Elizabethtown Reviews



  • Elizabethtown
    • Genre : Drama, Comedy, Romance
    • Release Date :
    • MPAA Rating : PG-13
    • Duration : 138 minute(s)
    • Production Budget : 57
    • Studio : Paramount Pictures
    • Official Site : http://www.elizabethtown.com/
    • Reviews Rate
      Nothing's perfect, but it's worth seeing.

    • Readers Rate
      2 of 5

Movie Reviews

  • worth seeing.
    by Ray Bennett [The Hollywood Reporter ]
  • with some trimming, it just might be great.
    6.5 of 10 by Liam Cullin [Empire Movies ]
  • the sum of the parts are far greater than the whole
    3 of 5 by Eric Lurio [Greenwich Village Gazette ]
  • not nearly as charming, funny or endearing as it thinks it is.
    2 of 4 by James Verniere [Boston Herald ]
  • lacks focus, jumping from scene to scene with no apparent rhyme or reason, making it longer than necessary.
    2.5 of 5 by Heather Wood [Sun Newspapers of Cleveland ]
  • hits one clunky false note after another.
    2 of 5 by Jim Lane [Sacramento News & Review ]
  • Full of flaws and ambiguity, it's a mess
    1.5 of 4 by Brian Marder [Hollywood ]
  • feels disjointed and poorly focused
    2.5 of 4 by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]
  • doesn't make a whole lot of sense
    1 of 5 by Shlomo Schwartzberg [Boxoffice Magazine ]
  • Crowe uncharacteristically loses the focus of his film, and loses control.
    2 of 4 by Daniel Neman [Richmond Times-Dispatch ]
  • Crowe fails to make the central romance persuasive
    2.5 of 4 by Ed Blank [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ]
  • an ungainly oddity that doesn't wear well.
    2.5 of 5 by Robert Denerstein [Denver Rocky Mountain News ]
  • an irresistibly comfy experience
    5 of 5 by Brian Orndorf [EFilmCritic ]
  • an interesting failure that will probably be forgotten quickly
    2 of 4 by Jeff Vice [Deseret News, Salt Lake City ]
  • a wonderfully human and entertaining piece of drama.
    9 of 10 by Joshua Starnes [Comingsoon ]
  • a sweet, funny, sprawling movie
    3 of 4 by Michael Wilmington [Chicago Tribune ]
  • a fiasco, a disappointment, a film with so little to love.
    2 of 5 by Mark Plante [The Cinema Source ]
  • a complete disaster
    by Pam Grady [Reel ]
  • 3.5 of 5 Reviewed by Lisa Schwarzbaum [Entertainment Weekly ]
  • 3.5 of 5 Reviewed by Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch ]
  • 3.5 of 5 Reviewed by Philip Wuntch [The Dallas Morning News ]
  • 3 of 4 Reviewed by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press ]
  • 3 of 5 Reviewed by [E! Online ]
  • 2.5 of 5 Reviewed by Sean O'Connell [Filmcritic ]
  • 2.5 of 5 Reviewed by Rich Cline [Shadows on the Wall ]
  • 2.5 of 4 Reviewed by Sara M. Fetters [MovieFreak ]
  • 2.5 of 4 Reviewed by Daniel Fienberg [Zap2it ]
  • 2.5 of 4 Reviewed by Barbara Vancheri [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ]
  • 2.5 of 4 Reviewed by Duane Dudek [The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ]
  • 2 of 5 Reviewed by Marc Savlov [Austin Chronicle ]
  • 2 of 4 Reviewed by Wesley Morris [Boston Globe ]
  • 1.5 of 4 Reviewed by Jack Mathews [New York Daily News ]
  • 1.5 of 4 Reviewed by Peter Keough [The Boston Phoenix ]
  • 1.5 of 4 Reviewed by Ed Gonzalez [Slant Magazine ]
  • 1 of 5 Reviewed by Andrea Chase [Killer Movie Reviews ]
  • 1 of 4 Reviewed by Amy Biancolli [Houston Chronicle ]

Reader's Reviews

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