Engaging if underwhelming.

Shows very little respect for women and makes a youthful male soft-core porn writer into a supposed seer dispensing wisdom.

The acting is good, which really is no reason alone to spend good money on seeing this throwaway picture in the theater.

I can’t recall the last [film] that filled me with the kind of utter loathing and contempt that this one did.

There's no denying that "In the Land of Women" has its moments of endearment, but Jon Kasdan's weepy coming-of-age dramedy lacks emotional authenticity.

While it catches something of the romantic zeitgeist of this time, much in the way The Big Chill did in the early '80s, I suspect this won't have the same stamina.

The "young man's post-traumatic discovery of life's value through quirky people tale" is an obscure genre that's somehow attracted Zach Braff, Cameron Crowe and Jon Kasdan.

Apart from borrowing from Garden State and In Her Shoes, there's a sense of Big Chill Lite -- made by someone with a much lamer record collection.

Only slightly less clumsy overall than Against the Ropes, but at least it plays to co-star Meg Ryan’s ability to suggest volumes of repressed emotion.

The peculiarly male self-centeredness seen here is repulsive and astonishing. Meg Ryan's breast cancer, the grandmother's dementia, the teenage girl's angst: All these traumas primarily exist to help a young man find himself.