Good Deeds
Lionsgate | Release Date: February 24, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
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Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
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10
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2
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Slant MagazineRob HumanickFeb 25, 2012
Simultaneously both archetypal Tyler Perry and another step in the direction of nuance and thoughtfulness for the filmmaker. Read full review
70
MovielineAlison WillmoreFeb 24, 2012
While Wesley is both too good to be true and an absence of a charisma on screen, Good Deeds is very fair to its two main female characters even as they're both entangled with the same man. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanFeb 24, 2012
Perry holds back on the finger-wagging, eye-bulging tantrums. There were moments when I was grateful for that. There were others, like the kissy scenes between Perry and Newton, when I began to miss them. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriFeb 24, 2012
Watching the impossibly dry and somnambulant Good Deeds, you actually miss that crazy side of Perry. It's sort of ironic: Here's a film about a guy who's being false to his true self, and you realize the director might be doing the same. Read full review
50
VarietyJoe LeydonFeb 24, 2012
Good Deeds is relentlessly unsurprising in its plotting and borderline comical in its melodramatic flourishes. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubSam AdamsFeb 24, 2012
As Wesley Deeds - get it? - Perry is stripped of Madea's fat suit and fright wig, but his performance is so muted, he might as well be swaddled in cloth. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckFeb 24, 2012
This soapy effort about a prosperous businessman having a midlife crisis finds Perry working in the heavily melodramatic mode that marks his weakest efforts. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen ColeFeb 23, 2012
What the film needs more than anything is Perry's alter ego, Medea – a rampaging bowling ball who might knock all these stiff, upright characters spinning. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenFeb 29, 2012
The melodramatic film has numerous light and comical touches, and the performances are uniformly good. The film's pace, however, has the consistency of molasses, and there's hardly a scene that wouldn't be improved by judicial trimming. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith UhlichFeb 24, 2012
Much cut-rate melodrama ensues, none of it particularly painful to watch, until a ridiculously redemptive finale negates almost all of the preceding dramatic tension and resurrects a cloying Richard Marx chestnut to boot. Read full review
40
The New York TimesDavid DeWittFeb 24, 2012
Good Deeds honors goodness, which isn't at all a bad thing, and it's not without moments of genuine feeling. But by the film's end, after watching a seemingly infinite number of dour close-ups of sober self-evaluation, I felt bludgeoned by thesis-driven dialogue and noble intentions. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzFeb 24, 2012
Newton's character is the only one we really become invested in. At least that's something. But Good Deeds leaves you wanting much more. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanFeb 24, 2012
This film - like all the Madea-free dramas - could use more humor. Still, every Perry movie has its highs and lows. This time, the highs are a little higher, and the lows not quite so low. There is no faith-based message, but the moral is obvious: persistence pays off. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeWesley MorrisFeb 27, 2012
Good Deeds is the first of the 11 movies he's written and directed to try a one-tone-fits-all approach. Sadly, that tone is funereal, and it's always a beat out of step with the rhythms of both real life and most movies. Read full review
30
Boxoffice MagazineTodd GilchristFeb 24, 2012
Tyler Perry has finally achieved an odd kind of equality that heretofore eluded him: he's now just as mediocre and middle of the road as any other reliable hitmaker in Hollywood. Read full review
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