While the title track is a gentle, affecting ballad,
It's All in the Movies doesn't contain enough similarly engaging material to make the record successful. The album is at its best when Haggard delves into western swing, such as "Living with the Shades Pulled Down," or when he delivers straightforward ballads like "Nothin's Worse Than Losing" and "I Know An Ending When It Comes, " but too many of the songs on the LP are pleasant, but inconsequential, filler. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine