The Good GirlPitching it up for around 90 minutes; the track is short and the pace is on, resulting onto an entertaining experience but is it satisfying? Well that's a question one will take it to its grave for there is too much going on to digest and accept even if it is barred within logic and genuine reasoning. Miguel Arteta doesn't quite gets the depiction right which leads to the most confused experience ever for on the other hand Mike White's screenplay is fast and gripping. On performance level, there isn't much to complaint from Jennifer Aniston, John C. Reilly and Jake Gyllenhaal but there surely isn't anything inspiring or impressive too. The Good Girl lacks a character development and a better projection of it and due to this the reasoning; no matter how much circumstantial and concrete, the feature just doesn't fit for it doesn't help connecting the audience to them.

Wow!!!!! I'm shocked to see people calling "Cake" her only good and Oscar worthy performance.This movie was beautiful. Jake Gyllenhaal was very good as well. I read "The Catcher in the Rye" before watching this movie in order to be able to absolutely feel it, for I am an Aniston fan and also read some good reviews about this movie; and man that was a good decision. Any of us would feel separated from the world and everyone close to us from time to time; I guess Justine was one of us. An ordinary person with an ordinary boredom of life, so when she met Holden, well he was right for that short time, before she got pregnant and felt kinda alright again like many of us do, when slight changes happens in our lives. Holden, on the other hand, I don't think he would have ever been happy even if she had left with him and eventually all that anger and loneliness would have burst out one way or the other.Now Jennifer did a swell job here, and I know this movie came out when she was still doing Friends alongside loads and loads of romantic comedies, so it's even more underrated and especially when Renée Zellweger got so much attention for that not-so-bright comedy "Bridget Jones".Approach this with cautious, this is Not a typical Aniston comedy. Heck it's not even a comedy, just pitch black.

The Good Girl was a movie I just happened on. After watching it, I took Jennier Aniston completely seriously as an actress. This movie goes beyond what I had expected from it. There are a few reviews that claim she was evil and despicable by doing what she did - but I find her to be realistic. She wanted to escape her monotonous life, wanted to make something, and wanted to dream. Holden represented this unhinged dream. She hated everything in her life, and so did he. But the two, unfortunately for both, had different limits. His passion was boundless, with large ideas that he could likely never achieve. Her passion was a dream, and became far too real as she began to live it out. I found every single choice made by her in the film to be a realistic one. I believe I see myself in her character a lot, and that might be why I love the movie so much. She was willing to sacrifice a lot to hold onto her dream while she could, but when things became too real, she backed out, realizing she prefers the comfort of the monotony over the 'wilderness' that was Holden. Loved it!

We're so used to seeing Jeniifer Aniston in all of these dreadful romance movies, like Love happens(ugh). But there were times where she did something fresh. Like her role in friends, and in 2002's The Good girl, which she gives her best performance.Aniston plays Justine, a woman who is in a marriage that she can't stand, a job she can't stand. Well, to sum it up, she is depressed.He life changes and goes downhill when she meets Holden(played terrificly by Jake Gylenhaal), who also hates his life.So from then on the two begins to sleep with each other. And eventually her husband's(played by John C. Reilly) friend(played by Tim Blake Nelson) finds out and blackmails her with sex. And the film really spirals out of control onto dark comedy material.The good girl is really original and really funny. And a tad bit insane. And very surprising. The performance by Jennifer Aniston is her best. This is also director Miguel Arteta's(Youth in revolt) best film too. The Good girl is a great film. It's really not what you're expecting. It's funny, dramatic, dark. One of the best films of 2002. I loved this movie.The Good girl:4/4