Eat Pray Love
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: August 13, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 39 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
22
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Time OutJoshua Rothkopf
All of the performances are knockouts, especially The Visitor's Richard Jenkins as a damaged Texas spiritualist who steeps the movie in intimacy. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Is it a romantic comedy? Is it a chick flick? This is silly, since, in truth, it's neither. It's simply a Julia Roberts movie, often a lovely one. Read full review
75
Tampa Bay TimesSteve Persall
Eat Pray Love is like one of those rich dishes Liz consumes in Italy; robustly flavored and guiltily pleasurable. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
It is 140 minutes long and repetitious beyond belief. Yet for all its weaknesses - unconscious contradictions, travelogue simplicity and mix-and-match spirituality - Eat Pray Love is, like its central character, on a genuine quest. Read full review
75
MovielineStephanie Zacharek
Eat Pray Love works quite serviceably as a light comedy and a pleasing travelogue. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
The film is far from perfect, but it's likely to inspire more than few quests for balance -- or at least a fabulous bowl of linguine. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey
If there is one constant in Eat Pray Love, the imperfect yet beautifully rendered adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir on a year of heartbreak and healing starring Julia Roberts - it is this: There will be tears. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
The film offers an easygoing and generous blend of wish fulfillment, vicarious luxury, wry humor and spiritual uplift, with a star, Julia Roberts, who elicits both envy and empathy. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
It lacks the resonances of Gilbert's book. Read full review
63
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Eat Pray Love finally settles into its own cinematic destiny as an attractive escapist love story, in which the romance is more with the I than with the guy. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-Dispatchgail Pennington
The word that sums up the essence of this movie is "frustrating." Read full review
63
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
Eat Pray Love isn't a bad movie -- just a spiritually dead one, wearing and wearying. Read full review
63
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike Scott
I've got a fourth verb to add to the comma-challenged title of Julia Roberts' how-to-be-happy travelogue, Eat Pray Love. How about "edit"? Read full review
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