Disposable teen romance...

| Jul 2, 2022

Even Moore fans may find this hard to deal with.

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

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

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

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

I've seen a lot of dumb teen romances in the last couple years, but How to Deal, is a welcome exception.

Full Review | Jul 21, 2003

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 20, 2003

Painless to watch, but it's marred by some significant flaws.

| Jul 19, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jul 19, 2003

After a while the bad lighting, graceless editing, sluggish dialogue and self-conscious performances begin to seem like marks of authenticity, as if the movie had been made not just for and about teenagers, but by them.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 19, 2003

A bad, unimaginative story posing pretentiously as the very opposite.

Full Review | Jul 18, 2003

Another soundtrack-driven, disposable, not entirely objectionable teen movie.

| Jul 18, 2003

Very melodramatic.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 18, 2003

Sounds like a bad episode of Dawson's Creek, but even the show's worst saga would have more emotional value than the tepid and amateurishly presented goings-on here.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 18, 2003

A picture that's all over the map.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 18, 2003

The film, based on Sarah Dessen's young-adult novels Someone Like You and That Summer, isn't that good. But Moore is.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 18, 2003

You do need a pretty strong stomach to swallow this sappy teen soaper.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 18, 2003

May serve as training wheels for the next generation of romance novel fans.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 18, 2003

It's refreshing to see young people grappling with substantive matters for a change, but Clare Kilner piles on enough angst to fuel a month of soap opera.

| Jul 18, 2003

There's a kind of timeless, weirdly chaste 'nowhereness' to the whole enterprise, its dilemmas and behaviours as applicable to 1973 as 2003.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 18, 2003

How to Deal might be a serviceable drama for kids. For anyone with a driver's license, though, Moore's sophomore vehicle hits too many wrong notes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 18, 2003