The movie won't take you to the top of the mountain or leave you with memories and references for discussion, but you won't be bored if you see it. Without compromising my standards, I can give this film an unqualified plus.

| Jan 16, 2018

It's [writer/director Nancy Meyers'] typical, though smart, romantic comedy for a more mature audience. But, unlike Something's Gotta Give, there are no Oprah-like a-ha moments, which made it really quite unspecial and fall sorta flat.

| Original Score: B | Sep 11, 2017

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 18, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: B- | May 6, 2011

It's really not all that complicated. But it is entertaining. It's pure, simple fun, with Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin playing Doris Day and Rock Hudson as they might have been if they had ruled in the sexually knowing oughts, instead of the virginal ear

| Original Score: B- | Jan 15, 2010

Soft, warm, doughy comfort food it was no doubt intended to be. The screenplay is jovial; the actors twinkle and Mamma Mia! fans should love it.

Full Review | Jan 15, 2010

A refined, balanced and eminently funny film, featuring three sublime performances from its incredibly talented leads.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 11, 2010

Like all Meyers' films, it's more about interior design porn than real human emotions and drags on for far too long. Still, Streep, Krasinski and Baldwin are so good, they almost make it work. Almost.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 8, 2010

Streep is as enjoyable as ever, and if laughs count for anything, this is one of the better romantic comedies of the season.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2010

It's Complicated is the kind of wholesome adult-oriented entertainment that once formed the bedrock of classical Hollywood.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2010

For me, Meyers's romcoms have been unwatchable because of the utter fakeness of their leading players: but I must confess, Baldwin and Streep do have that most over-analysed thing, "chemistry."

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2010

No one's calling it great art. But as an indulgent confection, it's more filling and less embarrassing than we had any right to expect.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2010

It may not be the saviour of romantic comedies, but this is an enjoyable film with great leads and comic chops. Complicated? Not really, but it is a laugh.

Full Review | Jan 8, 2010

It's Complicated is another Streepshow, like Mamma Mia, that illustrates the power and willingness of Hollywood's best actress to slough inhibitions like Salome's veils.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2010

On it drags, simpering the while over the lavish accoutrements of upper-middle-class life as though they contained the key to all happiness - which, in Meyers's worldview, they probably do.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 8, 2010

A slice of pure Hollywood hokum overstaying its welcome by at least 15 long minutes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 8, 2010

This is escapist fluff, pure and simple, but it's given a huge boost by some deliciously funny scripting from writer-director Nancy Meyers and a trio of ace lead performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 8, 2010

I can't say Meyers completely won me over, the blatant superficially of most of this rubbing me the wrong way.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 28, 2009

[Meyers has] given us her thinnest slice of comic relationship angst yet, proving, I guess, that you actually can be too thin.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 28, 2009