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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 24, 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

Pugh gives a mesmerising performance and Freeman, for once cast in a very substantial role, is better than he’s been in several years.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 15, 2023

The tone is jarring throughout, mostly preachy and po-faced, and built upon several awkwardly overperformed scenes (Lots of “ ‘F*** you!’ ‘No, f*** you!’ ”) that mostly feel like offcuts from an Edward Albee tribute play.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 27, 2023

Having redeemed the rather silly Don’t Worry Darling through sheer charisma, Florence Pugh is once again called upon to bring her magic to otherwise indifferent material.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 26, 2023

A bad movie about unreal people.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 25, 2023

The reason it doesn't become a rambling mess is because Morgan Freeman and Florence Pugh are so damn good.

| Mar 24, 2023

It's got its moments, but a very frustrating film overall.

| Mar 24, 2023

Pugh has a way of reminding you why a close-up is the single best gift the moving pictures have given us... You don’t blame Braff for wanting to craft a movie around her. But you can blame him for the movie itself that surrounds that performance.

| Mar 24, 2023

The intimate story is darkly funny and rich, anchored by Pugh’s unsparing and deeply satisfying performance. Out of darkness, Braff finds hope and the potential for connection among unlikely (yet deeply likable) characters.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2023

... The script gestures vaguely at the wider US opioid crisis but, Lord knows, Braff is no social realist. The stuff of addiction and loss is instead sprinkled with cuteness, then smothered with a custard of speeches about us all being works-in-progress.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 24, 2023

You’re not seeing Pugh and Freeman at full strength. Still, even in this half-hopeless effort, they’re as good as it gets.

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

Decidedly forgettable

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

Writer/director Zach Braff anchors the film with tender-hearted, touching performances by Morgan Freeman and Florence Pugh.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 24, 2023

A Good Person adds schmaltz where it does not belong, and instead of observational distance that could further humanize the events Allison and the others are confronting, Braff forces ghastly treacle down the viewer’s throat.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 24, 2023

[Zach Braff] achieves something accomplished by no other filmmaker to date: he extracts a bad performance from Florence Pugh.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 24, 2023

A Good Person does occasionally spill over into the realm of the mawkish... But on the whole, it's rooted in truths, it tells a human story and its heart is in the right place. It's a good movie.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 23, 2023

It’s a haunting slice of real life that will make you think, feel and maybe even want to reach out to your loved ones. As the film vividly shows, they can be gone in a flash.

| Mar 23, 2023

“A Good Person” highlights the director’s inability to deal with heavier material. He punctuates this film’s depressing subject matter with hit-or-miss moments of humor and comedy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 23, 2023

There are enough moments of grace and threads that defy the obvious cliche to keep you interested, even if you’re not wholly buying or invested in every character.

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