the storyline is unpersuasive (although it's said to be based on Shlesinger's experiences), but the film's loose, chatty style - under Kimmy Gatewood's direction - is pleasant enough in a typical indie-comedy way
in trying to both score laughs and impart a moral, Good On Paper doesn't really manage to do either; it's not funny enough to work as a straight comedy and not human enough to work as a dramedy
in her directorial debut, comedian Kimmy Gatewood handles the brittle material well, but it is the screenplay and the actors who make it a squirmingly good comedy
Iliza Shlesinger turns a true story from her dating life into an intermittently entertaining, if inconsequential, movie; Schlesinger's comedy also gets a little too smoothed out in the process, the film playing it safe when we want it to run wild
Iliza Shlesinger and Margaret Cho make a very funny duo, and while this collaboration isn't great cinema, it's an amusing and well-paced hour and half of entertainment
as an exercise combining stand-up comedy and narrative storytelling to process trauma, Iliza Shlesinger has written something that's both broad and socially relevant
"Good on Paper" may not master every theme it tries to tackle, but a solid premise and Shlesinger and Hansen’s unconventional chemistry make it more than worth your while
by Randy Myers [San Jose Mercury News ]
by Benjamin Lee [The Guardian ]
