Today, the Democrat-Gazette offers a teaser of tomorrow’s Phillip Martin movie review. Here’s the money graph:
Tone-deaf and mawkish, the movie stands as a vulgar monument to the New Age tendency to trivialize the numinous and to misread Emersonian American Individualism as permission to take whatever one deems essential to the nourishment of Self.
Another take, which continues on the jump, from our contributor Natalie Elliott:
Apparently, there’s another demographic of the careerist, self-aware independent woman. You know, not the one that sleeps with every eligible bachelor in the greater metropolitan area and swaps stories about it with her besties over flirtinis. Rather, the kind who’s actually just looking for love without the misadventure. Author Elizabeth Gilbert, played in this film adaptation of her fantastically successful memoir, “Eat Pray Love,” by a buoyant Julia Roberts, is the poster girl for this latter type.