The "chick flick" Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is also receiving mixed reviews. Starring Ellen Burstyn, Sandra Bullock, Fionnula Flanagan, Ashley Judd, Maggie Smith, and Shirley Knight, the film receives high praise from Rex Reed in the New York Observer, who writes: "A fine cast of powerhouse pros turns a powder-puff script into a series of personal triumphs that are just next-door to unforgettable." Melissa War Aguilar in the Houston Chronicle turns her review into a kind of advice-for-the-lovelorn column: "Should you take the man in your life? Probably not. Unless you want him to take lessons from Connor on how to act when a woman flies off the handle. Take a sister, instead. Or take a box of Kleenex, and you'll make friends with the Ya-Yas sitting next to you." And Phillip Wuntch observes in the Dallas Morning News: "It's a chick-flick resplendent with aging swans and peacocks. But its witty quips will allow most male viewers to enjoy it without apology or guilt." Now, compare those words to these by John Anderson in Newsday: "The makers of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood should offer a free ticket (second prize, of course, two free tickets) to anyone who can locate a genuinely honest moment in their movie. We suspect there is one. We probably just missed it, while searching under our seat for the oxygen tank we thought Warner Bros. would have had the foresight to provide." Then, there's this reaction from Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times: "There is not a character in the movie with a shred of plausibility, not an event that is believable, not a confrontation that is not staged, not a moment that is not false."