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	Good Girl, The (2002): Reviews
		There's a shallowness about The Good Girl that can't always be excused as an accurate portrayal of a shallow milieu -- in the end, just like Justine, it's not as good as it could have been.
		At its best, The Good Girl is a refreshingly adult take on adultery, where the dark humor and offbeat fringe characters don't get in the way of the consequences or the quiet declarations of devotion slipped between the words.
		As a "good girl" who manages to eat her cake and have it, too, and emerge relatively unscathed while everyone else around her feels the aftershocks, Aniston really impresses.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/goodgirl (1709 words)

	The Good Girl (2002)
		That synopsis probably makes The Good Girl sound heavier than it really is. In truth, one should probably view the movie as a satire to get the most from it.
		The Good Girl appears in both an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 and in a fullscreen version on this double-sided, single-layered DVD; the widescreen image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		I waffled between giving The Good Girl a “B-“ or a “C+” for picture and went with the former because it did present a pretty solid picture for the most part.
	www.dvdmg.com /goodgirl.shtml (2453 words)

	Old Gold and Black > 9.26 > Aniston too low-key in 'The Good Girl'
		The film The Good Girl opens with a voiceover by the film's main character, Justine Last, played by Jennifer Aniston: "As a girl you see the world like a giant candy store filled with sweet candy and such.
		The Good Girl was directed by Miguel Arteta, and although this is not the first time Arteta and White have teamed up successfully, The Good Girl is enjoying far more attention and commercial success than the 2001 film Chuck & Buck, which won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature.
		The Good Girl closes as it opened: with a monologue that once again finds a commonality with the humanness of the viewer.
	ogb.wfu.edu /issue/2002/09.26/arts/a.B5.goodgirl.asp (509 words)

	The Good Girl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Good Girl is a title that fails to suggest the reality beneath - a tranquil surface above a roiling volcano.
		Justine (Jennifer Aniston) is a good girl all right - thirtyish, married to boring Phil (John C. Reilly), who paints houses, decorates his couch in front of TV, and handles joints like your friendly orthopaedist.
		She drags through each day at the Retail Rodeo, a substandard buy-it-all, where the booming of the shopper's loudspeakers portends doom for everyone and the Makeover counter guarantees it for the local aging women.
	home.comcast.net /~maclark66/GoodGirl.htm (257 words)

	The Good Girl (2002)
		Aniston proves she's as good as her claim in the new indie film scripted by the writer/director of Chuck and Buck.
		Seven years later, she is stuck in a less than boring job in retail hell, her husband (John C. Reilly from Magnolia and The Anniversary Party) is a house painter who's idea of fun is to watch TV while getting stoned, and they have gotten no where near her "goal" of starting a family.
		Worst of all, she sees this as good as it is going to get.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/GoodGirl/GoodGirl.html (430 words)

	The Good Girl
		The Good Girl, which re-teams White with Chuck and Buck director Miguel Arteta, is a well-made obscure comedy that, with its off-romp situations getting zanier by the scene, could almost pass for a Coen brothers film.
		But The Good Girl isn't merely about the choices we make and how decisions affect the lives of those surrounding us, but why these choices are made.
		The fact that it’s all told in low-key fashion, which amazingly doesn’t detract any of the film’s thudding shocks (it actually increases their voltage), is another contributing factor to why this Sundance favorite works on many levels, including one of poignancy.
	www.movienavigator.org /goodgirl.htm (581 words)

	The Mediadrome - Film - Reviews - The Good Girl
		Jennifer Aniston gives what is easily her strongest big-screen performance to date (if you can accept her as an unglamorous, frumpy housewife), but even though the film raises a lot of interesting questions, it still feels too forced and contrived to ring true.
		Since "The Good Girl" marks the second pairing of director Miguel Arteta and screenwriter Mike White--whose last outing was 2000's low-budget "Chuck and Buck"--it's not surprising that the two films have a lot in common.
		There are too many noticeable coincidences in "The Good Girl" to keep it from feeling real, but it is still a well-acted, darkly comic, provocative film that's sure to make you ponder the choices you've made.
	www.themediadrome.com /content/reviews/good_girl.shtml (656 words)

	The Good Girl
		The Good Girl, the second collaboration between director Miguel Arteta and writer Mike White (the first was Chuck and Buck), chronicles Justine's increasing depression as she comes to recognize the dead end that her life has become.
		The Good Girl is not afraid to show the American workplace as less than idyllic.
		To its credit, the movie is not content to simply reveal the desire for escape, but ultimately questions whether that desire might be as much an illusion as the presumed bliss of a nuclear family.
	www.cinescene.com /reviews/goodgirl.html (1863 words)

