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Good

2008

Vicente Amorim

Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Mark Strong, Steven Mackintosh ...

5.4

4,846

Drama John Halder (Mortensen) is a 'good' and decent individual with family problems: a neurotic wife, two demanding children and a mother suffering from senile dementia. A literary professor, Halder explores his personal circumstances in a novel advocating compassionate euthanasia. When the book is unexpectedly enlisted by powerful political figures in support of government propaganda, Halder finds his career rising in an optimistic current ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"Anemic screen adaptation of C. P. Taylor’s play (...) Viggo Mortensen, miscast and ineptly directed by Vicente Amorim"	NEG
United States	Ray Bennett The Hollywood Reporter	"Absorbing drama about a good man who is blind to the horrors of Germany's Nazi regime"	POS
United States	Dennis Harvey Variety	"Considering its theme and setting, there's something very wrong with a 'Good' that seems merely competent"	NEG
United States	Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times	"The filmmakers reach for metaphor and allegory, but it comes at the expense of an emotional connection"	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Good has a stagy fustiness, but it's worth seeing for Mortensen, who makes this study of a 'good German' look creepily contemporary. He shows us the horror  of ignorance."	NEU
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"Good lacks character development and dimension. (...) Though the film opens with an intriguing burnished look, it bogs down about halfway through with talkiness and uneven pacing. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)."	NEG
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"The banality of evil has met its match in the banality of 'Good', a Holocaust parable that barely registers a pulse."	NEU

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