Variety
Director Ryan Murphy's superficial take on Elizabeth Gilbert's phenomenally successful memoir is an exotic junk-food buffet that offers few lasting pleasures or surprises, let alone epiphanies.
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Eat Pray Love
Adapted from the best-selling memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert, stars Julia Roberts as a newly-divorced woman embarking on a journey of self-discovery. Also stars James Franco and Javier Bardem.
Liz Gilbert (Roberts) had everything a woman is supposed to want - a husband, a house, a successful career - but it just 'aint enough. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone and embarks on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery. In her travels, she discovers the true pleasures of food in Italy; the power of prayer in India, and, finally and unexpectedly, the inner peace and balance of true love in Bali.
2010Rating: M, Contains offensive language140 minsUSA
Drama
- Director:
- Ryan Murphy ('Running with Scissors', TV's 'Glee', 'Nip/Tuck')
- Writer:
- Ryan MurphyJennifer Salt
- Cast:
- Julia RobertsJames FrancoJavier BardemBilly CrudupRichard JenkinsViola DavisTuva Novotny
Eat Pray Love / Reviews
The New York Times
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.
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Shameless wish-fulfillment, a Harlequin novel crossed with a mystic travelogue, and it mercifully reverses the life chronology of many people, which is Love Pray Eat.
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New York Daily News
Director Ryan Murphy achieved a major casting coup in landing Julia Roberts to play Gilbert - or Liz, as she's called here. As it turns out, though, a lesser star may have been a better choice.
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Hollywood Reporter
The film never ventures, even once, into a situation that does not reek of comfy familiarity.
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Empire Magazine
A beautiful, languid travelogue, although with some of the source novel's empowerment diluted.
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Christchurch Press
Eat Pray Love is based on the best-selling autobiographical book by writer Elizabeth Gilbert.
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