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- 63ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliWhat's sad is that Elizabethtown contains two GREAT sequences.
- 60The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsOnly a truly great director can make a film of high artistic merit, filled with personality and memorable scenes, that's still a borderline disaster. (Think One From The Heart or 1941.) So the heartfelt and woefully miscalculated Elizabethtown may be the film that marks Cameron Crowe's arrival as a truly great director.
- 60L.A. WeeklyJohn PattersonL.A. WeeklyJohn PattersonCrowe's undeniable gifts -- his well-crafted individual scenes and his love for his characters -- are more evident here than his flaws.
- 58Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThink of Elizabethtown as Cameron Crowe's rambling amateur travelogue, one from a well-liked professional filmmaker momentarily so distracted by private notes scrawled on his souvenir map that he gets lost en route to telling his story of self-renewal. This undershaped, overlong warmedy is an homage to the memory of his late father.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterRay BennettThe Hollywood ReporterRay BennettTedious humor and sentimentality bury what could have been a pretty good road picture.
- 50Village VoiceLaura SinagraVillage VoiceLaura SinagraWhere the earlier flick (Garden State), in its smallness, felt like an honest representation of writer-director-star Zach Braff's struggles with notions of home, Crowe's is a hodgepodge of great ideas and moods in search of a plot to enrich.
- 50Dallas ObserverRobert WilonskyDallas ObserverRobert WilonskyIt's a mess, absolutely, more a collage than a narrative.
- 38New York Daily NewsJack MathewsNew York Daily NewsJack MathewsCrowe was going for something magical in all this, but the film is so affected and mannered, so preciously in love with itself, that it's painful to watch. Scenes go on and on, and when you think the movie's over, it goes on and on some more.
- 25Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneSo many romantic comedies come and go without making the slightest impression. Elizabethtown is not one of them; I found it galling.