Naomi Watts embraces family time after cutting Diana reviews as she cycles around New York with Liev Schreiber and their boys

By Jennifer Pearson

PUBLISHED: 22:27 EST, 8 September 2013 | UPDATED: 05:25 EST, 9 September 2013

She's been on a pressured schedule of promotional work for her film Diana.

Naomi Watts was restored back to her other life, that of mother and loving partner, as she enjoyed a bicycle ride in New York City with Liev Schreiber and their two sons.

The 44-year-old actress was relaxed and just enjoying the ride on Sunday as she pedaled after Liev, 45, who was cycling with Sammy, four, in front and Sasha, six, positioned in the back of him.

On the family trail: Naomi Watts was back to being mom and loving partner as she enjoyed a bike ride around New York City with Liev Schreiber and their two sons on Sunday

Although Naomi had a child's seat attached to her bike, she got to breeze around their neighbourhood relatively fancy free.

She wore her short blonde hair in a casual ponytail and was clad in a long-sleeved beige top, blue shorts and sandals.

Ever practical, the five-foot-five star wore her turquoise bag slung across her chest Girl Scout-style.

New York state of mind: The couple love living in the Big Apple where they have an apartment but stay in Los Angeles when Liev is filming his Showtime series Ray Donovan

Last week was a different experience as Naomi attended both the London and Paris premieres for the bio-pic that focuses on the romance between Diana, The Princess Of Wales and Dr Hasnat Khan, played by Naveen Andrews.

In Paris on Friday, Naomi attended the glittering premiere wearing a billowing lacy mini dress with sparkly heels before changing into a vampy, black and sheer number with pointy black pumps for the after-party.

The versatile actress was a visual stunner as she hit up Thursday's London screening for the movie, which has gotten mostly thumbs down reviews from the critics.

Frilly: Naomi was swathed in lace, ruffles and frills as she attended the Paris premiere of Diana on Friday

Glamorous: The blonde star attended the Paris premiere after-party on Friday in a black and sheer mini-dress and donned a crisscrossing white gown at the London premiere on Thursday

The Mail's Christopher Tookey wrote: 'It has the slightness of a Barbara Cartland novella, but the love affair is treated with ponderous solemnity, as though it were another Gone With The Wind. It’s slow and terribly, terribly dull.

It went downhill from there as the film was panned in a series of dreaded one-star reviews.

But the criticism didn't seem to bother the sprightly actress in the least as she returned with her family to their Big Apple apartment later on Sunday.

Daddy's little helper: Sammy assisted his dad in getting the bicycle back in storage by pointing the way

While New York remains their preferred city of residence, the couple are also said to be leasing a home in Los Angeles.

That is where the clan lives while Schreiber films his Showtime series Ray Donovan.

'It was a very, very difficult decision,' he told the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in April.

'It was hard for me because my kids were in school in New York, all my friends are there and the theater is there. Those are the things I really miss.'