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Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The idea that working moms feel the strain of achieving some balance more than working dads is nothing new. And that's true of most everything in the movie. We've been here and done that, repeatedly, over the past 25 years or more. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: Spiffy-looking, well-intentioned but ultimately witless. Read more
Hayley Kaufman, Boston Globe: Occasionally veers so far into absurdity that it manages to make its central character - capable, smart, working mom Kate Reddy - look like a nitwit. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: I don't know why she does it. Read more
Kathleen Murphy, MSN Movies: I Don't Know How She Does It is a cliche-ridden, misogynistic mess. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: "I Don't Know How She Does It" seems stuck in the past. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Parker reminds you what a dizzy, all-in, high-risk comic actress she can be when she's not too busy showing off the couture. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Why was a string of sitcom problems stretched to 91 minutes? Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Leaves you wondering why nobody involved with this film seems to have ever met an actual working mother. Read more
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: Like Parker's character, I Don't Know How She Does It wants to have it all, and has trouble committing to a course of action. Read more
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: Subtlety is never this movie's strong point; then again, it's nearly impossible to pinpoint what this movie's strengths are. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: "I Don't Know How She Does It" suggests what might have happened to Carrie if she had two kids with Mr. Big to worry about, and less time to obsess over her wardrobe. Read more
Amy Nicholson, Boxoffice Magazine: Empathy rescues it from the brink of disaster porn -- it's so good-hearted and optimistic that stressed-out moms will feel the flick speaks directly to them, which it does. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Reader: It's smart, swanky, and good-looking, but strangely, it's not all that funny. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: "I Don't Know How She Does It" doesn't know how to do what I think it's trying to do. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: 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? Read more
Eric D. Snider, Film.com: Any working mother is bound to see herself in this. Provided she is also a fictional character on a sitcom, that is. Read more
Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter: Fortunately McGrath ultimately moves beyond the shtick and keeps things moving at an agreeable pace, relying on his talented ensemble to capably close the deal. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: For a movie, it's pretty good at that balancing act Kate works so hard to achieve. Read more
Ella Taylor, NPR: In the chick-flick world, hell is other women, and here specifically it's the stay-at-home wife and mother. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: A lot more watchable than its awful trailer indicates. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: A meager one-joke comedy peopled by stereotypes. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: In describing the conflict of a woman who has it all without enjoying it all, Pearson's book had teeth. McKenna's screenplay has only a smile. But is it ever good to laugh. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: For roughly 70 minutes, I Don't Know How She Does It comes across as smart and witty, then it throws all that away in its quest for the perfect conclusion. "Perfect" in this case is synonymous with "fairy tale." Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: 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. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The result is like that bake sale pie: All the ingredients are there, but it's really sloppy and not quite fresh. Read more
Jody Mitori, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Like its main character, "I Don't Know How She Does It" tries to do everything, but it doesn't quite succeed. Read more
Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: 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. Read more
Leah Rozen, TheWrap: 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. Read more
Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: It's not that I Don't Know How She Does It tells actual lies about working motherhood - many of its observations and jokes are on point - it's just that it omits the edge, the desperation of a woman on the verge. Read more
Bruce Demara, Toronto Star: We know how she does it. The better question is: Why should we care? Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Though it aims to be a sharply humorous look at the mommy wars, I Don't Know How She Does It has nothing remotely new or comical in its arsenal. Read more
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: What I don't know: why these movies keep getting made. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: The film is so bad it's hard to imagine anything saving it. Read more