The Nanny Diaries Reviews


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The Nanny Diaries Reviews (Good)

    • "[I]n the end The Nanny Diaries is an entertaining study of how class warfare — honest working girl vs. the arrivistes — works out in a society that likes to pretend that such warfare is a thing of the past. It isn't, of course, and the movie is tender enough, tough enough and wise enough finally to broker a satisfying truce between the combatants."
    • "Profundity, then, is not the movie's strong suit. But for all its pop-song philosophizing, this adaptation of the novel by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus is still a late-summer delight, a sleek, handsomely made bauble buoyed by a cast much stronger than the flimsy material deserves."
    • "Without her presence as a snooty Upper East Side mother in The Nanny Diaries—a crisp, though conventional, adaptation of Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus' popular novel—the film might have been little more than a collection of broad comic stereotypes and family-values sentiment. But with her, the film receives some badly needed dimension to its thin satire, not to mention the lion's share of the laughs."
    • "[T]his film's kicks come from watching the foibles and quirks of the uber-rich through an outsider's eyes, but the genuine sadness on display in The Nanny Diaries saves this film from being just a Prada knock-off."
    • "Berman and Pulcini are clever enough filmmakers to keep things visually lively and to make sure the script bounces along with energy and pace."

The Nanny Diaries Reviews (Bad)

    • "You could make sushi with the women in The Nanny Diaries, though. The 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."
    • "The most disappointing aspect about The Nanny Diaries, however, is that it was written and directed by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini as the follow-up to their wonderful 2003 debut American Splendor, a film as brave, quirky, funny, wonderfully acted and resoundingly human as you could possibly want."
    • "There's nothing to criticize in this performance, but there's nothing to get excited about, either. It's solid though uninspired work."
    • "Despite 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."
    • "Somehow the movie doesn't send you out on the high you expect...You want to see Armageddon visited upon the transgressor. That's the transaction that must close the film. But the film doesn't quite deliver...It ends not with a bang but with a mutter."