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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: Feels both forced and erratic, like an old Buick missing on all cylinders. Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: There is a complex heroine in here somewhere, but Barrymore and director Penny Marshall are so intent on making her likable that the movie flounders in cheap pathos. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: What ultimately dooms the film are one-dimensional and searingly bad performances. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Marshall's film, hobbled by a miscalculated and often superficial script by Morgan Upton Ward, is mostly a wasted opportunity. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Chalks up victories for Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn, director Penny Marshall, and almost its entire supporting cast. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: For all its characters' weaknesses, it believes in their essential decency and capacity for love -- and for a good deal of the time it makes us believers, too. Read more
Kevin Maynard, Mr. Showbiz: A funny, poignant adaptation of Beverly D'Onofrio's autobiography, and a chick flick that's refreshingly sap-free. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: You can see how hard it works from top to bottom. But it never quite gets what it wants. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Pick something sunshiny next time, Drew. It's nicer to see you smile. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: The way that the screenwriter, Morgan Upton Ward, has shaped the material, Donofrio seems a bystander in her own life, a passive (if seething and resentful) victim of forces beyond her control. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: It's never more than a random collection of moments that never pull together. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Buried under the miscalculations, the shamelessness, the off-putting and inappropriate broadness are sporadically visible souvenirs of a good project gone bad. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Too much of its reality involves joyless response to circumstantial failure, and instead of being ironic or bittersweet, it's mostly bitter. Read more
Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: Left a lot of the book's plot on the cutting-room floor in the transition from the page to the screen. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Marshall ... regularly downshifts the anger in Riding in Cars to low-gear cute every time the road gets good and tough. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: What with a miscast star, a confused director and a cluttered script, Riding in Cars with Boys is a traffic accident of a movie. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Beverly is supposed to be a bad girl running with the wrong crowd, but most of the time she seems to be right out of a serioso episode of Laverne & Shirley. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: A film with honesty, sincerity and a great big heart. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A film like this is refreshing and startling in the way it cuts loose from formula and shows us confused lives we recognize. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Every scene is coated with Marshall's thumbprints, ultimately connecting into a manhandled, mangled, misshapen whole, its themes written out in thunderously obvious cues. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Neither Barrymore, who's never played a role this ambitious before, nor director Penny Marshall, who peppers the movie with sight gags and sitcom broadness, ever comes to terms with Beverly. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Despite being scrubbed almost spotless, the story still makes its mark. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Marshall has fashioned a well-acted diversion, and she wisely chooses humor over treacle in what could have been an overly sentimental tale. Read more
Jessica Winter, Village Voice: Marshall's halting sob story strains for cry-till-you-laugh dark comedy. Read more