...this is hardly Flaubert, but it is a fairly beguiling look at moral calculation...

| May 7, 2021

"The Good Girl'' will finally make Jennifer Aniston a movie star.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 12, 2018

A warmly satisfying comedy about dissatisfied people seeking to escape from the personal prison of their mundane lives in soulless suburbia.

| Mar 31, 2009

I wish I could say I liked it more, but despite a smattering of priceless moments, The Good Girl gets bogged down in the very narrowness that afflicts Justine.

| Feb 9, 2006

Aniston may not have received her much-touted Oscar nomination, but this brilliantly funny and often touching film should assure her a solid post-Friends career.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 2, 2003

Maybe Aniston should stop trying to be serious and stick with being funny, which is something she can certainly do.

| May 2, 2003

A watchable and competently acted drama ... It's all very much out of the American Beauty rulebook.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 20, 2003

Treads a fine line between wry satire, black comedy, and vaguely unsettling melodrama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 3, 2002

Once fans recover from the shock, they'll discover that this sitcom actress has the chops to tackle some pretty heavy stuff.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2002

Funny in the most squirm-inducing of ways.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 26, 2002

Succeeds as a moody, evocative, and pleasing film, one that underscores its indie roots in sentiment as well as style.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 25, 2002

It's soulful and unslick, and that's apparently just what [Aniston] has always needed to grow into a movie career.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2002

An absorbing, slice-of-depression life that touches nerves and rings true.

Full Review | Aug 21, 2002

White hasn't developed characters so much as caricatures, one-dimensional buffoons that get him a few laughs but nothing else.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 21, 2002

It's a more believable scenario for infidelity than most such movies, and Aniston gives her all to the role.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 21, 2002

Aniston inhabits this role.

Full Review | Aug 16, 2002

It's tough, astringent, darkly funny and... well, it's also generic, untidy, condescending and mild of impact rather than stunning.

Full Review | Aug 16, 2002

A fine cast can't quite rise above a story without enough heart.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 16, 2002

A smart, arch and rather cold-blooded comedy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 16, 2002

What a fresh and interesting take on the drama that lurks beneath the numbing faade of empty small-town American life.

Full Review | Aug 16, 2002