The Good Night 2007

Keith Phipps, AV Club: The tone is all over the place. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The Good Night doesn't quite comfortably synthesize all the notions writer-director Jake Paltrow wants to play with in his feature debut. But the filmmaker's got good taste -- and luck -- in casting. Read more

Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: Writer-director Jake Paltrow's (yes, brother of Gwennie) debut feature is exquisitely romantic, painful, and riotous; everyone's lonely and going about it wrong. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: The Good Night has flashes of bookish wit, but never quite recovers from the metronomic monotony of its first half. Read more

David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: The Good Night takes familiar (embarrassingly familiar) male-angst material and makes it go loop-de-loop, so that the jokes hit you from behind and underneath while the bleakness smacks you in the face. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: As thin and wispy as a dream you can't quite remember in the morning. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: The sort of movie you forget even as you're watching it. Read more

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Trevor Johnston, Time Out: Skimming through comedy, satire and cautionary tale, it's all somewhat vague - exasperatingly so when suggestive artiness seems to have been intended. Not as clever as it thinks. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: Jake Paltrow's first feature delves assuredly into the mind of a lost soul who literally encounters the woman of his dreams. Read more

Michelle Orange, Village Voice: Director Jake Paltrow's feature debut has all the hallmarks of an earnest young man's feature debut, and while that is not necessarily a bad thing, I can only imagine that it fit Sundance like a fingerless glove when it had its premiere there. Read more