3 stars out of 5 -- "[S]exy, touching and astringently funny....Diaz and Collette are sensational, and MacLaine -- underplaying to marvelous effect -- does her best acting in years."
Rolling Stone

"[A] richly textured story. Ms. Collette is so very good and goes so very deep inside her character -- bringing us right alongside her -- that she becomes the de facto center of the film as well as the beneficiary of our greatest emotional investment."
New York Times

"[T]his is the most enjoyable film of its type in recent memory....The movie takes off in some pleasurable directions -- some comic, some touching."
USA Today

"The plot math is neat, the cultural references are easy, the jokes are sitcom-honed..."
Entertainment Weekly

"The film improves whenever MacLaine is on screen; she brings a wry, world-weary dignity to the role of Ella."
Sight and Sound

Included in Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten Films Of The Year -- "Curtis Hanson directs this charmed confection with a romance and pain, a frivolity and grace, that will leave you laughing through tears."
Entertainment Weekly

"The diverse talents of Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine all shine under the capable direction of Curtis Hanson..."
Movieline's Hollywood Life