Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
3 |
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Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
4 |
The film may be bad--and mad--but it's not predictable. |
E!
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5 |
...here's the gist: Well-to-do desperate housewife (Kimberly Elise) gets the boot from her rotten, cheatin' husband, gets revenge advice from her outrageous family and thanks to God, ultimately learns that forgiveness is the way to go. |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
3 |
...stay clear of this mess. |
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh |
4 |
... the film is never dull. But its mix of wacky high jinks and oh-so-obvious message smack of "Jesus was the bomb"-style proselytizing. |
Reel
Tim Knight |
4 |
...a crudely made hodgepodge of rank clichés that veers between shrill melodrama, glossy soap opera, and broad, sitcom-level comedy. |
Slant Magazine
Jeremiah Kipp |
3 |
...a routine lowbrow comedy... |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
6 |
...a bad movie so over-the-top that at moments it's almost good... |
New York Times
Stephen Holden |
5 |
...so oblivious to genre that it occupies its own special stylistic niche, if you can imagine such a thing as a romantic revenge farce. |
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas |
4 |
Comic relief is often welcome in drama, but these broad caricatures, which draw easy laughter as the minstrel turns they are, destroy the sense of reality that a large and hardworking cast is otherwise striving to create. |
People
Leah Rozen |
5 |
It's easy to see how his mix of humor, amour and old-time religion might have broad appeal, but next time he attempts a stage-to-film transfer, judicious pruning is in order. |
LA Weekly
Erin Aubry Kaplan |
5 |
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Village Voice
Laura Sinagra |
3 |
...a rote melodrama... |
Onion AV Club
Scott Tobias |
3 |
Diary's dramatic and comedic elements are pushed to such extremes that their juxtaposition leads to severe disorientation. |
Maxim
Patrick Richardson |
4 |
Diary isn't a slapstick comedy filled with jokes about farts and erectile dysfunction. (Much to our dismay.) It's really a poignant romantic drama (chick flick alert!) about an Atlanta-based trophy wife... |
Premiere
Kevin Allison |
5 |
As preposterously awkward, naïve and contrived as this movie is, it’s still a curious sort of pleasure to witness... |
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt |
3 |
The movie seesaws between crude comedy and sudsy melodrama, and it's hard to decide which aspect is more ineptly handled. Plenty of mad moviegoers will put this in their diaries as one of the worst pictures in ages. |
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