My Life in Ruins Critic Reviews
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Based upon 12 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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A cliché movie about love, orneriness and several maddening tourists.Read the full review
Cloying and dated movie.Read the full review
Ruins is sometimes as sunny as its locations but as familiar and predictable as a Greek diner.Read the full review
Doesn't skimp on the life lessons or instant transformations. But the movie primarily exists to give amiable Everywoman Vardalos the chance to regain her kefi.Read the full review
Words cannot express how weary I am of watching lifeless, hollow movies like My Life in Ruins - generic romantic comedies that have no clue when it comes to either "romance" or "comedy."Read the full review
Fittingly, My Life in Ruins goes downhill after its title.Read the full review
Feels like warmed-over souvlaki.Read the full review
Vardalos has brought back the tourist comedy and delivered the dumbed-down "If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium" no one wanted.Read the full review
The film is so brazen about its pandering, crumple-hearted silliness that it had me rooting for Vardalos to land her big fat Greek stud-muffin.Read the full review
Rarely has a film centered on a character so superficial and unconvincing, played with such unrelenting sameness. I didn't hate it so much as feel sorry for it.Read the full review
