Dirt Music received generally negative reviews from critics. On
Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews, with an average rating of . The website's critics consensus reads: "As beautifully filmed as it is emotionally hollow,
Dirt Music goes digging for romance but only buries the audience in mounds of melodrama." Film reviewer, Luke Buckmaster, referred to it as an "only intermittently engaging film". ==References==