We have seen all this before.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 11, 2024

There is a split narrative in A Good Person that weaves through the tale of grief. In some ways the pull of focus from one character or another fails the stronger narrative of Allison.

| Original Score: C | Jul 3, 2024

If only the filmmaker had relinquished the rehab template and dared to explore the more obscure corners of a story a hundred times told, A Good Person could have transcended the clichés it's mired on.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 13, 2024

Has everything that you would expect from a Zach Braff film - a good screenplay and a great soundtrack. This one will keep you guessing with all of its twists and turns. Morgan Freeman, Florence Pugh and Celeste O'Connor are amazing throughout.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 16, 2023

Braff has not grown as a filmmaker or writer and still believes putting a bunch of indie songs over a scene is enough to make it dramatically coherent. Still, for those who love Florence Pugh, her performance will not disappoint even if the film does.

| Sep 6, 2023

Though Pugh does her customary excellent work here, she’s ultimately undermined by all the overlong, transparently manufactured, and downright whiplash-inducing melodrama around her.

| Sep 2, 2023

Zach Braff’s latest won’t change the screenwriting or filmmaking game one bit, but a pair of solid lead performances made it worth watching. Morgan Freeman helps every movie he's in.

| Original Score: B | Aug 26, 2023

The entire cast elevates the heavy-handed, predictable and contrived melodrama, though there are magic human moments that land because of the performers’ skills.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 16, 2023

Zach Braff's direction is solid but his writing is the best aspect of it all as well as Florence Pugh great performance.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 22, 2023

Director Zach Braff delivers many insightful, poignant scenes about grief, guilt, and how hard it can be to forgive ourselves, even when other people have already forgiven us.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 30, 2023

There are some undeniably foreboding moments, but thankfully, it wades into darker territory without quickly brightening everything with a cute scenario.

| May 29, 2023

Touching story about three people who are able to face addiction and grief through their kindnesses to each other.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 28, 2023

A Good Person is a story of shades of grey that loses itself in its third act, but just as well deserves our attention to attend a display of honesty told by a regretfully insecure hand. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 22, 2023

It’s a deeper issue than the stakes of the film not manifesting, there’s something about the clear-eyed presentation of its bleary-eyed characters that seems to signal a quality of inauthenticity.

| Original Score: 45/100 | May 20, 2023

A forgettable sentimental melodrama about a family tragedy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 18, 2023

Writer/director Zach Braff’s well intentioned but predictable drama A Good Person is saved by another stunning screen performance from Florence Pugh.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 28, 2023

A Good Person mostly works, thanks to the strength of its performers and its compassionate spirit.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 24, 2023

“A Good Person” veers between moments of genuine feeling and moments of phony schmaltz — and ends up delivering more of the fake stuff than the real thing.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 23, 2023

After an annoying beginning, A Good Person hits its stride and turns into a movie you definitely should not miss; a meditation on the ravages of opioid addiction, featuring dramatic heavy-hitters Pugh and Freeman. Very heartwarming.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 21, 2023

The pleasure lies in watching Pugh and Freeman face up and finally come around to one another. It’s not straightforward, a dance of advance and retreat with both revealing their strengths and weaknesses, but it’s always worth watching.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 20, 2023