Shyer's direction of actors rises instantly to a level of cartoonish hysteria and descends only for occasional wet bursts of sentimentality.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 24, 2021

Baby Boom is so far into the realm of fable as to be a cartoon, or a wish fulfillment. It's as if Frank Capra had read Ms. and missed the point.

| Jun 24, 2021

"Baby Boom" is a classic of insipidity, oozing sexual stereotypes from every pore, with dialogue that can't tell the difference between bright and trite and a music score that may give cavities.

| Jun 24, 2021

The script is too coy and calculating. But watching Keaton romp through "Baby Boom" is a special treat.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 24, 2021

There's just something irresistible about a major star dropping his or her guard and going full-out in the service of a comic romp.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 24, 2021

This smug exercise seems tailor-made for Keaton, who mugs shamelessly through all the sloppy sentimentality as if rehearsing an Oscar acceptance speech.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jun 24, 2021

Ultimately, "Baby Boom" is a bust because the writers took the baby out of the boom instead of taking the boom out of the baby.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 24, 2021

A fine multi-layered romantic comedy with delightful, laugh-out-loud turns from the two leads.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 26, 2019

The humor in "Baby Boom" is sharp without being heartless.

| Jan 26, 2019

Constructed almost entirely upon facile and familiar media cliches about 'parenting' and the super-yuppie set, Baby Boom has the superficiality of a project inspired by a lame New York magazine cover story and sketched out on a cocktail napkin at Spago's.

| Mar 26, 2009

"Baby Boom" makes no effort to show us real life. It is a fantasy about mothers and babies and sweetness and love, with just enough wicked comedy to give it an edge.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 23, 2004

''BABY BOOM'' isn't much more than a glorified sitcom, but it's funny, and it's liable to hit home.

| May 20, 2003

Mildly cute chick flick with a great performance by Sam Shepherd.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2002

As a gentle comedy, this works in spades and while lesser actors may well have relegated it to made-for-telly cheese, Keaton is, of course, loaded with charisma and comic sense.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2001

If "Baby Boom" were a diaper, though, it would be disposable.

| Jan 1, 2000

It's so sweetly manipulative, it's bound to reassure those birth-dearth worrywarts.

| Jan 1, 2000