A Prairie Home Companion Critic Reviews

The result is at once familiar and disconcerting, meta-Keillor done in Altman's desultory, distracted style.Read the full review

At its best, it's a gentle meditation on mortality. But at weaker moments it feels meandering and strangely empty.Read the full review

It's not a perfect movie, and it does not aspire to be a great one. It's just wonderful.Read the full review

A Prairie Home Companion tries to embrace the spirit of that longtime radio series but suffocates the very qualities that make the original show so special in the first place.Read the full review

This combination of storytelling, singing, and corny comedy is sometimes a little too slow and long-winded for its own good, but at least the aftertaste isn't bitter.Read the full review

Both magical and consistently joyous. The director, Robert Altman, and the writer, Garrison Keillor, have, against all odds, transmuted the fatigued public radio institution into a lovely fable about mortality, fleeting fame, fondness for the past and the ineffable beauty of life in the present.Read the full review

Not since Woody Allen's "Radio Days" has anyone created such a cinematic Valentine to the wonderfully imaginative medium of radio as A Prairie Home Companion.Read the full review

With a theatrical setting, a large ensemble cast, and musical numbers, Altman and his crew are in their own tailored version of heaven.Read the full review

This is not one of the good Altmans. This isn't even one of the mediocre Altmans.Read the full review