Eat Pray Love

Eat Pray Love is currently streaming in Australia on BINGE and Foxtel Now, and in the US on Netflix, and it earns its romantic beats rather than assuming them. The runtime earns every minute, with nothing here that feels like padding. A 6/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Julia Roberts carries the emotional throughline with real conviction. Start it on BINGE whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

Eat Pray Love arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. The chemistry between the leads is the engine that drives everything, and Eat Pray Love makes sure it fires. A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself". Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem lead a cast that earns the romance rather than assuming it. It hit screens in 2010. Romance lives or dies on chemistry, and Eat Pray Love has it in the cast combination that the writers chose to put at the centre of everything. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

Eat Pray Love is the kind of thing you watch without apology. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. A contained runtime means every scene is doing real work. The chemistry Julia Roberts brings to it is the engine that drives everything. A rarer quality than it sounds — earning the romantic beats rather than assuming them.