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(1 - 31) of 31 OFCS Rating: 3% Rotten Page   1   "Diane Keaton has delivered many terrific film performances, but her over-the-top work in 'Because I Said So' isn't one of them."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker F- "Apparently retrieved from a dumpster, labeled "Rejected Sitcom Brain Farts," at the Universal back lot and Scotch-taped back together, the screenplay can only be described as a crime against moviegoers worldwide."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 2/10 "It's a perfect title for a film so utterly lacking in worthwhile qualities that there is no logical reason to actually see it."   Freeze Dried Movies   Brian Juergens D- "Because ends up a joyless, patronizing, and obnoxious 100-minute-long commercial for matricide."   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf 1.5/5 "scattershot and misbegotten by even normal romantic comedy standards"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin D "In this unwatchable romantic comedy from director Michael Lehmann Diane Keaton plays Daphne Wilder, an inept mother of three pretty but not-believable-as-siblings daughters."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 1/10 "In lieu of plot, it’s cluttered with bad driving scenes, dog reaction shots, falling-splat-with-cakes scenes, and watching old movies scenes."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1.5/4 "...Keaton [delivers] a painfully over-the-top, tic-ridden performance..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 1/4 "The only good use for Because I Said So would be as a step-by-step handbook on how not to make a romantic comedy."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman .5/4 "Welcome to the rom-com in the age of Must Love Dogs."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez D "The film contains no laughs, no purpose, and no entertainment."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider "Like steel pins poking through the eyes"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce 1.5/4 "Relentlessly exhaustive, simple-minded, unoriginal and inconsequential Because I Said So seems very disconnected in its bid for cockeyed conviction."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng F "It's appropriate that much of Because I Said So is set in a bakery, because even in a sea of awful chick flicks, this appalling confection takes the cake."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/5 "An unfunny comedy about an interfering mother and a dysfunctional family that demeans women big time."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 3/4 "The screenplay for Because I Said So may be short on invention but it is large on heart."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/5 "A desperate comedy whose frequently acute insights into tense, but loving mother-daughter relationships is constantly hamstrung by ill-advised forays into physical humor and too much reliance on Diane Keaton's mania."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 1/4 "I don't think anyone actually wrote Because I Said So; I think that some Hollywood artificial intelligence think-tank instead fed DVD box sets of The Gilmore Girls and Sex and the City into a computer, along with Pottery Barn catalogs for roughage. ..."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 4/10 "Click here to read review"   Kinoblog.com   Jaroslav Vishtaljuk 1/5 "this film is like Kevin Federline at the guidance counselor's office - it just has no direction"   Film Threat   Kevin Carr 0.5/4 "Innocuous, self-centered and disconnected from any parcel of meaningful human experience."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest D "Even the film's costume designer makes Keaton look ridiculous which is no mean feat given that she's clothed in the actress's own style."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Laura Clifford C- "Some of the nonsense could be overlooked as part of rom com conventions, but Because I Said So's shrillness makes for an exhausting experience."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "[A] trite, manipulative, excruciating nightmare of female pyschosis and idiocy presented as feminine adorableness."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson D "Are there not... Two points in the adventure of the diver: This movie manages to be offensive and yet dull and predictable, as phony as a Kate Spade sidewalk knock-off bag and as unoriginal as the ready-for VH1 soundtrack."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 1/5 "A movie that’s so bad, it's actually painful to sit through."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 1.5/5 "There's more than enough material here to make an enjoyable drama about a mother and her adult daughters. But the writers and director fail on virtually every front."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline D "Because I Said So's biggest sin is that it treats its characters like idiots, with Keaton's Daphne leading the charge. [She's] a woman who apparently makes her living by baking the occasional cake, most of which land on the sidewalk or in her face."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 3/10 "Believe me when I tell you not to see this unless you're subpoenaed. It's that bad!"   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger 0/4 "It's hard to find a more stalwart movie monster in the last ten years than Keaton, who's gone from a charming neurotic to a cobwebbed, cell-phone-wielding vagina dentata."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 31) of 31 OFCS Rating: 3% Rotten Page   1