“A dirty diaper bag of sex jokes, sentimental mush, cartoonish claptrap and weary parent-to-be clichés.” Neil Pond, American Profile
“It is the birth control of movies. What To Expect When You’re Expecting could scare you away from having a baby for life.” Willie Waffle, WaffleMovies.com
“Has the smug tone of judgmental, know-it-all parents, yet its reliance on tired plot devices suggests that the filmmakers may have actually skipped out on their reading.” Josh Bell, Las Vegas Weekly
“What audiences should expect is a tone-deaf, superficial, charmless ensemble rom-com, focused on five attractive, but uninteresting, couples.” Claudia Puig, USA Today
“Babies are cute and expectant parents often aren’t. That kind of sums up What to Expect When You’re Expecting.” Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
“Cute couple Kendrick and Crawford are completely lost at sea. But the guys in the Dudes Group have the worst of it—they are a whiny, unappealing bunch through and through.” Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times
“Exactly what you’d expect. And that’s not a good thing.” Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com

“You should avoid this movie as if it were radioactive.” Scott Nash, Three Movie Buffs

“A run-of-the-mill low-budget flick focused on killing off stupid, pretty young things slowly enough to fill out 90 minutes.” Alison Willmore, Movieline

“This is a standard-issue slasher movie without much slashing, substituting the Chernobyl-workers’ ghost town of Pripyat for the likes of Friday the 13th’s Camp Crystal Lake.” Ian Buckwalter, The Atlantic

“It takes a good hour for one of the leads to suggest that ‘we need to be smart about this.’ You want to be smart? Don’t take an unauthorized tour of a nuclear disaster site.” William Goss, Film.com

“You’d never wish tragedy upon anyone, but at some point the characters become harder and harder to feel sorry for. Get a clue, people.” Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic

“The director who stitched The Raven together has no idea how to frame or compose a scene, let alone ‘grow’ a film organically.” Kathleen Murphy, MSN Movies

“Poe, not Conan Doyle? Cusack, not Downey? No wit, no fun, no engaging derring do? Beg pardon, Watson, we’ve stumbled into some foggy crime detective clone, 40 years too early. Best to move along.” Kimberly Gadette, Doddle

“It’s neither grand nor grisly enough to seriously satisfy Poe-ish cravings for murder, mystery and literary allusions.” Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times

“They want it to be Seven meets Sherlock Holmes and you can tell Cusack is into it. Unfortunately the plot is ridiculous and the murder-mystery is boring. Jeff Bayer, The Scorecard Review

“Quoth the Raven - nevermore. it seems like good advice because nothing in this movie is worth ravin’ about.” Gary Wolcott, Tri-City Herald

“As long as Efron’s shirt comes off, he could play an accountant and no one in the target audience would care.” Tal Rosenberg, Chicago Reader

“The Lucky One doesn’t have a genuine emotion in it or a plausible reason to endure it. It’s strictly for the sisters of the cult of Sparks and the men who love them.” Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

“The trouble with destiny is that it leaves no room for surprise; ditto this safe midseason romancer.” Peter Debruge, Variety

“Wondering who, exactly, is The Lucky One? If, due to any combination of will, intuition or sheer ignorance, you circumvent this film then you, dear reader, are indeed the lucky one. And I am inordinately jealous.” Kimberly Gadette, Doddle

“I suppose that’s what all the lovemaking and partial nudity is for in these films, to distract from the obvious flaws in the writing.” Brian Orndorf, BrianOrndorf.com

“The Vow is a painfully humourless affair that I expect to have forgotten by the time this review appears.” Philip French, Observer [UK]

“The film’s Nicholas Sparks-style sweet nothings extract as many eye rolls as ‘aws’; it’s a box of cheap chocolates for someone you just met and you’re not really sure you care for.” Monica Castillo, Boston Phoenix

“McAdams is a beautiful blank. There’s not a single moment when her character feels real, or as if she genuinely has anything at stake.” Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

“Most of the time it plays like the movie adaptation of a Land’s End catalogue, making monogamy seem essential by associating it with high-end interior design.” Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader