Some of the dialogue seems to have suspiciously sprung out of a corny Deepak Chopra self-help manual.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 3, 2019

Fiennes is at a disadvantage, an actor, not a comedian... Lopez is a perfectly efficient comedienne. But mixed together, they're a few retorts short of a chemistry lesson.

| Jan 12, 2018

Undeniably pleasing if not particularly memorable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 25, 2010

Talented individuals labour over the contrivances in this lightweight romance, and if the result's fluff, at least it's painless.

| Feb 9, 2006

The plotting is pedestrian at best, you know where it is going from the first frame and there isn't anything going on that should hold your attention for any more than a few seconds.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 19, 2003

The rags-to-riches plot should keep hopeless romantics happy, but you just can't help wondering what Hugh Grant, Sandra Bullock and a team of decent joke writers might have achieved with this one.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 23, 2003

Director Wayne Wang coaxes such terrible performances from his cast it's difficult to tell who is most appalling.

| Mar 25, 2003

Instead of a fairy tale, we have a tale told without imagination. It's Cinderella gone stale.

| Mar 22, 2003

The script is so lazy it snores, and Wayne Wang directs like he walked onto the wrong set - true enough, in its way.

| Mar 7, 2003

The bizarre casting sets the tone for a romantic comedy which mistakes asinine for amusing.

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

Not so much a movie as a collection of career moves.

| Jan 13, 2003

Problem is, there really isn't any dialogue here that suggests that Marisa is truly sassy, or charming, or candid, or that the would-be senator is either brilliant or senatorial, or that her accent-less son is not simply on loan from Hogwarts.

| Dec 17, 2002

J. Lo will earn her share of the holiday box office pie, although this movie makes one thing perfectly clear: She's a pretty woman, but she's no working girl.

| Dec 16, 2002

There's no palpable chemistry between Lopez and male lead Ralph Fiennes, plus the script by Working Girl scribe Kevin Wade is workmanlike in the extreme.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 16, 2002

It's a charming romantic fantasy.

Full Review | Dec 16, 2002

A lovably old-school Hollywood confection.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 13, 2002

Little more than a bedtime story for 12-year-old girls.

| Dec 13, 2002

It's a warm, if pallid, romantic comedy that may not do much more to burnish Lopez's reputation, but will certainly not bruise it.

Full Review | Dec 13, 2002

The movie would almost qualify as pleasant, were it not for a certain condescension in its treatment of working-class life and its offhand assumption that lives not buoyed by riches or aggrandized by fame are hardly worth living.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 13, 2002

This sparkling Cinderella tale provides the additional kick of watching the glass slipper crack through the glass ceiling.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 13, 2002