Goodbye World
Samuel Goldwyn Films | Release Date: April 4, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
36
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
7
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
The PlaylistKatie WalshApr 4, 2014
The strength of Goodbye World is that it understands the foibles of these characters and lets them be as flawed as they are while they are also trying to survive not just the apocalypse but each other. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianMarc MohanApr 3, 2014
Goodbye World will remind you more of "Gilligan's Island" than "Lost." Read full review
50
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreApr 2, 2014
Film buffs will see Goodbye World as a sort of “Trigger Effect” meets “Return of the Secaucus Seven” — growing up, learning to look at the world through more jaded adult eyes as the world ends. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineDavid Lee DallasMar 31, 2014
The tetchy band of thirtysomethings' interpersonal problems are infinitely less compelling than the mysterious and original global disaster the filmmakers have devised. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesInkoo KangApr 3, 2014
An unconvincing, poorly conceived hybrid of end-of-the-world thriller and relationship drama. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanApr 3, 2014
Apocalyptic visions are no longer enough to shock us. By this point, if you want to imagine the end of the world, you really need to say something new about it. Read full review
40
The DissolveJen ChaneyApr 2, 2014
This film can’t decide whether it’s a Noah Baumbach-ian character study or an episode of NBC’s Revolution. Read full review
40
Village VoiceSherilyn ConnellyApr 1, 2014
The soapy material is at odds with the largely distant catastrophe, which often feels too abstract to be a real threat. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyApr 4, 2014
I am probably indulging in a rather obnoxious form of criticism-as-parlor-game-psychotherapy by positing that each of the three main white male characters in director Denis Henry Hennelly's Goodbye World is meant to represent a facet of the director himself. Unfortunately, such activity is about all the movie is any good for. Read full review
30
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldApr 3, 2014
As these overwritten characters cope and make fresh romantic missteps, the movie cruises obliviously along, littered with glib dialogue and howler developments. Read full review
20
Time OutKeith UhlichApr 1, 2014
Only Gaby Hoffmann makes a lasting impression, as the thick-skinned pariah of the bunch. Somehow she’s able to give the ring of truth to even the hoariest of Hennelly and cowriter Sarah Adina Smith’s conceits (notably a rally-the-troops speech cribbed from founding father George Washington). The rest makes you long for Armageddon. Read full review
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