A Good Person
United Artists Releasing | Release Date: March 24, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
15
Negative:
6
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMar 22, 2023
A work of art such as A Good Person cannot be the product of some casual connection. It’s the product of a soul connection, and I hope Braff and Pugh get another chance to work together. Read full review
80
Film ThreatAlan NgApr 6, 2023
Not sure if anyone wants to hear this, but A Good Person is a simple yet complex drama with the intention of bringing some good to this world. Read full review
80
VarietyOwen GleibermanMar 22, 2023
It’s an addiction drama that has scenes you can bicker with, a few contrivances, and other peccadilloes. Yet beneath the middlebrow situational conventionality, there’s a core of raw feeling and truth to it. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMar 30, 2023
Although narrative aspects of A Good Person occasionally veer into areas that are either cliched or artificial, many individual scenes are effective (at times powerful). Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comNell MinowMar 24, 2023
Some sharp dialogue and Freeman and Pugh's committed and insightful performances hold it together. Read full review
75
ObserverEmily ZemlerMar 22, 2023
Even as the film’s plot tips slightly overdramatic, it hits on something that feels very true, especially for viewers who have experience with addicts. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinMar 23, 2023
A Good Person isn’t an easy ride but, like such disparate, if similarly themed, movies as “Rabbit Hole,” “Waves” and “Four Good Days,” it’s a haunting slice of real life that will make you think, feel and maybe even want to reach out to your loved ones. Read full review
70
We Got This CoveredMartin CarrMar 23, 2023
Florence Pugh gives another magnetic performance in this hard hitting redemption drama, written and directed by Zach Braff. Aided and abetted by Morgan Freeman, an otherwise average melodrama is elevated by two movie stars on top form. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckMar 22, 2023
Pugh delivers a superb starring performance that serves to accentuate her growing artistic stature and co-star Morgan Freeman turns in his best work in years after appearing in far too many sub-par vehicles. Their efforts lift A Good Person, which otherwise too often feels familiar in its themes and self-conscious in its melodramatic plot contrivances. Read full review
67
ColliderRoss BonaimeMar 22, 2023
Led by two solid performances by Pugh and Freeman, A Good Person shows growth from Braff as both a writer and director, as he attempts to push himself into a more mature story that we’re used to from him. Read full review
63
The Associated PressLindsey BahrMar 22, 2023
A Good Person seems to belong to a uniquely Dan Fogelman-esque subgenre of hyper sincere melodrama that sometimes clicks (“This Is Us”) and other times does not (“Life Itself”). Braff’s film is worlds better than “Life Itself,” but there are some similarities in how it strives for cosmic significance and ultimate tearjerking within a construct that the film tries to sell as authentically specific. In execution, it’s a bit more strained and contrived. Read full review
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