What is this film about? Nothing. It's senseless and horrid, patronising to all women everywhere, and extremely tiresome.

| Aug 23, 2018

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: C- | Sep 7, 2011

Here's hoping that the very talented [Shari] Springer [Berman] and [Robert] Pulcini get a crack at a script that's worthy of their talents for their third time at bat.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 1, 2008

If you have a cast which includes Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney and Paul Giamatti, you ought to give them something better to work with than this botched adaptation.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 12, 2007

Amazing cast, abysmal movie.

| Oct 12, 2007

But satire and emotional drama do not mix. When we giggle at the selfish enormities of this family's lifestyle, we cannot be expected to weep for Johansson's lonely hearted childminder.

| Oct 12, 2007

If Sofia Coppola were given a lobotomy and asked to remake The Devil Wears Prada for the au pair profession, she might have produced something like this horribly pleased-with-itself childcare comedy.

| Oct 12, 2007

Batten down the hatches; here's a film that really blows.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 12, 2007

The wholesome child-friendly lessons made me feel queasy.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 12, 2007

Like The Devil Wears Prada, this film's kicks come from watching the foibles and quirks of the uber-rich through an outsider's eyes, but the genuine sadness on display in the Nanny Diaries saves this film from being just a Prada knock-off.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2007

Johansson is no Anne Hathaway in this pleasant but forgettable comedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 10, 2007

The conclusion is desperately trite, but Linney's performance helps this comedy - based on a novel by two nannies, take note - feel like a credible peek behind very expensive curtains.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Oct 10, 2007

The Nanny Diaries, despite many bright moments and a superior level of craftsmanship, is now a flabby urban fairy tale.

| Aug 27, 2007

With [Linney], the film receives some badly needed dimension to its thin satire, not to mention the lion's share of the laughs.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Aug 25, 2007

Whatever its faults are, The Nanny Diaries is hardly the disaster that the gossipmongers -- including, perhaps, even the studio that made it -- want us to believe.

Full Review | Aug 24, 2007

A clever, satiric novel turned dull-witted movie.

| Aug 24, 2007

A film that is even more lightweight and clichéd than the fluff that was the best-selling book.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 24, 2007

What puts The Nanny Diaries a cut above the run-of-the-mill romantic comedy is the acting.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 24, 2007