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09/11/08
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The Go-Getter (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 21
Fresh: 9
Rotten:12
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Consensus: A hipster take on the well-traveled road movie, The Go-Getter features nice performances, but ultimately fails to carve its own path.
Reviews for The Go-Getter
The first road movie that could fit into the mumblecore genre of dithering youth angst: The Go-Getter travels, but it doesn't go anywhere.
06/13/08
Director-writer Martin Hynes shapes his first movie into something emotionally truthful, painfully funny and vibrantly alive.
06/11/08
Strives for hipness but ultimately just feels contrived and derivative.
06/10/08
Top Critic There are moments of beauty here, but not enough to make up for the mannered dialogue and hamstrung performances.
06/06/08
Top Critic It's a great premise, and the movie rarely disappoints. (OK, we didn't need the song-and-dance number, but still ...) Hynes has style to spare and storytelling chops. The low-key Go-Getter is well worth discovering.
06/06/08
Seems to have sprung from a how-to-get-to-Sundance template, with a framework plot that serves as a mere Christmas tree on which to hang baubles of quirk.
06/06/08
Given proper promotion, however, one can see Merce--and The Go-Getter--getting chased down by appreciative arthouse audiences.
06/06/08
A fairly well-made picture that's just been fairly well-made too many times before, a knock-off of a thousand other knock-offs.
06/06/08
Much of the dialogue is so quirky it sounds overheard instead of scripted. The performances are correspondingly spontaneous.
06/06/08
Top Critic Hopefully, future film classes will use this picture as template for how not to make a movie.
06/05/08
More than a movie about becoming an adult, The Go-Getter is a feature-length audition reel for Deschanel to finally get the roles she deserves.
06/04/08
If you can look past writer-director Martin Hynes's familiar fest formula, his film modestly rewards with gorgeous sun-spotted cinematography, tender digressions in rather brave quantities, and believably charming dialogue.
06/04/08
Another dull indie road movie that doesn't really go anywhere ... little more than a vanity project that wastes most of its better-than-average cast.
06/04/08
Martin Hynes’s first film, The Go-Getter, is an especially wonderful addition to the [road movie] genre, with the right -- flickering -- mixture of loneliness and enchantment, and with jokes that come at you from just around the bend.
06/02/08
Behold, indie-rock hipsters: The Go-Getter, the cinematic navel lint from which She & Him crawled out to produce the almost cruel monotony of Volume One.
06/01/08
How many road trip movies of self discovery starring artsy, skinny, white kids that fall in love with unconventionally cute little brown-haired girls do we need?
01/30/07
The Go-Getter is a nearly perfect demonstration of what happens when what was once a frontier for exploration becomes a factory floor for repetition.
01/27/07
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