Eat Pray Love

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The film never ventures, even once, into a situation that does not reek of comfy familiarity."

"A beautiful, languid travelogue, although with some of the source novel's empowerment diluted."

"Eat Pray Love is based on the best-selling autobiographical book by writer Elizabeth Gilbert."