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A movie so bad it's good. It has the quirky feel of the Tom Robbins novel it was based on. If you want to see a young Lorraine Bracco (Dr. Melfi of The Sopranos) Uma Thurman with big rubber thumbs and lots of dirty cowgirls; then this movie is...
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A movie so bad it's good. It has the quirky feel of the Tom Robbins novel it was based on. If you want to see a young Lorraine Bracco (Dr. Melfi of The Sopranos) Uma Thurman with big rubber thumbs and lots of dirty cowgirls; then this movie is for you. Oh yah, Tom Robbins is the narrator.

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Posted mar 30, 2008 6:16 pm pt

• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  63
  The movie contains its moments, charms and felicities-even its sharp stings of pleasure and pain. [20 May 1994]

  by Michael Wilmington | Read Full Review »
• [+] Portland Oregonian
  
  58
  The novel's exuberance, happy sensuality, goes AWOL in Van Sant's sadder, darker vision. [20 May 1994]

  by Barry Johnson | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  50
  Campbell and Edwards work wonders with the rocky, wide-open Oregon landscape, but none of their periwinkle-blue skies and sparkling shots of whooping cranes in flight can compensate for a film that aims high, means well, and ultimately fails its audience. [20 May 1994]

  by Edward Guthmann | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  50
  Unfortunately, for a number of reasons, the movie does not work, though it's difficult to sort out the "what is" from the "what was" and "what might have been."

  by Marjorie Baumgarten | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  40
  While the results are both cheerful and occasionally inventive, they can't hold a candle to his previous features; too many jokey asides and cameos - not to mention an overdose of plot - keep getting in the way.

  by Jonathan Rosenbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  40
  Pic stays on the surface, without attempting any exploration of painful depths. Result is at best amusing; at worst, uninvolving, often confusing, and sometimes a little boring.

  by Deborah Young | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  38
  No one seems to be having any fun, including the normally masterful Van Sant, whose direction is unstructured, confusing, and lackadaisical.

  by Staff (Not Credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  30
  Loaded as it is with undeveloped notions about feminism and individuality, nothing about it is really memorable except the appealing musicality of the fine k.d. lang/Ben Mink score, which deserves better. [20 May 1994]

  by Kenneth Turan | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  30
  One of the many problems with Gus Van Sant's tortured, worked-over Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is that Sissy Hankshaw talks like a novel, and a dated one at that.

  by Janet Maslin | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  25
  Writer/director Gus Van Sant, who's built his reputation on the romantic decadence of "Drugstore Cowboy" and "My Own Private Idaho," completely misses the poetry and the irony of the book. [20 May 1994]

  by Rick Groen | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  25
  Van Sant winds up with disconnected, dispirited pieces that never come together and lift off the screen with a whoosh of sly high spirits. [20 May 1994]

  by Jay Carr | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
  20
  Van Sant's film is cold and the gallery of eccentrics merely come across as vulgar caricatures.

  by Colette Maude | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  12
  Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is one of the more empty, pointless, baffling films I can remember, and the experience of viewing it is an exercise in nothingness.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  12
  Even Cowgirls is as close to an unwatchable film as there is available at this time in the theaters.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  10
  Even Cowgirls Get the Blues the movie, starring Uma Thurman, is a moribund, monotonous affair.

  by Desson Howe | Read Full Review »