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Jersey Girl
Miramax Films
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 on appeal for language and sexual content including frank dialogue
Starring
Ben Affleck,
Liv Tyler,
George Carlin,
Raquel Castro,
Jason Biggs,
Jennifer Lopez,
Stephen Root,
and
Mike Starr
An honest, heartfelt and often amusing story about the man who wanted it all but got all that he needed. (Miramax Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Drama
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Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Kevin Smith
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Kevin Smith
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 7, 2004
Video: September 7, 2004
Theatrical: March 26, 2004
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| RUNNING TIME: |
103 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
88
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Eloquent and unapologetically cute.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.

80
Film Threat
Don R. Lewis
Has more heart up on the screen than any film Ive seen in recent years. I mean, were talking sappy, sweet, heart wrenching sentimentality.

75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
It's an unabashedly square picture, and proud of it. It is also a warm, funny, earnest movie, a stand-up exercise in a kind of Hollywood melodrama -- the feel-good weepie -- that has long been out of fashion.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
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."

67
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
The minute the movie flashes forward seven years and Castro takes over as Affleck's grade-school-age daughter: The whole enterprise suddenly becomes rather charming.

63
USA Today
Mike Clark
Smith is looking more and more like a developing major talent, so it could be years until we get a handle on this movie's legacy. The film is not only defensible as a cute one-shot, but also as a positive sign for the future.

63
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
The biggest problem with Jersey Girl may not be exactly its fault; what is up there on the screen is cute and funny and heartfelt, even if it is unflinchingly formulaic.

63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Jersey Girl is an oddity, hard to dislike but impossible to buy.

60
TV Guide
Angel Cohn
Overall it's an enjoyable cruise down the Garden State Parkway, and Affleck and Castro are charming companions.

60
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
As an ode to fatherhood, Jersey Girl is sweet without being particularly deep; but Smith is really onto something when he nudges against the ways in which the geographic landscape of a life merges with the genetic one.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
For all of its good-natured guff, Jersey Girl chooses uncomplicated sentiment over the messy complications of real life.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
In Jersey Girl, Kevin Smith wears his heart on his sleeve - and on his pants, socks, boxers and backward-facing baseball cap.

50
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Affleck is modest and engaging, which keeps the movie out of "Gigli" territory. But it's close.

50
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
A lackluster melodrama with only a few inspired moments.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Smith stumbles setting up dramatic confrontations and strains credibility a time or two with implausible moments.

50
Variety
Joe Leydon
A bland slab of sentimental hokum that proves even the most smart-alecky of indie auteurs can turn warm and fuzzy on occasion.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
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.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Mainly bad, and a shockingly bland departure from a hitherto spunky guy.

50
Premiere
Aaron Hillis
Jersey Girl may have come from his soul, but it contradicts the charm of a Kevin Smith movie.

50
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
Startlingly immature.

50
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Smith has called friend Ben Affleck his muse, and this picture is just as bland and superficially pleasant as its star.

50
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Combines absurd male fantasy and grating chick-flick cliche.

42
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
For some four fifths of its length, Jersey Girl is as square as a turnpike-diner place mat.

40
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
Smith used to make movies to make fun of movies like Jersey Girl; now he's just another guy working the assembly line, which won't make you a sell-out if no one buys it.

40
Empire
Olly Richards
Sweet, formulaic entertainment, but occasionally clunky.

38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
It might have been a marketing nightmare, but if Lopez and Tyler had switched roles, it would have been a better movie.

30
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
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.

30
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Despite that frisson of naughtiness and the occasional smile, Jersey Girl is overall too bland to hold our interest.

30
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
Both stars are atrocious -- but the real blame for this cosmically self-indulgent disaster lies with Kevin Smith, who directs like a proud father who can't stop showing you pictures of his kids. And here's the thing: The brats are ugly.

30
Village Voice
Ed Park
Aware of its awfulness.

30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The film oozes sentimentality, soap-opera bathos and clumsy cribbings from the Frank Capra book of small-town values. Those are its good points.

30
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
If Affleck stumbles, Smith's script does nothing to catch his fall. Surprisingly, Smith's truest talent that of writing is Jersey Girl's weakest link.

20
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
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.

10
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
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."

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