When Justine stares into the big, droopy eyes of Holden (Jake Gyllenhaal), a new employee who wears his voluble, depressive air like the Red Badge of Courage, she's enchanted. White) and Cheryl (Zooey Deschanel), who makes sour, deadpan attacks on the inane day-to-day routine of the store's public address system. Her co-workers include a thoughtless, proud manager (John Caroll Lynch), a bullying born-again security guard (Mr. Justine spends her dreary days at Retail Rodeo, a down-at-the-heels Texas version of stores like Target and Wal-Mart. And it's a winner, helped along by a no-frills performance by Jennifer Aniston as the soul-sick cashier Justine. Here it's like a Bette Davis melodrama directed by Luis Buñuel: ambition and heartache with a poisonous undercurrent of anti-bourgeois absurdity. Like ''Chuck and Buck,'' this director's previous collaboration with the writer Mike White, ''Girl'' is about a perverse need to create romance. Even the title of the new Miguel Arteta crooked comedy of manners, ''The Good Girl,'' is contrary and mocking.
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