Almost Famous Reviews

will satisfy many music fans for its honest portrayal of the rock-band life

Full Review | Original Score: B

...funny, joyous, touching, and moving...a very personal film and a most-universal one combined.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

Great, but lots of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Director Cameron Crowe won the Original Screenplay Oscar for his warmly nostalgic, often sharply observed memoir of his early days as a music journalist

Full Review | Original Score: B+

Whether disappointed or elated, Cameron Crowe's observations are trenchant. Instinct is the greatest asset as idols let you down. That first gulp of passion in a profession can quench you for years. Quite often, bassists and drummers have little to say.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

It's a world of brotherhood, groupies, the bright spotlight of fame, and the bitterness of business, packaged into a gushing, intuitive valentine from Crowe to his former magical life.

Full Review | Original Score: A

Cameron Crowe has a knack for making contagious movies that pull audiences into a whirlpool of situations that make you feel impossibly cool because his characters aren't near as cool as their surroundings imply.

Full Review | Original Score: A

The movie's so clever and endearing, you can forget the almost.

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Easily the best film on Crowe's already impressive roster.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Neither as outright funny nor as resonant as it seems to want to be.

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The film's charm owes far more to its creator's brilliant writing than to his anonymous direction.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Crowe softens just about everything, as if he didn't want to hurt the feelings of anyone he knew back then.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Most of the film is a testament to Mr. Crowe's impressive grasp of the music industry, its relationships, and its particular definition of cool and uncool.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

None of the non-musical components on the screen matched the excitement of the music.

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It's a sweet-minded, picaresque story, woolly with some of its dramatic details, but stacked with attractions...

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Profoundly affecting.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Almost perfect on numerous levels.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

An endearing, inspiring film that truly has something to offer for everyone.

| Original Score: A

The acting is unforgettable.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

It's a well-modulated, immensely likable picture that's finally too polite for both its subject matter and its critical theme.