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2.0

Dave White Profile

Another tasteful drama about abject horror. Read full review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 3.0
    40

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Mixed or average reviews
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    critic review scores.

  • 0

    out of 100

    Village Voice

    So incompetently mounted by Brazilian director Vicente Amorim (it takes a clumsy directorial hand to make Viggo Mortensen come on like Sesame Street's Mr. Noodle) as to be utterly incoherent.

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  • 20

    out of 100

    The New York Times Stephen Holden

    In Good, the anemic screen adaptation of C. P. Taylor's play about a respectable "good German" who passively acquiesces to Hitler's agenda, Viggo Mortensen, miscast and ineptly directed by Vicente Amorim, plays John Halder, a liberal, mild-mannered literature professor who becomes a Nazi.

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  • 40

    out of 100

    Variety Dennis Harvey

    Considering its theme and setting, there's something very wrong with a Good that seems merely competent, uninspired and a bit old-hat.

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  • 40

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times

    Regrettably, the long-delayed adaptation from director Vicente Amorim and screenwriter John Wrathall gets crushed by the weight of trying to be something more; it's really just the story of a rather ordinary but disappointing man. The filmmakers reach for metaphor and allegory, but it comes at the expense of an emotional connection.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    USA Today Claudia Puig

    Though the film opens with an intriguing burnished look, it bogs down about halfway through with talkiness and uneven pacing.

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  • 70

    out of 100

    The Hollywood Reporter Ray Bennett

    Paced deliberately in a way that reinforces the tragedy of evil flourishing when good men do nothing, Good may find boxoffice returns slow to build but the film's aim is true and patient audiences will be well rewarded.

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  • 75

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    Good has a stagy fustiness, but it's worth seeing for Mortensen, who makes this study of a "good German" look creepily contemporary.

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