Premiere
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[A] loose-limbed, almost cheerily elegiac picture that convincingly creates its own strange and familiar world." 06/01/2006 p.36Rolling Stone
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Take your time and relax into a movie that's as comfy as Keillor's pillowy baritone....There's magic in it." 06/15/2006 p.106 Los Angeles Times
"Altman uses his trademark wandering camera to mosey from character to character, pausing to watch and listen as they tease one another, reminisce about the old days, [and] worry about the future..." 06/09/2006 p.E10 New York Times
"[T]he movie snuggles deep into the mood and sensibility of its source, Garrison Keillor's long-running radio variety show....It's just wonderful." 06/09/2006 p.E12 Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "PRAIRIE is a gentle movie, set primarily in Minnesota's Fitzgerald Theatre, the real home of the radio show." 02/01/2007 p.41 Rolling Stone
Ranked #10 in Rolling Stone's "The 10 Best Movies Of 2006" -- "The cast, led by the incomparable Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin, glow under Altman's playful watch." 12/28/2006 118 Film Comment
Ranked #18 in Film Comment's "20 Best Films Of 2006." 01/01/2007 p.36 Film Comment
"[Set within a] heartland of boundless creativity and calm stoicism." 01/01/2007 p.39 Uncut
4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his is a lovely curtain call, as wry and irascible as his best films, but warmer and more celebratory than most." 02/01/2007 p.101 Sight and Sound
"This is one of Altman's trademark all-star ensemble pieces, full of his equally trademark overlapping dialogue, his camera floating amiably in seemingly improvised style from group to group." 03/01/2007 p.70-71 Uncut
3 stars out of 5 -- "Robert Altman's final film is a wry meditation on death and the inevitable passing of all things." 08/01/2007 p.137 Chicago Sun-Times
"[A] lovely film about a lovely radio show. It loosely creates the format of the real program....Altman has chosen his actors with love." 11/12/2008 | 
