Good Fortune
Lionsgate | Release Date: October 17, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
61
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
Positive:
22
Mixed:
15
Negative:
1

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisDec 1, 2025
This is a movie that wants to have it both way. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleOct 21, 2025
Ansari’s ambition is admirable but he’s better at diagnoses than solutions. His gold-touch move is giving the hilariously deadpan Reeves one of his best roles in years: a goofy meme brought to disarming life and the movie’s beating heart. Read full review
60
The TimesKevin MaherOct 17, 2025
In the end Good Fortune is perhaps too ambitious, and indulges in too much sermonising, especially when Gabriel also joins the human workforce and, like Jeff, experiences financial hardship. Reeves is good value as the clueless angel but an unfortunate sense of repetition sets in. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubTim GriersonOct 16, 2025
Unfortunately, the sharp point of view and creative risk-taking present in Ansari’s acclaimed series Master Of None (co-created with Alan Yang) are nowhere to be seen in this pedestrian comedy full of convoluted plot points. Read full review
58
IndieWireBeandrea JulySep 7, 2025
In the end, Good Fortune left me skeptical and uneasy, wondering whether the people it depicts with such lightheartedness will only feel objectified instead. Read full review
55
The Travers TakePeter TraversOct 17, 2025
Keanu Reeves is an angel of fun in this bright but tonally broken Aziz Ansari comedy about the hell of living in a gig economy. Read full review
50
Little White LiesJenna MahaleOct 20, 2025
Unfortunately, the schmaltzy mumblecore sensibilities that made Ansari’s Master of None a successful outing don’t translate in Good Fortune, an observational comedy of paltry observation; a frothy, big studio concoction of little substance and even less style. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 17, 2025
The leads are engaging and some jokes land. But none of them cut deep because there’s little edge to any of this. Read full review
50
Washington PostSonia RaoOct 16, 2025
All the world is a farce, Ansari seems to say, while suggesting that it can still be saved. But like a breezy sitcom episode, his big-screen creation doesn’t feel the need to offer solutions. Read full review
50
The Associated PressLindsey BahrOct 16, 2025
Good Fortune has its heart in the right place, but it lacks a spark and internal engine that might have made it more entertaining, and ultimately impactful. Read full review
50
Next Best PictureGiovanni LagoSep 19, 2025
Good Fortune is an amusing effort from Ansari, but one can’t help but leave it wanting a bit more, especially from someone of his caliber of talent. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeyOct 23, 2025
It’s far less endearing than we’re presumably meant to think. Read full review
40
EmpireSophie ButcherOct 17, 2025
An anti-capitalist fable that lets down its star power with an underdeveloped script. All of Good Fortune’s good intentions don’t make up for it being such a mediocre time at the movies. Read full review
40
The RevealKeith PhippsOct 16, 2025
It’s the work of someone who didn’t take the time to realize he had nothing to say, then decided to say something anyway. Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeSep 7, 2025
There are noble intentions to Good Fortune, in ways related to both the resurrection of the big-screen comedy and its of-the-moment through-line about the increasingly untenable class divide in America, but also not a lot of laughs, the idea of its existence more appealing than the experience of watching it. Read full review
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