Eat Pray Love Reviews
Top CriticThe film version is pure wish-fulfillment fantasy.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Moviedex
Merely good and not great as many fans of the book hoped it would be.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Fan The Fire
On the surface a beautiful film. But those looking for some hidden spiritual meaning be warned - Eat Pray Love doesn't go that deep.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The Standard
Eat Pray Love ... [hits] its target demographic right between the eyes, but in the same way that a self-help book may appeal to thousands, it will never be great literature.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The Vine
It is a perfectly competently constructed movie, and an enjoyable one too.
FILMINK (Australia)
While undeniably a chick flick, this is a classy one bolstered by an all-round excellent cast and well crafted script.
Urban Cinefile
Of course, we should remember that the film delivers exactly what it promises by way of the ultimate romantic fantasy for women over 30 or so (divorced or not)
Urban Cinefile
While it touches the main plot points of Elizabeth Gilbert's bestselling novel like stepping stones, it is left to Julia Roberts' bewitching smile and Javier Bardem's sensuality to convince us that Liz's journey of self discovery is one we want to take
Empire Magazine Australasia
Preaching to the converted, fans of the book should be sated. Julia Roberts is easy to love.
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| Original Score: 3
Liverpool Echo
Roberts is luminous against breathtaking locations including all of Rome's landmarks and colourful, sun-nourished eastern landscapes.
Daily Mirror [UK]
A movie of picture postcard landscapes and ridiculously hunky blokes, this is very much cinematic comfort food where the answers to life's problems come a little too neatly gift-wrapped.
Radio Times
The cast is spectacular: Roberts looks relaxed, luminous and credible, Javier Bardem is suitably rugged as her new lover, while Richard Jenkins is brilliant as her grumbling prayer pal.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Empire Magazine
A beautiful, languid travelogue, although with some of the source novel's empowerment diluted.
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| Original Score: 3/5
The movie is aware of its own riches; it fills up your plate and dares you not to eat.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Birmingham Post
If you like Roberts and understand what it means to ''smile with your liver'', this is the film for you.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Though many movies have explored Eastern culture and juxtaposed it against the American experience, there still is something to learn here, especially because it repeatedly questions what's important in life.
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| Original Score: B
Laramie Movie Scope
It does focus on spirituality, a vital part of most human beings which nevertheless is absent in most films.
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| Original Score: B
Slant Magazine
What's inevitably lost is any real attempt to track Liz's internal shifts, the way her travels jostle her preconceived notions of selfhood and spirituality.
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| Original Score: 2/4
The movie is completely aware of its own riches; it fills up your plate and dares you not to eat.
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| Original Score: 4/5
