The Good Girl

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Arteta's third feature is good step in the right direction, for him as a disrector and for Jennifer Anniston as an actress

Jennifer Aniston is excellent in what is the best performance of her career, yet.

In Miguel Arteta's quirky indie feature, Jennifer Aniston searches for meaning and passion in a swirl of suburban malaise and ironically may have finally found a character who can reveal the shades of her talent.

After languishing in second-banana roles in such films as Picture Perfect and Rock Star, Ms. Aniston here creates a fully realized character of surprising nuance and depth.

In the long run, The Good Girl will be remembered more as a chance for Jennifer Aniston to wet her acting chops than for anything else.

Aniston shows promising signs of a post-sitcom career with her convincing and understated dramatic work.