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Inspired by Smith's own awe and amazement at being a father, the movie is modest and entertaining, with a minimum of sentimental goo, and it demands little of us except a good-natured willingness to go with it.
This kind of weepy material works in the hands of melodrama masters like Douglas Sirk or Pedro Almodovar. But here, it's over-the-top and it's just horrible.
March 26, 2004
Variety
The script stoops to cheap gags that undercut Affleck's efforts to sustain a believable character.
June 23, 2008
Chicago Reader
The grating sense of commercial calculation in Jersey Girl consistently undercuts Smith's fine writing.
The filmmaker drowns his trademark edgy stew of smutty humor, stiff acting and dime-store insight into human nature with a gravy of glutinous bathos, making for a singularly unpalatable dish.