Almost Famous Reviews
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God has truly blessed Cameron Crowe. I know this because Crowe is one of the few people in the world who can nostalgically look back on their teenage years and not see personal misery and suffering.
Top CriticNeither as outright funny nor as resonant as it seems to want to be.
eFilmCritic.com
Crowe softens just about everything, as if he didn't want to hurt the feelings of anyone he knew back then.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Combustible Celluloid
Suffers from a strange fakeness.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Nick's Flick Picks
Almost a movie, full of great ideas for characters and situations, but not yet able to make them as persuasive or affecting as it thinks they are.
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| Original Score: C+
Panoramic yet cozy, enthusiastically glib, Almost Famous suggests a universe of interlocking sitcoms.
The entire movie is as consequential as the Raspberries' greatest hits.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
[Crowe] seems to be remembering experiences that he doesn't have a hold on, and emotions that he's never completely sorted out for himself.
Slant Magazine
A nostalgia factory of popular music that is less a movie than it is a vehicle for baby boomer reminiscence.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Sight and Sound
These characters have none of the passion and incipient mania that made Jerry Maguire -- or John Cusack's Lloyd Dobler in Crowe's debut Say Anything -- so engaging.
PopMatters
The moments are too pat, the jokes too predictable, and the whole thing lacks the sprawl of life, the verisimilitude that would sell the story.
Philadelphia Daily News
Almost Famous isn't half bad, but I have to say that after 120 minutes of it, I was more than ready to flee, lest the cast break into another group version of 'Tiny Dancer.'
It's a lot like being invited to a friend's house to watch home movies, but he keeps the real stuff locked up and shows old programs he taped from television instead.
This is the celluloid version of a glossy magazine feature -- easily perused, modestly entertaining, the kind of piece designed to please the publisher by not taxing (or offending) the reader.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
The Nation
It's a well-modulated, immensely likable picture that's finally too polite for both its subject matter and its critical theme.
None of the non-musical components on the screen matched the excitement of the music.
National Post
