The result is a worthy woman's film and Jolie's best showcase to date.

Manages to squeeze by on Angelina Jolie's surprising flair for self-deprecating comedy.

It's dispiriting to see Jolie wasting herself (and a good supporting cast) on a story that requires little more than an average pretty actress who can wear clothes well and laugh and cry on cue.

It's cheerful nonsense from blithe beginning to obvious end.

Affable, but, as something with more ambition, it disappoints. Herek has once again found the feel-good path to mediocrity.

Amiably glossy if naggingly old-fashioned.

Life at least deserves a nod for supplying the mostly dramatic actress with her first starring comedic role.

If the heroine really had seven days left, she wouldn't waste it watching stuff like this.

Pseudo-profound fluff.

This is an excellent movie for watching Jolie, one of the more entertaining sidelines in recent Hollywood movie going. There are two firsts for her here: Angelina does blonde and, more importantly, Angelina does comedy.

Jolie hogs the spotlight as usual, leaving romantic interest Ed Burns struggling to register and only Shaloub -- fetid, dirty, soulful -- with his dignity intact.

A banal message movie.

Dimly entertaining, the sort of thing that doesn't insult you so much that you feel compelled to flee the theater, but it's too inert to be anything close to charming or compelling.

A deeply metaphysical film by contempo Hollywood standards, this middlebrow trifle may engage the emotions of a certain tier of young professional women.