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Genre :

Drama, Comedy, Romance

Release Date :

October 14, 2005

MPAA Rating :

PG-13

Director :

Cameron Crowe

Starring :

Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin, Bruce McGill, Judy Greer, Jessica Biel, Jed Rees, Allison Munn, Gailard Sartain

REVIEWS RATE:  Critics  Nothing's perfect, but it's worth seeing.    Readers  2 of 5 [Rate It]

“..worth seeing...”
by Ray Bennett [The Hollywood Reporter]
6.5 of 10

“..with some trimming, it just might be great...”
by Liam Cullin [Empire Movies]
3 of 5

“..the sum of the parts are far greater than the whole..”
by Eric Lurio [Greenwich Village Gazette]
2 of 4

“..not nearly as charming, funny or endearing as it thinks it is...”
by James Verniere [Boston Herald]
2.5 of 5

“..lacks focus, jumping from scene to scene with no apparent rhyme or reason, making it longer than necessary...”
by Heather Wood [Sun Newspapers of Cleveland]
2 of 5

“..hits one clunky false note after another...”
by Jim Lane [Sacramento News & Review]
1.5 of 4

“..Full of flaws and ambiguity, it's a mess..”
by Brian Marder [Hollywood]
2.5 of 4

“..feels disjointed and poorly focused..”
by James Berardinelli [ReelViews]
1 of 5

“..doesn't make a whole lot of sense..”
by Shlomo Schwartzberg [Boxoffice Magazine]
2 of 4

“..Crowe uncharacteristically loses the focus of his film, and loses control...”
by Daniel Neman [Richmond Times-Dispatch]
2.5 of 4

“..Crowe fails to make the central romance persuasive..”
by Ed Blank [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]
2.5 of 5

“..an ungainly oddity that doesn't wear well...”
by Robert Denerstein [Denver Rocky Mountain News]
5 of 5

“..an irresistibly comfy experience..”
by Brian Orndorf [EFilmCritic]
2 of 4

“..an interesting failure that will probably be forgotten quickly..”
by Jeff Vice [Deseret News, Salt Lake City]
9 of 10

“..a wonderfully human and entertaining piece of drama...”
by Joshua Starnes [Comingsoon]
3 of 4

“..a sweet, funny, sprawling movie..”
by Michael Wilmington [Chicago Tribune]
2 of 5

“..a fiasco, a disappointment, a film with so little to love...”
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]

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i hate orlando bloom.

posted by rdog on Oct 16, 2009
 
 

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