Critic Reviews

• 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.

• Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

  It has smart characters, and is wise about the ones who try to tame their intelligence by acting out.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Stephen Holden, New York Times

  resh enough to provide the voyeuristic kick of glimpsing the frenzied lifestyle of aspiring masters of the universe.

• S. Jhoanna Robledo, Common Sense Media

  High-reaching adult drama with lots of language, drinking.

• Kam Williams, NewsBlaze

  Good guy finishes last and makes mediocre movie.

• Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

  Mild, pleasant, obvious romantic comedy set on Wall Street that's most notable for its (maybe accurate) portrayal of young brokers as amoral idiots oblivious to the real-life consequences of their risky business.

• Brian Orndorf, DVDTalk.com

  Even on a reduced scale of expectation, Good Guy is stunningly empty and obvious, missing its mark as a cautionary tale or a romantic sojourn, instead slogging along a preordained trail of cliché.

• Brett Michel, Boston Phoenix

  Writer/director Julio DePietro's first effort is every bit as obvious as it sounds, thudding from one symmetrically perfect cliche to another.

• Brent Simon, Shared Darkness

  A sort of much more polite, estrogenized filmic companion piece to a lost, mid-era Bret Easton Ellis novel, this movie has a different, interesting cant than most films of its ilk, but can't quite turn that positive into a deal-closing recommendation.

• Ethan Alter, NYC Film Critic

  For a movie that clearly aspires to be an up-to-the-minute representation of New York City, The Good Guy already feels quite dated.

• Pete Hammond, Boxoffice Magazine

  The cast could not be better.

• Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

  New York-based love story that illustrates how old-fashioned virtues can still play a significant role in matters of the heart.

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