Elizabethtown

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Fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) is on the verge of ending it all. But he gets a new lease on life when he returns to his family's small Kentucky hometown for his father's funeral. Along the way, he meets a quirky flight attendant (Kirsten Dunst) with whom he falls in love, easing the pain of his recent break-up with his girlfriend (Jessica Biel).
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Netflix Rating: 3.3
NYT Review: Cameron Crowe's tale of romance and redemptions is a strange, messy stew of a movie, with some tasty garden gleanings, a few chunks of gristle and too many leftovers thrown in the pot for it to be entirely digestible. Read the review
Top Rotten Tomatoes Critics: It's not easy to be life-affirming and satirical in the same breath, and Crowe can't quite manage the job.

Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News

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. full review

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

So curious, and such a disappointment. full review

Christy Lemire, Associated Press

The film's problems lie with the lack of spark between a wired Dunst and a bland Bloom.

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Leaves one adrift on a raft of morose questions. How could this vacuous movie have got made? Didn't anyone at Paramount, which paid for the film, read the script? And also: What in the world has happened to Cameron Crowe?

David Denby, New Yorker

Cameron Crowe is a romantic at heart and there's nothing wrong with that. full review

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

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. full review

Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

To swallow Elizabethtown without experiencing a sharp tummy cramp of disbelief, you have to accept Orlando Bloom as a tormented soul. full review

Desson Thomson, Washington Post

Elizabethtown isn't a refuge for the soul, it's a dead end for the senses. full review

Peter Howell, Toronto Star

Not even the soundtrack can save this Crowe effort.

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer

Cameron Crowe's romantic comedy Elizabethtown is a mess, but it's such an amiable, bighearted mess that it manages to remain entertaining even as it's going hopelessly astray.

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press

Like most journeys, Elizabethtown could have used a bit more planning; its detours make backseat drivers of us all. full review

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

Choppily edited and only sporadically funny.

Lou Lumenick, New York Post

Whether Elizabethtown proves to be Crowe's Johnstown or just a run-of- the-mill flood, it's still a soggy mess. full review

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News

It's an awfully self-indulgent picture, but Crowe's indulgences pay off beautifully. full review

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald

The trailer for Elizabethtown hits on every major plot point in the film and is roughly 121 minutes shorter. See that instead. full review

Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle

This is a bona fide, absolute, unmitigated fiasco. full review

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

This, folks, is not entertainment.

Tom Long, Detroit News

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. full review

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

full review by Bob Mondello, NPR.org