Word: escapists
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What makes The Good Girl worthwhile is its performances. All the actors play their entrapment with a weirdly convicted blankness. That's especially true of Aniston. Her Justine is short on book learning, but her instincts are sound. Her escapist strivings lead her into deep, even violent, victimization. Yet you remain invested in her, hoping she will escape her dim fate, hoping this patronizing film will rise above its mostly false sympathy for the American underclass...
...There are no terrorists present, no threats of ghastly weaponry falling into erratic hands. The bad guys remain traditional bureaucrats trying to cover their backsides. They still attempt to kill the old-fashioned way, up close and personal, but without a fanatic's awful malice. The result is an escapist fantasy that is--Damon's and Potente's persuasive performances aside--as weightless and inconsequential as a musical. And at the moment every bit as welcome. --By Richard Schickel
...cinema, a place where folks can forget about shopping and little Jimmy’s bad grades and get lost with a neurotic Russell Crowe, or Gandalf, Frodo and some pesky rings. This year will prove no different—audiences have the same variety of Oscar hopefuls and escapist blockbusters to offset their burning desire to drown yuletide angst with too much eggnog. The following are some of the standouts for this season...
...favor of escapist television. I'm not sure we would escape that...
...Escapist or not, Zoolander succeeds...