Metacritic reviews

Johansson, hair dyed brown to make her seem less glamorous, spices up this bland role.

The comedy has several inspired moments and a genuine flair for the satiric, but overall the film leaves you cold.

Rarely rises above standard sitcom fare.

Like the book, the Nanny Diaries movie never finds a dramatic center.

They should've thrown everything away except the title and the outline. That's what the "Devil Wears Prada" creative team did, and that film turned out a lot richer than this one.

Awash in spurious sentimentality and sniping.

Linney -- this has happened too much to her -- is once again the best thing in a movie that at most achieves a certain mediocrity.

For a light comedy, The Nanny Diaries turns out to have an off-putting theme. It glorifies the romance of slumming.

As you watch the nannies mistreated and the children left to cry themselves to sleep, the only surprise is that there are no surprises. It’s zombie-land.

An awful lot of good talent has been squandered in this by-the-numbers film.