Disposable teen romance...

| Jul 2, 2022

This film doesn't set out for greatness, which is good as it doesn't even come close.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 11, 2020

There are some real issues discussed and dealt with here, but I fear they are basically lost in the poor dialogue and erratic direction.

| Nov 13, 2019

How to Deal would be a terrible movie anyway, but here are seven reasons parents with children under 13 years old might want to practice due diligence: sex scenes, the F-word, teenage pregnancy, teenage death, tobacco use, alcohol use, drug use.

| Original Score: D | Jan 3, 2018

Even Moore fans may find this hard to deal with.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 24, 2010

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 16, 2005

Fails to acknowledge the real problems teenagers face.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Sep 20, 2004

Will enthral pre-teen chippies with its wholesome, marshmallow-peep-sweet vacuous-ness.

| Original Score: 69/100 | Feb 13, 2004

[T]his is a movie that teenage girls -- and nearly no one else -- should enjoy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 2, 2004

In delivering its message of teen perseverence, How to Deal piles on "issues" without finding a reasonable connective narrative.

Full Review | Sep 20, 2003

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 12, 2003

Overcrowded with characters and subplots, the film gives short shrift to the parts that should matter.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 5, 2003

How To Deal eventually folds because it stacks its deck against a true belief in the possibility of love. . .

| Aug 2, 2003

The pop diva goes down with the bubbles in this hopelessly shallow soap opera.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 31, 2003

Would probably hold a special place in my heart regardless, due to the fact that it portrays a Star Wars geek as actually desirable, but this is a good movie by any standard.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 27, 2003

How to Deal is about dealing, I guess; I mean, that's what the title says after all.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 26, 2003

In its non-hysterical depiction of the fog of personal relationship wars, the movie gently makes the point that, yeah, it really is a wild world out there.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 24, 2003

Maudlin teen nonsense at its worst, its most sappy, its least believable

| Original Score: C- | Jul 23, 2003

The handful of comic moments will serve up a few good laughs.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 22, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 22, 2003