly unemphatic in its jokes and emotional beats.

| Original Score: B | Feb 13, 2019

Tom Hanks directs himself in this, and also wrote the original script, so if you ever thought you can't have too much Hanks here is something else to blow your mind: you so, so can.

| Aug 31, 2018

Although Hanks' hand is quite noticeable in the powerful cast, as in the pleasing plot, the story is too simple to make this film transcend beyond providing a few hours of wholesome fun... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2018

There's no deep message. No complex characters. No moments of high drama, no inspired speeches. But the pictures are pretty, the story is sweet and it's told by a top-notch team of Hollywood pros. It's not great; but it sure is likable.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Dec 3, 2017

Larry Crowne could be subtitled, "My Big Fat Mid-Life Crisis."

| Aug 25, 2017

Tom Hanks's company Playtone appears to be dedicated to making movies where a Beach-Boys-y soundtrack and 1950s Boy Scout values still inform everything. Not necessarily a bad thing -- just cloying.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 22, 2016

But with such timely material and a stellar cast, it comes off mostly as a missed opportunity.

| Oct 7, 2015

Bereft of conflict, the film coasts along in second gear on breezy charm, gentle humanism and star wattage.

Full Review | May 3, 2015

Hanks' dorky routine - right on through to the ridiculous ELO-soundtracked end credits as he and Roberts drives around on a scooter in front of a green screen - is thankfully not as draining as one may assume.

| Sep 15, 2013

A likeable and light-hearted comedy that doesn't attempt to be anything more.

| Original Score: 3.0/5 | Jun 30, 2013

Larry Crowne is nothing we haven't seen before and at times feels over-done and cliched.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 2, 2013

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2012

| Original Score: B | Feb 18, 2012

Could have been a solid, straightforward rom com coasting on likable leads; half-hearted additions trying to link the movie to economic crisis just detract.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 5, 2011

... lacks any sense of gravity. Hanks has too much moxie to let little things like unemployment and an underwater mortgage get him down...

| Nov 16, 2011

Only hints at the comedy and poignancy that its two powerhouse leads could deliver if given better material.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 20, 2011

An exceedingly minor entry on already impressive resums.

| Oct 7, 2011