Jersey Girl (2004) Critic Reviews
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Based upon 15 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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The film oozes sentimentality, soap-opera bathos and clumsy cribbings from the Frank Capra book of small-town values. Those are its good points. Read the full review
A lackluster melodrama with only a few inspired moments. Read the full review
A bland slab of sentimental hokum that proves even the most smart-alecky of indie auteurs can turn warm and fuzzy on occasion.Read the full review
The nadir of the movie -- or cheesy zenith -- is Ollie's sodden soliloquy, delivered in the presence of his baby, in which he laments the loss of her mother and his wife. All that's missing are the strains of Ravel's "Pavane For a Dead Princess." Read the full review
Though Smith loses many of his past efforts' familiar trappings--Jay and Silent Bob are now confined to the production-company logo--Jersey Girl plays to Smith's strengths like no film since "Clerks." 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
Smith stumbles setting up dramatic confrontations and strains credibility a time or two with implausible moments.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
The filmmaker drowns his trademark edgy stew of smutty humor, stiff acting and dime-store insight into human nature with a gravy of glutinous bathos, making for a singularly unpalatable dish.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
