Never met a cliché it didn't love or a situation too hackneyed to be inserted into the mix.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 31, 2021

I really wanted to like Because I Said So, but ultimately I just felt pity for it.

| Nov 21, 2019

In the end, while the mixture looks sweet, it goes down decidedly sour.

| Oct 16, 2018

This movie manages to be offensive and yet dull and predictable, as phony as a Kate Spade sidewalk knock-off bag and as unoriginal as the ready-for VH1 soundtrack.

| Original Score: F | Dec 9, 2014

Because I Said So seems like it's supposed to be a paean of sorts to motherhood and the enduring love that entails, a love so strong that it inevitably drives its possessor somewhat batty. But what it is, is muddled crap.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 7, 2011

Like steel pins poking through the eyes

| Aug 28, 2009

The ensuing cycle of miscommunication is endless and trying.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 23, 2009

This is a by-the-book chick flick we're talking about, but the writers and director apparently didn't want to push the envelope when it came to the supporting characters -- or the main characters.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2008

Because I Said So isn't very funny, and no amount of having Diane Keaton act all post-menopausally zany is going to create the tension that just isn't there.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 22, 2008

A veteran of classic films such as Annie Hall and The Godfather, Diane Keaton should have known better than to sign up for this kind of light and fluffy schmaltz, even if the director promised she would look great in her underwear.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 1, 2007

Matricide.

| Original Score: C | Aug 1, 2007

It's a lame duck of a film.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 4, 2007

A light-weight comedy about mothers and daughters, Because I Said So is a bit like the chocolate soufflés that Mandy Moore's Milly cooks throughout. It's light and fluffy, but on occasions it does not rise to the occasion

| Apr 28, 2007

each character in the film is so shallow and cold that there's nobody for the audience to cheer on.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 7, 2007

There's more than enough material here to make an enjoyable drama about a mother and her adult daughters. But the writers and director fail on virtually every front.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 3, 2007

I don't think anyone actually wrote Because I Said So; I think that some Hollywood artificial intelligence think-tank instead fed DVD box sets of The Gilmore Girls and Sex and the City into a computer, along with Pottery Barn catalogs for roughage. ...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 2, 2007

At 61, Diane Keaton is still doing her ditzy, girlish thing, but the act is getting a little oppressive and rarely more so than in Because I Said So, an indulgent comedy.

| Feb 24, 2007

[A] better movie might have surfaced if everyone had taken their Ritalin and calmed down.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 21, 2007

I hated this movie. I think it's the worst performance of Diane Keaton's career.

Full Review | Feb 20, 2007

In this unwatchable romantic comedy from director Michael Lehmann Diane Keaton plays Daphne Wilder, an inept mother of three pretty but not-believable-as-siblings daughters.

| Original Score: D | Feb 19, 2007