Peter Preston 

It’s not how she does it, but where that matters

Mail and Telegraph film critics curiously divided over Sarah Jessica Parker film
  
  

Sarah Jessica Parker in I Don't Know How She Does It
Sarah Jessica Parker in I Don't Know How She Does It. Photograph: Weinstein/Everett/Rex Features Photograph: Weinstein/Everett/Rex Features

Award four stars to I Don't Know How She Does It, because Daily Telegraph film critic Sarah Crompton finds Sarah Jessica Parker's latest performance an "understated joy" in a bestseller-based movie that shows how "women can adore their job and their family".

Or award it one shrinking star in the Daily Mail, because Chris Tookey deems its "having it all" plot not of its time. Has a "book ever dated more quickly?", he wonders.

Who wrote this creaky, derided tome? "Former Mail columnist Allison Pearson", Tookey helpfully reminds us, before she went back to the Telegraph. I don't know how they do it, either. But there's a slip showing somewhere.

 

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