The main problem is that this Boston-set flick quite unselfconsciously presents itself as if it were a pop-culture first to express ideas about the working-mom balancing act.
– Jennie Punter,
Globe and Mail,
16 Sep 2011
rotten:
I Don't Know How She Does It purports to be about the difficult choices of modern motherhood, but it's too prim and cautious a movie to dip a pedicured toe into the murky waters of real choice.
– Dana Stevens,
Slate,
16 Sep 2011
rotten:
How nice it would have been had McKenna penned a couple of those audience-addressing interludes for Richard or Jack. What would these modern, succesful men tell us of themselves?
– Lisa Kennedy,
Denver Post,
16 Sep 2011
rotten:
In the chick-flick world, hell is other women, and here specifically it's the stay-at-home wife and mother.
– Ella Taylor,
NPR,
16 Sep 2011
rotten:
Oh, look, it's rich people in beautifully appointed houses and they're worried that the nanny might not arrive on time for them to make important morning meetings at work. Boo-hoo.