Aniston plays a 30-year-old retail clerk whose lifeless marriage and dead end job land her in the arms of a younger co-worker. This starts off a house of cards that quickly begins to plague her life.

Nicely acted and superbly written, The Good Girl is a simple but entertaining little film. Aniston, looking very un-Rachel-like, does a nice job in a film where she's in every scene. The script and direction work really nicely together; even through the movie's most volatile situations there is a calmness about it that reflects the small town Texas scenery. Zooey Deschanel supplies many laughs as one of Aniston's jaded co-workers.

The Good Girl might not be the most exciting or even memorable picture, but it certainly is among the better movies of the year.

Directed by Miguel Arteta.