| 100 |
Film.com
A wondrous honesty.
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| 100 |
Rolling Stone
If you haven't already sold your soul to rock & roll, Almost Famous should seal the deal.
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| 100 |
Los Angeles Times
See it and it'll stay with you as your own memories do: funny, poignant, bittersweet and irreplaceable.
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| 100 |
Time
So Almost Famous is almost fabulous. Oh, all right. The movie's so clever and endearing, you can forget the almost.
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| 100 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It'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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| 100 |
New York Post
An unqualified triumph, the year's best movie so far.
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| 100 |
Miami Herald
A rich, marvelous movie -- the kind that enchants on so many different levels, it leaves you feeling giddy.
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| 100 |
New York Daily News
A great movie -- and the best movie ever about the '70s rock era.
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| 100 |
Chicago Tribune
I loved this movie madly, and so will many of you.
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| 100 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Oh, what a lovely film. I was almost hugging myself while I watched it.
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| 100 |
Film.com
You'll treasure this movie.
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| 100 |
The New York Times
What 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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| 91 |
Entertainment Weekly
Crowe, staying close to his memories, has gotten it, for perhaps the first time, onto the screen.
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| 91 |
Portland Oregonian
One lucky guy, on a roll with rock.
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| 90 |
TNT RoughCut
Crowe has never been better.
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| 90 |
Dallas Observer
The 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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| 90 |
TNT RoughCut
Fugit and Hudson, despite getting fifth and third billing, are really the stars here; and they give the movie a genuine center of gravity.
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| 90 |
TNT RoughCut
Casting is perfect all down the line.
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| 90 |
TV Guide
Sharply 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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| 90 |
TNT RoughCut
A must-see.
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| 90 |
LA Weekly
Crowe has made a hugely entertaining, nearly pitch-perfect film about rock & roll.
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| 90 |
Washington Post
It takes the rock movie into regions it has never been before.
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| 90 |
Slate
Crowe's world is an open ecosystem --transcendentally open. This movie is his boombox held aloft.
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| 89 |
Austin Chronicle
Crowe 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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| 88 |
Boston Globe
Hollywood 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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| 88 |
Charlotte Observer
Crowe 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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| 88 |
USA Today
A movie that is easily likable.
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| 88 |
Mr. Showbiz
Crowe's script is a thing of wonder, and he again proves himself to be an outstanding director of actors.
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| 88 |
San Francisco Examiner
More often than not the film casts an infectious, evocative spell.
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| 80 |
Salon.com
Like 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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| 80 |
Village Voice
Panoramic yet cozy, enthusiastically glib.
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| 80 |
Variety
More gentle and modestly insightful than it is exhilarating or revelatory.
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| 80 |
Newsweek
Though 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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| 80 |
Chicago Reader
This 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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| 80 |
Washington Post
This is wonderful stuff, as far as it goes.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
Fugit 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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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Crowe 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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| 63 |
Baltimore Sun
Has 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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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
A sweet but curiously unfulfilling story.
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