	The Good Girl (2002) -A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		There is at least some hope in the ending shots of the film, that allows us to see the good that can come even after the evil that we have allowed in our lives.
		Justine, though, is no longer a girl - she is grown up, married and longs to start a family.
		At that point it comes down to whether or not she is going to be good or not -- whether she will be overcome by evil -- or whether her good will overcome the evil.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /good_girl.htm (888 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review: Good Girl, The (2002)
		The flawlessly drawn characters that inhabit their oppressively ordinary Texas hometown in "The Good Girl" pop off the screen with such a rare accuracy and truthfulness that they cease being mere screenwriting creations.
		To describe "The Good Girl" may make the film appear to be a strictly dark study in despair.
		The title, "The Good Girl," comes from Justine's yearning to be a responsible and respectable person, and there are several moments of unshakably thought-provoking narration in which she laments about where the many decisions she has made have lead her in her life.
	www.themovieboy.com /reviews/g/02_goodgirl.htm (931 words)

	The Popkorn Junkie :: The Good Girl
		Alas, "The Good Girl" is a worthy piece of cinema, and I have no doubt it will be honored come Oscar time, which it should be.
		Frogs raining from the sky in "Magnolia" was something else, as was Phillip Seymour Hoffman spraying his bedroom wall with unexplainable substances--"The Good Girl" kind of made me want to take five or ten perkiset.
		However, with "The Good Girl", no redemption ensues and all the characters pretty much remain the same by the end of the film.
	popkornjunkie.com /reviews/goodgirl.html (755 words)

	The Good Girl
		Aniston gives a breakthrough performance that is by far the best thing about the movie, and can potentially pave the way a good career for her as an actress (if she continues to choose good roles).
		Aniston's (Rock Star, Iron Giant) portrayal of Justine Last is nearly the polar opposite of her Rachel persona.
		As it turns out, Holden is still basically a kid, and cannot understand the personal crisis that she is going through.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/good_girl.html (480 words)

	"The Good Girl" - Salon
		But it also never quite establishes its own identity, and when you remember it in two years it's likely to be that movie you saw that you kind of liked with that girl in it, what's her name, from TV.
		White's screenplay tries to become simultaneously darker and zanier as it goes along, as if he wanted to write a Coen brothers version of "American Beauty." Eventually Justine has Holden hiding in her car, virtually wearing a fake nose-and-glasses, begging her to go on a "Badlands"-style killing spree-cum-road trip.
		And the portrait of down-market Caucasian America in "The Good Girl" -- the America of Retail Rodeo rather than Wal-Mart -- bears a faint but unmistakable tinge of exoticism or nostalgia.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/movies/review/2002/08/07/goodgirl/index.html (1213 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - The Good Girl
		Good looking, mysterious and with dreams of being a successful writer, Justine finds herself drawn straight away to Holden.
		'The Good Girl' however, could be the film to change all that.
		It's the type of low budget character study that has become an industry in the US, and while disappointing, it does give Aniston the chance to prove that she can carry a film.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2003/0113/goodgirl.html (357 words)

	The Good Girl - Movie Rental Review
		THE GOOD GIRL is a mature story about love and frustration with special appeal for fans (teenage and adult) of Jennifer Anniston.
		THE GOOD GIRL has both funny and touching moments; all the actors give very sharp performances with great dialogue, but the plot fails slightly at the end.
		If THE GOOD GIRL is a parable about how the absolute, fl and white beliefs of youth give way to mature compromise, the story itself should never just fade to an unsatisfying "realistic" gray.
	www.commonsensemedia.org /movie-reviews/Good-Girl.html (615 words)

	The Good Girl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Her other films have been light romantic comedies but "The Good Girl" involves her in some serious acting.
		Summary-A good comedy with a remarkable performance by Aniston, this is definitely worth a rental for an evening.
		This film may lead Aniston to other good parts in future films as she proves she can do much more than television comedy.
	www.dvdcorner.net /html/goodgirl.html (423 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Good Girl [2003]: DVD: Jennifer Aniston,Deborah Rush,Mike White,John Carroll Lynch,Jake ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Good Girl stars Jennifer Aniston as Justine Last, a 30 year old married woman who becomes disillusioned with her dead-end job as a shop assistant, with her pot-head husband Phil (played by John C. Reilly), and with life in general.
		The Good Girl is something different to the run of the mill rom-coms that Jennifer Aniston has made a name for herself in the movie business as playing.
		The Good Girl is a quirky and unusual film with a very non-typical sense of humour.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Good-Girl-Jennifer-Aniston/dp/B00008V6YG (1930 words)

	The Good Girl (2002)
		In the opening minutes of The Good Girl, Jennifer Aniston provides a narrative introduction about her character's life, delivered in a twangy, country-style voice.
		Once again stuck in the part of the "husband with an unhappy and depressed wife" is the always good John C. Reilly, whose natural likeability turns out to be quite important in order for the story to be convincing.
		I recommend it to fans of character-driven films, although I must warn that if you won't be able to get past the fact that a woman as beautiful and charismatic as Jennifer Aniston is stuck in some dead-end life, then you won't be able to appreciate the acting and might as well not even bother.
	www.moovees.com /review/good-girl.html (541 words)

