Good Dick 2008

Critics score:
51 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Amy Nicholson, Boxoffice Magazine: Palka has an eye for authenticity -- the bland LA apartments, growling traffic and isolation of living in a city that requires people to make their own happiness. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: Mostly the movie is eccentric and edgy in childish ways, relying on offhand shock and predictable revelations. Read more

Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Good Dick carries its messed-up, highly improbable premise so lightly and gracefully that it ultimately comes off as a sweet, plausible and curiously grounded love story. Read more

Tim Grierson, L.A. Weekly: Unfortunately, Good Dick is all high-wire act, determinedly thwarting the expectations of its genre but unable to present a wholly successful alternative to romcom conventionality. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: As irritatingly monosyllabic as its characters, this indie 'romance' -- the quote marks aren't an accident -- feels over-workshopped and false at almost every point. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: A short and sweet anti-romantic comedy, Good Dick puts together a heav ily depressed young woman with a homeless clerk who rents her porn at a Los Angeles video store. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Read more

Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: Surely some of the young woman's porn videos would make better viewing. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: Ultimately, the body part that gets the most play is the mouth, with the hyphenate and her personal-professional partner Ritter trading the sort of sub-Cassavetes banter that screams self-written acting exercises. Read more

Anna Smith, Time Out: Good Dick' is enjoyable as a cute, playful indie - it's just not as perceptive about female psychology as it sets out to be. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: An annoying example of self-therapy posing as art. Read more