The Good Guy 2009

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Resh enough to provide the voyeuristic kick of glimpsing the frenzied lifestyle of aspiring masters of the universe. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: It's network television drama, starring actors best known for their TV work and full of the petty gripes and mild worries of characters who really have nothing compelling to worry about. Read more

Adam Markovitz, Entertainment Weekly: The Good Guy has a few half-cute moments, some chuckles, and enough pretty faces to cast at least two TV pilots. What it doesn't have is a clue. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: Drawing on his stint at a Chicago investment firm, DePietro creates characters, dialogue and situations that feel authentic, which makes the film relevant in unexpected ways, though not as deeply as you hope he'll do in the future. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Greenberg is dull and lumpish; Porter is little more than a smile on its way to a toothpaste ad. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: There's too little difference between the good guys and the bad guys in Julio DePietro's uninspired debut, a slickly cynical romance destined to be quickly forgotten. Read more

Leigh Paatsch, New York Post: There is a reason why McCarthy doesn't get hired to play a sharking alpha male very often. When he makes an effort to work his features into a frenzy of boiling testosterone, he looks like a petulant third-grader. Read more

Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: A fresh and original take on a familiar tale. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It has smart characters, and is wise about the ones who try to tame their intelligence by acting out. Read more

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Ella Taylor, Village Voice: The Good Guy suffers from the dreary want of imagination about the specificity of twentysomething life that has sunk so many other specimens of this battered genre. Read more