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(1 - 33) of 33 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."   TheMovieBoy.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 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 2/10 "I spent the bulk of the running time thinking of creative ways for the characters to be murdered."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 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 "If these are the only kinds of roles we can conceive for actresses who have grown into their faces, as Keaton has, it's no wonder so many younger performers are seeking the knife."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 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 1.5/4 "Playing a ditzy control freak of a mother with serious boundary issues, Keaton comes across as such a screeching, flailing flibbertigibbet that you want to give her costars tranquilizer dart guns."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight 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 - 33) of 33 OFCS Rating: 3% Rotten Page   1