Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Mature road-trip dramedy doesn't go anywhere new.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 19, 2010

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2009

The transition from the slopes of Sundance to the hard streets of everywhere else is the artistic equivalent of the bends.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Even when relegated to an audio-only part, Deschanel has a flattering whimsy that etches her hurt and sensuality in equal measures.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 11, 2008

The first road movie that could fit into the mumblecore genre of dithering youth angst: The Go-Getter travels, but it doesn't go anywhere.

| Original Score: C | Jun 13, 2008

Director-writer Martin Hynes shapes his first movie into something emotionally truthful, painfully funny and vibrantly alive.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 11, 2008

Strives for hipness but ultimately just feels contrived and derivative.

Full Review | Jun 10, 2008

There are moments of beauty here, but not enough to make up for the mannered dialogue and hamstrung performances.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 6, 2008

It's a great premise, and the movie rarely disappoints. (OK, we didn't need the song-and-dance number, but still ...) Hynes has style to spare and storytelling chops. The low-key Go-Getter is well worth discovering.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 6, 2008

Seems to have sprung from a how-to-get-to-Sundance template, with a framework plot that serves as a mere Christmas tree on which to hang baubles of quirk.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 6, 2008

Given proper promotion, however, one can see Merce--and The Go-Getter--getting chased down by appreciative arthouse audiences.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 6, 2008

Much of the dialogue is so quirky it sounds overheard instead of scripted. The performances are correspondingly spontaneous.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 6, 2008

A fairly well-made picture that's just been fairly well-made too many times before, a knock-off of a thousand other knock-offs.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 6, 2008

Hipster filmmaking-by-numbers.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 5, 2008

Hopefully, future film classes will use this picture as template for how not to make a movie.

| Jun 5, 2008

More than a movie about becoming an adult, The Go-Getter is a feature-length audition reel for Deschanel to finally get the roles she deserves.

| Jun 4, 2008

If you can look past writer-director Martin Hynes's familiar fest formula, his film modestly rewards with gorgeous sun-spotted cinematography, tender digressions in rather brave quantities, and believably charming dialogue.

| Jun 4, 2008

Another dull indie road movie that doesn't really go anywhere ... little more than a vanity project that wastes most of its better-than-average cast.

| Original Score: 4.5/10 | Jun 4, 2008

Martin Hynes's first film, The Go-Getter, is an especially wonderful addition to the [road movie] genre, with the right -- flickering -- mixture of loneliness and enchantment, and with jokes that come at you from just around the bend.

| Jun 2, 2008