The Good Girl

Pros: Great acting, dark story, interesting moral and amoral tale.
Cons: ...a little too dark/vulgar for many "Friends" watchers...

Ya know, Jennifer Aniston has never been my favorite “Friend.” She’s very good looking, but I’ve al ...

Pros: good acting by Aniston and Gyllenhaal
Cons: uneven pacing of comedy and drama, ending

Life changes happen for a variety of reasons. Normally, a person reaches a time of one’s life and decides that they either haven’t achieved what they expected by that time or that they are just going through the motions in the life they are ...

Pros: The story, the performances, Aniston breaking in to a new type of actress
Cons: I wish it was longer.

I don't know where I've been. In between studying and doing laundry, I somehow turned the television to one of the cable movie stations and saw that Jennifer Aniston was in a movie called The Good Girl, so I decided to watch. The movie reeled me ...

Pros: Performances
Cons: A bit predictable

How many choices do we make in a day? Ten? Twenty? A hundred? Thousands? Every step we take technically involves a choice of some kind. Most have little significance. Decaf or regular, paper or plastic, do dishes or take a nap (oh, sorry, that last...

Pros: Aniston. The attempt.
Cons: It is so difficult to pinpoint what the attempt is.

This is extremely likely to ‘spoil’ the movie for you. You have been warned.




Buried somewhere within the point this movie is trying to make (if it is trying to make one), is another point. Maybe just another...

Pros: Aniston, Gyllenhaal, supporting cast, script, direction
Cons: Just a little too slow at times

Justine Last desperately hates her life. She’s a thirty-year-old clerk at Retail Rodeo, a store in a small Texas town that’s miles away from nowhere. Her husband, Phil, paints houses with his best friend, Bubba. When they’re not painting, they’re just...

Pros: Lots of good acting -- Aniston, Deschanel, Reilly, Blake Nelson, etc
Cons: Expands on stereotypes only so far, but mostly falls back on them.

End of summer roles around and critics, minds fried on too many movies that even Rob Schneider would turn down, look around desperately for alternatives, films with some trace of humanity that they can latch onto and ride like a boogie-board all the way...

Pros: Jennifer Aniston's minimalist performance, a sad-funny script, a sheet-snatching dog
Cons: Jake Gyllenhaal's teeth, an abrupt head-scratching ending

Phil and Justine Last lie in bed like two strangers, though they've been married for seven years. Phil, a house painter, is staring at the ceiling, undoubtedly thinking about the sweet taste of the doobie he smoked that afternoon and wishing he could...

Pros: Reilly, Gyllenhaal, Nelson, Aniston, Deschanel, well written script, and great performances.
Cons: A little haphazard, and requires some use of the cerebral cortex to appreciate.

This is a movie that falls only a hair short of being one of the best ones. As it is, I found it hilarious, and if you can laugh at the bittersweet reality of life in a small town in a dead end job, then this movie will tickle your funny bone as well. It...

Pros: Jennifer Aniston finally breaks out of her Friends mold.
Cons: I was a little disappointed in the ending.

I've never thought of Jennifer Aniston as much of a "dramatic" actress until tonight. Really. I thought she was only capable of light-hearted comedy like that which she plays on Friends or even in some of her past movies like Office...

Pros: good dialogue, good performances, biting wit
Cons: familiar genre of the young and disenchanted

I've always liked Jennifer Aniston, one of the few cast members from Friends I can happily exclude from that recurring fantasy of mine - the one where they're all aboard the same private plane - as it crashes into the side of a mountain. Some ...

Pros: Holds interest, interesting ending
Cons: Not funny, lacks something.

A movie had just came out that my husband and his friends were just dying to see so they all decided to go out on a Saturday night and see it. This left me home alone with the kids on Saturday night. Normally we play cards or games with friends on...

Pros: good acting, some funny parts, stoned painters!
Cons: bleak

Justine Last (Jennifer Aniston) leads a dull life in the middle of Texas. She is a clerk at the Retail Rodeo, a low-end department store that seems to be even lower-end than Ames. Justine's husband Phil (John C. Reilly) is a lazy oaf of a house...

Pros: Aniston, John C. Reilly, Tim Blake Nelson, all the cast really...
Cons: a bit too reliant on stereotypes and a rather unfulfilling ending.

Jennifer Aniston is in nearly every frame of The Good Girl and - to be honest - I was sort of kind of waiting for her to stumble or falter at some point; a slip in the accent, an accidental momentary regression into her Friends character, a...

Pros: Great Acting and Plot
Cons: A Little Slow at Times

I like seeing these type of movies in theaters because you always know no kids will be there. I had to remind myself of this while waiting in line and watching all the Brittany wannabes make a scene. As you've probably heard, this movie is a refreshing...