Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
positive
3(10%)
mixed
16(53%)
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75
A very curious and very entertaining mix, the Labradoodle of inspirational romantic-comedy-melodramas.
67
A bad movie so over-the-top that at moments it's almost good - or, at least, more arresting than it has any right to be.
63
While the jokes are obvious and the romance formulaic, a good-natured sensibility saves the film from being too hokey. The individual parts may not work, but the sum remains entertaining.
50
An ungainly hodgepodge of vaudeville-style comedy, turgid soap-operatics, and joyful epiphanies of gospel-flavored uplift.
50
Diary rather sloppily blends melodrama and spiritual uplift with crass comedy, sometimes in the same scene.
50
In an awkward split-personality way, it works some of the time.
50
The movie has a soul, and its good-natured charm may well win over the most cynical heart.
50
The stylistic discontinuities and pile-driver excesses can be off-putting for an outsider like me, but for fans this may well be part of the appeal.
50
Harris and particularly Elise give over-the-top performances that bring Diary to the edge of soap opera.
50
This is a movie that falls short only because it insists on grabbing for so much.