	Amazon.com: The Good Girl: DVD: Jennifer Aniston,Deborah Rush,Mike White,John Carroll Lynch,Jake Gyllenhaal,Zooey ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		THE GOOD GIRL is a well written, well directed strange story that adresses the Kafkaesque microcosms we all create.
		And what of Justine--the voice over narration shows a bright, intelligent young girl who is trapped in her own life and can't seem to change anything.
		I was really surprised at how good of an actress Jennifer Aniston is. The only thing I'd ever seen her in was Friends, so I didn't really expect her acting to be as good as it was.
	www.amazon.com /Good-Girl-Jennifer-Aniston/dp/B0000797IO (1753 words)

	The Good Girl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		There's some good material in their story about a retail clerk wanting more out of life, but the movie too often spins its wheels with familiar situations and repetitive scenes.
		The Good Girl is a film in which the talent is undeniable but the results are underwhelming.
		With the dreary, offensive The Good Girl, Arteta and White have attempted to turn their biting wit on...Middle America...content to revel in making fun of regular nobodies.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/TheGoodGirl-1115664 (884 words)

	THE GOOD GIRL - DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Good Girl is a sitcom that dreams of one day becoming an opera.
		Thirtyish Justine has good reason to feel trapped: married to a loutish pothead named Phil (John C. Reilly) and sentenced to a lifetime of tedious labour at the local Retail Rodeo, her youthful aspirations have been crushed under the weight of the domestic life she's settled for.
		One can see flashes of that horror in The Good Girl's vision of doing time in nowheresville, but it's under (studio-enforced?) restraints; where the earlier film was brutal in its mercy, the latter makes less nice by not making nasty enough.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/goodgirl.htm (938 words)

	Good Girl - Moviefone
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		The Good Girl Movie Review and Cast/Crew List Review of the independent film, The Good Girl, starring Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, John C. Reilly, and Tim Blake Nelson, and directed by Miguel...
		Good Girl - Cast & Crew, movie showtimes, plot, synopsis, exclusive features, trailers, clips, theater listings, reviews, message boards, dvd, videos, rentals and more on Moviefone.
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	The Good Girl Review
		With the movie The Good Girl, Jennifer Aniston may be nipping at Kudrowâ€™s critical heels, and if the film is successful, she may go after Cox Arquetteâ€™s crown next.
		She eventually starts to feel guilty about the affair and wonders if she is still a "good girl." She wants to end the affair, but he is obsessed with her and makes it difficult for her to end it.
		The Good Girl is the second collaboration between director Miguel Arteta and writer Mike White (who also plays Corny, a religious zealot and security guard for the Retail Barn.) Their first movie was Chuck and Buck, one of the first movies filmed entirely with digital video to get distribution.
	www.entertainyourbrain.com /goodgirlrev.htm (502 words)

	THE GOOD GIRL (R): ChildCare Action Project (CAP) Media Analysis Report MAR22092
		THE GOOD GIRL (R) --...Holden is just the man to give it to her.
		Justine was raised a good girl and says she is aware of God and faith and all that sort of thing but has her own ideas about it.
		Not only because of the potential to embolden real people to do the same and because of real people demonstrating sin thus sinning themselves but because most of the cast were good at their jobs.
	www.capalert.com /capreports/goodgirl-the.htm (1733 words)

	The Good Girl
		Bubba sees her at a rent-a-room-by-the-hour motel with Holden and he flmails Justine so that Phil does not learn of her affair.
		This good girl is a woman who often does bad things in an earnest and sweet way.
		"The Good Girl" brings a fresh perspective to everyday life amidst a host of summer movies that are quite forgettable.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /2002/id1903.htm (472 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Good Girl (xhtml)
		In "The Good Girl," she plays Justine, a desperately bored clerk at Retail Rodeo, a sub-Kmart where the customers are such sleepwalkers they don't even notice when the "Attention, Shoppers!" announcements are larded with insults and nonsense.
		She also finds out what she should have suspected, that Bubba would never tell Phil about her secrets, because he adores Phil too much and, as Phil's wife, she is protected by his immunity.
		She says it's Phil's, and that claim cannot be disproved on the basis of Phil's information; having confessed to cheating, she allows him to suspect someone who could not have a fl-haired child; therefore, the father is the dark-haired Phil.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20020816/REVIEWS/208160303/1023 (585 words)

	The Good Girl
		The Good Girl is as close as you can get to nothing and still have something to project on screen.
		Every scene in The Good Girlhas the same dreary, frustrating melodramatic tone of a soap opera, but without even passionate tension.
		The Good Girl remains so shockingly drained of verve that it actually renders the audience into a numb stupor.
	www.absolutely.net /movie/2002_The_Good_Girl.html (500 words)

	CNN.com - 'The Good Girl' premiere - August 9, 2002
		Jennifer Aniston with hubby Brad Pitt at the premiere of "The Good Girl."
		The famous friend plays Justine, an unhappily married woman who discovers her soul mate in a mysterious younger man, played by Jake Gyllenhaal.
		Brown-sack goody bags were an eclectic mix of beef jerky, beauty products and a tin of "Good Girl" candy.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/09/in.hop.goodgirl (278 words)

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