In a strange way, it's both the most mainstream and the most personal movie Smith has made to date.

Jersey Girl is like that new Liz Phair album ... it sometimes sounds unmistakably like Kevin Smith but you never quite believe he could be so platitudinous and predictable.

Even as the critic in me raged against the clichés, I found a big old lump in my throat and blinked back a few tears.

Kevin Smith inserts enough of his special charm to make "Jersey Girl" a winner.

This is not the hard, cutting-edge Kevin. This is the soft and runny Kevin, trying (a little too hard) to work within the system. It's lame, man.

'Quizá sea reciclado de otras tantas cintas por el estilo, pero el toque de Smith aparece para hacer de este ejercicio un recomendable filme sobre el acto de maduración.'

It’s every bit as enjoyable as [Smith's] previous attempts, but much more mature. Kevin Smith has grown up, and he’s grown-up well.

[on Raquel Castro] If her career is half as successful as those of similarly talented kids Christina Ricci and Kirsten Dunst, she'll be quite the sensation.

Kevin Smith's safest movie to date, but italso his most adult, an attempt to move beyond the comic book fantasy world in which he has lived for so long and try something new.

It’s a nicely acted, competently made ‘dramatic comedy’ that might disappoint rabid Smith fans but is still a cut above the average Hollywood sugar-fest. Worth seeing.