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Ben Mankiewicz, At the Movies: You know precisely where it's headed and how it will get there halfway into Act One. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: My Life in Ruins will neither ruin nor change nor significantly impact your life. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: With stale 1970s-style sitcom humor, My Life in Ruins has none of the homey authenticity of My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Read more
Cliff Doerksen, Chicago Reader: Some lame gay-baiting adds ugliness to the wretched proceedings. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: A romantic comedy that bathes in cliches before rinsing off with sentimentality and spritzing itself with lame jokes. The result is, alas, a bit whiffy. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: A quasi-sequel to My Big Fat Greek Wedding that shamelessly recycles the sitcom-and-schmaltz formula of Vardalos' breakthrough hit. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The folks responsible for My Big Fat Greek Wedding have made My Life in Ruins, a second cute, shoddy-looking movie. Read more
Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times: Defiantly square and focus-group engineered to appeal to those harboring a soft spot for "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," the Nia Vardalos vehicle My Life in Ruins doesn't do Greece or its star many favors. Read more
Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle: Half the time I wanted everyone to shut up so I could hear the tour guide lecture on the Temple of Hephaestus, or wherever. Then I wanted them to shut up so I could sleep. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: As a laughing-through-tears jokester tourist, Richard Dreyfuss provides the only moments of real acting, as opposed to overacting, mugging, and scenery chomping. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: For those craving a baklava-sweet snack, here's your rush of the familiar. It's the rest of us who must worry about a spike in our blood sugar. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Fans of fluff comedies filled with soft smiles and knowing glances will likely welcome the return of Nia Vardalos in My Life in Ruins. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: My Life in Ruins is a middle-aged Hallmark chick flick that makes you wish you were on a Greek vacation (and not, in fact, watching the movie). Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: Vardalos huffs that the culture that made her a millionaire is made of slackers, molesters and thieves. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: It's a movie that gets better as it chugs along, depending on your patience level. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: If only there was something -- anything -- else about this broad, clunky comedy to keep its name from being an oh-so-obvious punchline. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Notably thinner, less awkward and a lot less charming, Vardalos is back with My Life in Ruins, a desperate, crass and probably futile attempt at replicating the earlier movie's fluke success. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Vardalos will never go broke playing it Greek and playing it safe for her fans. But that's no way for an actress to find her kefi. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Through it all, Vardalos is a trouper, with a distinctive screen presence and delayed-reaction timing. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Rarely has a film centered on a character so superficial and unconvincing, played with such unrelenting sameness. I didn't hate it so much as feel sorry for it. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: My Life in Ruins comes close to being a Greek tragedy, but the actors never let the film die. Read more
Kate Taylor, Globe and Mail: This paint-by-numbers romantic comedy is chock-a-block with jokey stereotypes -- Americans are obnoxious, Canadians polite, and the Greeks just dance -- yet lacking in any real drama. Read more
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: The simple charms of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the 2002 small movie that thrust Vardalos into the limelight, are nowhere to be found in this formulaic, weak chuckler. Read more
Nina Caplan, Time Out: Hollywood doesn't know what to do with difference, any more than it does with ruins. It's about time Vardalos, or someone, gave the suits a guided tour. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: My Life in Ruins plays out more like a thuddingly bad, been-there, seen-that sitcom. Even the sight of breathtaking ancient monuments don't keep it from crumbling. Read more
Lael Loewenstein, Variety: It's not that this premise is so altogether improbable -- what tourist hasn't bonded with strangers while sharing close quarters in a foreign land? -- but that it feels tired from the start. Read more
Scott Foundas, Village Voice: Substitute "career" for "life" in the title of this stillborn travelogue comedy, and you'll have a succinct verdict on My Big Fat Greek Wedding writer/star Nia Vardalos. Read more
Jan Stuart, Washington Post: In fashioning a comeback for Vardalos, writer Mike Reiss has cribbed much from her Greek Wedding playbook. Read more