Metacritic Movie Ratings
Good Reviews

3.0

out of 100

Metascore^®
Mixed or average reviews
Based on a weighted average of all critic review scores.

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

75

out of 100

Entertainment WeeklyOwen 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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70

out of 100

The Hollywood ReporterRay 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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50

out of 100

USA TodayClaudia 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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40

out of 100

VarietyDennis 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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20

out of 100

The New York TimesStephen 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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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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