Honestly, there's very little there that's likely to appeal to kids anyway -- except maybe an early appearance by Adam Sandler being Adam Sandler.

| Jan 30, 2024

...success is due almost entirely to the engaging, charismatic efforts of its various performers...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 14, 2022

Even fans of Nora Ephron knew well enough to stay home and roast chestnuts on an open fire instead.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 29, 2018

Even for a Christmas comedy, it's blasphemous -- delightfully so.

| Oct 17, 2018

Director/co-scripter Nora Ephron pitches the humor at a cacophonous level and displays the comedic equivalent of two left feet in evolving an absurdist, slapstick yarn.

| Jun 1, 2008

A relentlessly hectic, poorly structured farce that falls embarrassingly flat.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 1, 2008

The beginning of Steve Martin's non-funny comedies. Ephron should know better as well.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 1, 2008

Martin's comedic talents show no signs of life in this truly abysmal adaptation of a superior French farce...

| Jun 1, 2008

Ephron's timing and sensitivity have deserted her, leaving behind only the sentimentality.

| Feb 9, 2006

A dreadful, dreary would-be dark comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 8, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 30, 2005

Quirky, enjoyable comedy with an unknown Parker Posey on roller skates and Adam Sandler being charming in a real minor part.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 30, 2005

Awful -- even worse when you think about the caliber of talent involved

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Nov 10, 2004

Terrible comedy with a few amusing moments. Not dark enough on one end, not silly enough on the other.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 13, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 23, 2003

A title song incorporating the names of nut varieties is only one of the film's desperate ploys.

Full Review | May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 12, 2003

Odd, oddly likable little comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2002

So many nuts, so few laughs

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 17, 2002

Horrible...horrible...horrible!

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Aug 19, 2002