The Good Doctor
Image Entertainment | Release Date: August 31, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
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4
Mixed:
5
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
New York PostSara StewartAug 30, 2012
Ever wonder what "Scrubs" would've been like if Zach Braff's fledgling-doctor character was psychotic instead of goofy? I get the feeling John Enbom, screenwriter of The Good Doctor, has. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenSep 1, 2012
John Enbom's slow-burn script avoids overloading the action with backstory or psychologizing, and Bloom strikes the right balance of diffidence, panic and blank-itude to keep things creepily on edge. Read full review
70
Village VoiceNick SchagerAug 28, 2012
The film is anchored and greatly bolstered by Bloom, who delivers a performance of quietly escalating madness. Read full review
70
VarietyRonnie ScheibAug 24, 2012
Daly deftly creates a disturbing, Chabrol-like tension that plays on immediate identification with the handsome medico's lonely, shy vulnerability and slow-building horror at the depths to which his self-delusion can sink. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubAlison WillmoreAug 29, 2012
Awkward and arrogant, Bloom's character is reminiscent of The Social Network's take on Mark Zuckerberg: someone who was propelled in his nascent career by the idea that it would bring him the respect and acceptance he doesn't seem able to command in a social setting. Read full review
50
TimeRichard CorlissSep 1, 2012
Keough is nearly worth risking life (Diane's) and limb (Martin's) for. The eldest grandchild of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, she has a pale, dreamy lusciousness that puts as viewer in mind of Amanda Seyfried, though without the overt sexuality. Her not-quite-there appeal matches both the opacity of Martin's intentions and the entire underhanded, underwhelming experience that The Good Doctor offers. Read full review
50
The New York TimesStephen HoldenAug 30, 2012
Ultimately, even after momentarily falling apart in a fit of paranoia, Martin remains a cipher in a movie that never fulfills its potential as melodrama. If The Good Doctor isn't a bad movie, it tells only half the story. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierAug 30, 2012
Bloom's watchfulness and brittle seriousness anchors The Good Doctor, even as it wanders away from reality and into its own bizarre world. Read full review
40
Time OutDavid FearAug 28, 2012
Had Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley accidentally weaseled his way onto the set of E.R., it might have played out something like Lance Daly's medical-drama-cum-upward-mobility-thriller about a hospital's new resident (and resident sociopath). Read full review
38
Slant MagazineSimon AbramsAug 24, 2012
The Good Doctor isn't a ponderous bore because Blake isn't a strictly good or bad character: It sucks because he isn't even a compelling character. Read full review
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