Formulaic script and uneven tone. Disappointing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 24, 2010

The script stoops to cheap gags that undercut Affleck's efforts to sustain a believable character.

Full Review | Jun 23, 2008

The 'grown-up' Kevin Smith exhibits greater ambition, but he's not quite so much fun.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 18, 2004

The fact that Ben Affleck is required to emote should have been a warning sign to all involved with this project

| Jun 16, 2004

Sometimes charming but frustratingly hackneyed exploration of the relationship between father and daughter.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 25, 2004

Its heart is in the right place. Unfortunately, that heart is about the only element here that doesn't strain credibility.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 28, 2004

The grating sense of commercial calculation in Jersey Girl consistently undercuts Smith's fine writing.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 27, 2004

Inspired by Smith's own awe and amazement at being a father, the movie is modest and entertaining, with a minimum of sentimental goo, and it demands little of us except a good-natured willingness to go with it.

| Mar 27, 2004

The filmmaker drowns his trademark edgy stew of smutty humor, stiff acting and dime-store insight into human nature with a gravy of glutinous bathos, making for a singularly unpalatable dish.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2004

This kind of weepy material works in the hands of melodrama masters like Douglas Sirk or Pedro Almodovar. But here, it's over-the-top and it's just horrible.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2004

Smith is looking more and more like a developing major talent, so it could be years until we get a handle on this movie's legacy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 26, 2004

Watching Jersey Girl is akin to being smothered by a basket of warm puppies.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 26, 2004

It's saved by an unusually charming child actor: Castro, who has a voice like a pan flute and a sweetly low-key screen presence.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 26, 2004

Smith is trying to say something heartfelt, even as he's using formulas that are unworthy of him. Thus, Jersey Girl is a step, not a misstep.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 26, 2004

Sweet and conventional, with just enough wacky Kevin Smith moments to keep it going.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 26, 2004

Affleck may be a nice man, but he has a seemingly congenital inability to do anything convincingly, which is only made worse by Smith's apparent immunity to cloying sentiment.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 26, 2004

The writer-director brings nothing new to the shopworn family-vs.-work dilemma.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 26, 2004

Affleck is buried in the cliches of his role, or worse, having to react to the fatuousness of Tyler.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 26, 2004

It's the kind of movie Hugh Grant might make, except for the way Smith has with his dialogue, which is truer and more direct than we expect.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 26, 2004

This is a very good collection of episodes about the weekly compromises that parents make for their kids and the little dreams that children have for themselves.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 26, 2004