Jersey Girl (2004) Critic Reviews

Eloquent and unapologetically cute.Read the full review

Liv Tyler is a very particular talent who has sometimes been misused by directors more in love with her beauty than with her appropriateness for their story. Here she is perfectly cast.Read the full review

For some four fifths of its length, Jersey Girl is as square as a turnpike-diner place mat.Read the full review

Despite that frisson of naughtiness and the occasional smile, Jersey Girl is overall too bland to hold our interest.Read the full review

A lackluster melodrama with only a few inspired moments. Read the full review

Affleck is modest and engaging, which keeps the movie out of "Gigli" territory. But it's close. Read the full review

The film's overall construction is faulty. Its dramatic situations ring consistently false, and the story is phony as anything off the Hollywood assembly line. And yet, it's sincere phony.Read the full review

Smith stumbles setting up dramatic confrontations and strains credibility a time or two with implausible moments.Read the full review

Sadly, Mr. Smith has made a movie so false and blatantly icky that it's the film equivalent of making goo-goo noises and chucking a baby under the chin for 103 minutes. At the end, all you're left with is drool and a mountain of baby powder. Read the full review