A.V. Club
It's not funny enough to work as a straight comedy and not human enough to work as a dramedy.
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Good on Paper
After years of putting her career ahead of love, a stand-up comic believes she's struck gold and found the perfect guy in this comedy. However, as their dating lives progress, she becomes more suspicious that he's not the man he says he is.
2021Rating: R92 minsUSAUniversal Pictures
ComedyDramaRomance
Good on Paper / Reviews
Paste
Should be permanently erased from the memories of anyone unlucky enough to have seen it.
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Schlesinger's comedy also gets a little too smoothed out in the process, the film playing it safe when we want it to run wild.
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IndieWire
Shlesinger's resistance to buffering over her prickly bits is the best thing about "Good on Paper."
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Wall Street Journal
It's a bravura portrayal of a character who's endearing, awkward and strange, in a movie that's definitely overlong but can be engagingly weird.
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Variety
Containing razor-sharp witticisms about feminine intuition, gendered sexual politics and relationships, it excels beyond its self-deprecating title.
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RogerEbert.com
Despite the movie's darker aspects, Gatewood and Shlesinger escape with some decent laughs and pointed questions.
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