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100Oh, what a lovely film. I was almost hugging myself while I watched it.
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100I loved this movie madly, and so will many of you.
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100A rich, marvelous movie -- the kind that enchants on so many different levels, it leaves you feeling giddy.
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100A great movie -- and the best movie ever about the '70s rock era.
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100An unqualified triumph, the year's best movie so far.
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100It's not only the most gentle and effortlessly funny movie so far this year, it's a film with a style and sensibility that wonderfully harkens back to Hollywood's golden age of sophisticated comedy, and in particular to the masterpieces of Crowe's filmmaking idol, Billy Wilder.
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100If you haven't already sold your soul to rock & roll, Almost Famous should seal the deal.
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100A wondrous honesty.
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100You'll treasure this movie.
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100See it and it'll stay with you as your own memories do: funny, poignant, bittersweet and irreplaceable.
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100What Mr. Crowe has done is nonetheless remarkable. He has made a movie about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll that you would be happy to take your mother to see.
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100So Almost Famous is almost fabulous. Oh, all right. The movie's so clever and endearing, you can forget the almost.
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91Crowe, staying close to his memories, has gotten it, for perhaps the first time, onto the screen.
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91One lucky guy, on a roll with rock.
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90Sharply observed, bittersweet and suffused with the kind of detail that only someone who lived through the era could summon up, Crowe's script is funny, heartfelt and very cool.
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90Casting is perfect all down the line.
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90A must-see.
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90Crowe has made a hugely entertaining, nearly pitch-perfect film about rock & roll.
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90The first relevant film about rock and roll and the music industry, the first film that lets you in on the secret.
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90Crowe's world is an open ecosystem --transcendentally open. This movie is his boombox held aloft.
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90It takes the rock movie into regions it has never been before.
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90Crowe has never been better.
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89Crowe has created a genuine love song for all those who've ever felt their lives to have been saved by rock & roll.
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88Crowe's script is a thing of wonder, and he again proves himself to be an outstanding director of actors.
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88More often than not the film casts an infectious, evocative spell.
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88A movie that is easily likable.
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88Hollywood filmmaking at its best, brimming over with feeling, texture, spirit, and several kinds of keenness that transmute experience into big pop myth.
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88Crowe gave Kate Hudson one pointer while making Almost Famous: Her character simply had to light up every room as soon as she walked into it.
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80Like rock 'n' roll itself, the movie's really all about girls. Even when -- no, especially when -- it's pretending not to be.
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80Panoramic yet cozy, enthusiastically glib.
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80Though acid is dropped, groupies are bartered like poker chips and rock-star egos flare like fireworks, what comes through is the relative innocence of that era.
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80More gentle and modestly insightful than it is exhilarating or revelatory.
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80This is wonderful stuff, as far as it goes.
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80This has much of the warmth and feeling for adolescence that Crowe displayed in his first feature ("Say Anything"), though the slick showboating of "Jerry Maguire" isn't entirely absent either.
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75Fugit gives a starmaking performance as the teenage reporter, and Crudup and Lee are excellent as the band's lead guitarist and singer, respectively.
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75Crowe is so good on mood and milieu that when Elton John's bubblegum ballad "Tiny Dancer" swells on the soundtrack, in this context it sounds like a hymn.
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63Has the sentiment and sweetness of a good coming-of-age movie but lacks the drive and pulse that makes for a great rock and roll movie.
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50A sweet but curiously unfulfilling story.
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