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75A late-summer delight, a sleek, handsomely made bauble buoyed by a cast much stronger than the flimsy material deserves.
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75Berman and Pulcini, who turned Harvey Pekar's graphic memoir into the visually inventive, Oscar-nominated "American Splendor," dress this film as an anthropological field diary and add several fabulous touches.
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75The film belongs to Linney, whose caustic putdowns and status-seeking veneer barely hides her genuine hurt over her husband's philandering and her distant relationship to her own child. No doubt her diaries would be more compelling than the nanny's.
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70Something of an odd-duck movie. It is not a broad comedy or a wildly romantic one, either. Nor is it Edith Wharton lite. But it does partake of all those modes in intelligently observant ways.
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Although Johansson has a knack for nailing most roles, the angry yet fun-loving nanny doesn't quite work for her.
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63The movie itself is sort of bland and obvious and comfortable.
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63Weak dramatically, and that limits its overall effectiveness.
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63There's a good movie buried inside The Nanny Diaries, and a good cast trying hard to dig it out. Too bad they don't get much help.
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63Johansson, hair dyed brown to make her seem less glamorous, spices up this bland role.
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60Johansson is no Anne Hathaway in this pleasant but forgettable comedy.
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50The comedy has several inspired moments and a genuine flair for the satiric, but overall the film leaves you cold.
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50They should've thrown everything away except the title and the outline. That's what the "Devil Wears Prada" creative team did, and that film turned out a lot richer than this one.
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50Despite some clever early fantasy scenes, Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's adaptation of best seller The Nanny Diaries won't make Bridget Jones give up her writing.
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50Satire should be knife-sharp and whip-smart, and The Nanny Diaries never is.
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50The very rich are different from you and me. And much worse. That's basically the message of the disappointingly banal Nanny Diaries, a film that is even more lightweight and clichéd than the fluff that was the best-selling book.
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50The movie's banal fantasies badly chafe any anthropological consideration of what a girl should do with her career. This isn't life. It's Lifetime.
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50Reading this book and watching this movie, as with "The Devil Wears Prada" a year earlier, I'm convinced that chick-lit books are formula - and chick-lit movies are baby formula.
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50An adamantly unterrible picture, a reasonably enjoyable diversion.
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Like the book, the Nanny Diaries movie never finds a dramatic center.
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50The social bite of the popular novel fades into a generic chick flick.
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50Because The Nanny Diaries is essentially a two-character story whose supporting players are wooden props, it would help if the actors playing the two were evenly matched. But Ms. Johansson's Annie, who narrates the movie in a glum, plodding voice, is a leaden screen presence, devoid of charm and humor.
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50Watching the movie is a nonexperience--like the Upper East Side apartment where most of the action takes place, it's lavishly appointed but joyless.
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50Rarely rises above standard sitcom fare.
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50Linney -- this has happened too much to her -- is once again the best thing in a movie that at most achieves a certain mediocrity.
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50The characters are instantly reversible--the bratty kid turns out to be a sweetie pie, the mother just needs to be told off. Only Giamatti, as the cliched businessman husband, is irredeemable.
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50Awash in spurious sentimentality and sniping.
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42For a light comedy, The Nanny Diaries turns out to have an off-putting theme. It glorifies the romance of slumming.
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40As you watch the nannies mistreated and the children left to cry themselves to sleep, the only surprise is that there are no surprises. It's zombie-land.
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40The material has been turned into a trivially narcissistic product for teen-age girls who want to feel indignant about wrongs they are unlikely to suffer.
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38The supporting players do a serviceable job in their roles, but no amount of Oscar-nominee nuance from Giamatti or Linney can salvage what amounts to a candy-striped trifle for post-collegiate slacker existentialists.
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30An awful lot of good talent has been squandered in this by-the-numbers film.
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So tightly constructed of clichés, stereotypes and chick-lit tropes that it's inert; no fresh air can blow in.
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25There's something painful about watching Scarlett Johansson, who looks as if she never had an indecisive moment in her life, struggle to seem ineffectual.
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12A comedic sinkhole, a dramatic tundra.
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RoshanK.1Extremely boring and tedious with cliche characters.
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