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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
Good has a stagy fustiness, but it's worth seeing for Mortensen, who makes this study of a "good German" look creepily contemporary. Read full review
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. Read full review
It's an old-fashioned hoke-fest, in which the otherness of Germany is connoted by having everyone speak with a British accent. Read full review
Though the film opens with an intriguing burnished look, it bogs down about halfway through with talkiness and uneven pacing. Read full review
An uncharacteristically stiff Mortensen can't break free from the clichs that constrain his character, who feels more like a symbol than a real person. Read full review
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. Read full review
As a film, it's overly tidy, and the surreal concentration-camp climax gave at least one viewer an inappropriate fit of giggles. Read full review
Considering its theme and setting, there's something very wrong with a Good that seems merely competent, uninspired and a bit old-hat. Read full review
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. Read full review
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. Read full review
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Another tasteful drama about abject horror. Read full review