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Almost Famous Reviews
Perhaps the most flat-out entertaining movie of its year.
It’s more of a sweet, satirical take on an extraordinary childhood, concerned with careful character development far more than unforgettable misadventures on the road.
Almost Famous is a film that lives up to its credo of being honest and unmerciful about the people, places, and period it depicts, with love and melancholy mixed in bittersweet balance.
Twenty one years on and there's still much to love in Crowe's last great work, and it's hard not to well up when the whole bus sing Elton John's Tiny Dancer.
If you haven't already sold your soul to rock & roll, Almost Famous should seal the deal. It’s pure pleasure. Just don’t expect the dark side. Not since A Hard Day’s Night has a movie caught the thrumming exuberance of going where the music takes you.
The film shimmers with the irresistible pleasures that define Hollywood at its best -- it's polished like glass, funny, knowing and bright, and filled with characters whose lives are invariably sexier and more purposeful than our own.
This movie splashes a toast of Jack Daniels on the grave, scribbling graffiti optimism on the tombstone: Rock is dead. Long live rock.
It's a coming-of-age tale compressed into a few mad weeks. And Crowe, the ex-journalist, captures the essence of good journalism -- its watchfulness, persistence and that instinct for a good human story.
[Almost Famous] is eager to please and does just that, but it’s neither as outright funny nor as resonant as it seems to want to be.
Mr. Crowe, working in the predominantly no environment of studio production, has managed to make a wonderful, personal movie that says yes to love of music and love of life.
Oh, what a lovely film. I was almost hugging myself while I watched it.
Resistance to the euphoric swell is futile: suddenly, vintage Elton is unselfconsciously cool again. That's what Crowe can do at his best. He makes irony seem ridiculous, which itself is beautifully ironic for someone trying to keep rock alive.
This is the 43-year-old Crowe’s family album, the equivalent of a supergroup tribute to the people who set him on his path in life. It is a love letter from a fan, and it is written from the heart.
It rocks hard and sweetly, making that past live and sing for us. I loved this movie madly, and so will many of you.
Almost Famous is a case study in the decline of music and movies. Both want to keep the fun in profundity. But neither has figured out how to have it both ways.
Hollywood filmmaking at its best, brimming over with feeling, texture, spirit, and several kinds of keenness that transmute experience into big pop myth.
It doesn't have the obsessive, closed-in feel that mars many personal projects. You don't even have to like rock and roll to enjoy it. You just have to like people, which Crowe obviously does.
A not-quite-great but thoroughly enchanting memoir. Raggedy as the clothes and shaggy as the coifs sported by its characters, it is the movie equivalent of A Sentimental Education.
Crowe is a charming storyteller with a knack for romantic comedy that is actually romantic, and he shows his chops here. Even so, by movie's end, I'd had my fill of Patrick Fugit... There are too many good actors stealing too many scenes from him here.
It's heartfelt, funny, sensitive and wise, and Crowe's obvious love for the music runs so deep that the film ends up rattling around in your soul, like a thumping bass on the other side of a thin apartment wall.