Good Manners
Distrib Films | Release Date: July 27, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
73
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
1
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayAug 16, 2018
This is a different kind of monster movie, no doubt. It’s beautiful and magical, and as aware of the real world as it is of classic Hollywood. Good Manners is a haunting tale of love — and the burdens that come with it. Read full review
90
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisJul 26, 2018
Swerving from predictable to confounding, dreamy to demented, artful to awkward, this genre-twisting hybrid from Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra links art house and slaughterhouse with unexpected success. Read full review
83
The PlaylistOliver LytteltonJul 26, 2018
Pulling off an ambitious mash-up of genres like Good Manners is no easy feat — that Dutra and Rojas pull it off so successfully suggests we’ll be hearing a lot more from them down the road. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloJul 24, 2018
There’s nothing especially wrong with the arty horror movie that Good Manners becomes, mind you, and the metamorphosis (unexpected, for those who haven’t read a review or seen the poster image, anyway) offers pleasures of its own.
80
Screen DailyWendy IdeJul 26, 2018
Genre defying and genuinely unexpected, this intriguing urban fairytale takes the mythology of the werewolf story and uses it as a prism through which to view contemporary Brazilian society. Thematically rich, it weaves together fantasy horror elements with commentaries on class, race, sexuality and motherhood. Read full review
80
Village VoiceSerena DonadoniJul 25, 2018
Rojas and Dutra have created a singular fable where anxiety and fear are directed inward, even when the danger is all too real. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungJul 26, 2018
The first hour is the strongest, graced as it is by Estiano's nuanced performance as a conventional-seeming young woman who gradually and very sympathetically reveals her inner self after welcoming Clara into her life. Read full review
70
VarietyJay WeissbergJul 26, 2018
Class, desire, motherhood, responsibility to society — all these themes are worked in, to varying degrees. Yet balancing the film’s two halves is less successful, and certain shifts between humor and dead-seriousness don’t quite work. Read full review
67
The Film StageLeonardo Goi
For a first half so rich in plot, subtext and genres, it feels somehow frustrating to see Good Manners’s potential stall a little as the feature enters its second part. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerAug 22, 2018
Yet while it's refreshing to see teen lycanthropy handled as something other than a metaphor for sexual awakening, Good Manners dawdles on its way to a surprisingly predictable and unearned resolution. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineDiego SemereneJul 27, 2018
The film is a rebellion of surfaces that never quite reaches, or emanates from, the underpinning roots of its fable. Read full review
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