Harley Stine

*** cheesy, imo *** -------------------

Yes ****************************

Do not waste your time in this. An awful movie.

In my view, 'Nice Girl Like You' feels cheesy because of its shallow writing, weak acting, and direction. Maybe if it got a rewrite and a director like Sean Baker from 'Starlet,' plus some solid casting, it could become a really cool indie film.

One word review:::::: Entertaining

I’ll have a slice of Mystic Pizza please.

It is clear in the first minutes of the film that ‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” is a play bringing to my mind immediately the movies ‘The Boys in the Band’, 1970, directed by William Friedkin and ‘Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean’, 1982, directed by Robert Altman. Those two movies were plays first that were later put on the big screen. I am surprised that GLtY, LG comes to us as a movie first. Maybe someone will follow with the play? I think the film’s pacing is balanced and rhythm consistent. Writing and performances are outstanding. The characters inner conflicts and resolutions are clear and well presented. The film is moving in my opinion. Jack Nicholson recently said in an interview: "The movie business is the greatest business but I only want to do films that move people, films about emotions and people. I had the most chilling thought that maybe people in their twenties and thirties don't actually want to be moved any more. They may want just to see more bombs, more explosions, because that is what they have grown up with. And I'll never do that type of movie." GLtY, LG is counter to that thought and I hope it forestalls the thought momentarily.

Unimaginative, predictable dialog between impossible to like characters and annoying voice over throughout make the interminably slow paced movie dull right up to and including the unimaginative, predictable end scene. Nothing thriller at all about The Card Counter.

For my taste and in my opinion, terrific arthouse humor in noir set design and cinema photography.

Terrific cast, wonderful performances, but thoroughly implausible plot making suspension of disbelief impossible for me.