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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Crowe's capable of much better than this; let's hope he gets back on track with the next one. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: It dares you to care about any of its people or incidents or sentiments, foisting the characters' little comic quirks on the audience like they're fenced goods. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: 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. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Cameron Crowe is a romantic at heart and there's nothing wrong with that. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: [A] hugely disappointing film, which goes beyond blunder into something akin to meltdown. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: It's a mess, but one that's completely compelling on its own misguided, achingly sincere terms. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: A dreary, self-indulgent, overscripted train wreck of a film. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The movie feels long and strangely derivative of [Crowe's] other, better work. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: It's the opposite of the quick commute of the average commercial movie. It's a meandering road trip instead. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: The trailer for Elizabethtown hits on every major plot point in the film and is roughly 121 minutes shorter. See that instead. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Elizabethtown is scaled big but the experience is curiously uninvolving. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: Plot development in Elizabethtown comes purely because the script says it must, not because the actors or the story make it seem probable. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Think 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. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: The film's golden moments run the gamut from warmhearted to satirical, but a sense of incompletion hampers their effect. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: So curious, and such a disappointment. Read more
John Patterson, L.A. Weekly: Crowe's undeniable gifts -- his well-crafted individual scenes and his love for his characters -- are more evident here than his flaws. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: It's an awfully self-indulgent picture, but Crowe's indulgences pay off beautifully. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: It must have required a lot of chutzpah on Crowe's part to couch that quest in a meditation on the differences between failure and fiasco. When an endeavor goes as spectacularly awry as Elizabethtown, the point is moot. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Like most journeys, Elizabethtown could have used a bit more planning; its detours make backseat drivers of us all. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Whether Elizabethtown proves to be Crowe's Johnstown or just a run-of- the-mill flood, it's still a soggy mess. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: But as messy, unfocused and rambling as this is, fundamentally flawed as any movie about loss that doesn't let its characters or its viewers feel that loss, it's still a most-enjoyable mess to sit through, a Southern-fried Garden State. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Cameron Crowe has such a great track record that Elizabethtown has to be considered a major disappointment. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: In its trimmed version, Elizabethtown is nowhere near one of Crowe's great films (like Almost Famous), but it is sweet and good-hearted and has some real laughs. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Elizabethtown never quite feels like itself, whatever that self might be; it's as if another, subtly but significantly different movie were desperately trying to break through its skin. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: Elizabethtown needed a raffish, Preston Sturges-esque ensemble to offset the corn. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Just as we're reaching for our coats so we can beat the rush to the parking lot, the movie launches a new chapter. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: This is a bona fide, absolute, unmitigated fiasco. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Elizabethtown isn't a refuge for the soul, it's a dead end for the senses. Read more
Dave Calhoun, Time Out: The entire enterprise smacks of wish-fulfilment provoked by middle-age male guilt. Uplifting, it most certainly ain't. Read more
Leslie Felperin, Variety: Lacks the narrative drive one finds in the classic comedies of Preston Sturges, Frank Capra and Billy Wilder, whom Crowe always seems to try to emulate. Read more
Laura Sinagra, Village Voice: It's not a fiasco, but as the voiceover admits, anyone can fail. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: To swallow Elizabethtown without experiencing a sharp tummy cramp of disbelief, you have to accept Orlando Bloom as a tormented soul. Read more