There’s something warm and hopeful about Good Grief that wraps around your heart in an odd, comforting way.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 4, 2024

Dan Levy delivers a film filled with genuine feelings, even when the situations and the dialogue feel too staged at times, and they might take you out of the film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 3, 2024

It might not roll out the belly laughs, but it will certainly make you chuckle even while you’re emoting deeply.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 7, 2024

A multilayered depiction, Good Grief delivers on what its title promises and audiences will find they are richer in experience for it.

| Feb 4, 2024

Good Grief is a good romantic melodrama... This is not a comedy by any stretch of the imagination.

| Feb 1, 2024

Levy the actor does not give Levy the director/screenwriter what he needed.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 31, 2024

Perhaps, though, this is the kind of filmmaker niche Levy can excel in, as the friend we all know who doesn't take us outside our comfort zones

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 31, 2024

Good Grief is a bittersweet film, sensitively handled as it masterfully explores the emotions that come with death, infidelity, friendship, love -- in a broader context and of oneself -- and acceptance.

| Jan 25, 2024

The film centers as much on friendship as it does on grief, particularly as one struggles to process conflicting emotions. Levy's skilled at directing actors, as long as they have robust roles to execute.

| Jan 25, 2024

This might have been a sterner film if another actor played Marc and Levy applied more scrutiny to the character, but he’s done enough here to establish himself as a filmmaker.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 18, 2024

Fans of Schitt's Creek's Dan Levy might have hoped for more from his feature directorial debut, but this drama has enough to make its characters, central ideas, and locations a compelling watch.

| Jan 17, 2024

Good Grief is aimless, disjointed, and consists of a group of friends you end up having no sympathy for because even though they’re grieving, they spend more time telling you about grief instead of showing you through the actual movie.

| Original Score: F | Jan 16, 2024

Levy shows potential as a director and is able to draw exciting performances from his cast, so perhaps with a little more practice, he can become the next great actor-turned-director.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 15, 2024

There’s a near-constant dissonance in the kind of primal emotions that Good Grief is looking to unpack and the devotion to genre aesthetics that it is entirely incapable of ignoring.

| Jan 14, 2024

If you’ve ever been in a conversation with a friend and wind-up feigning concern while wondering if their rambling will ever end, then you get a sense of what sitting through this film is like.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 12, 2024

There are overlong scenes in which characters talk at length, to rather dull effect. The beautiful cinematography helps, though, with London and Paris effortlessly stealing the show.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 12, 2024

There are chuckles, whimsy, flirtations and tragic twists. But in the end, though entertaining and breezy, nothing cuts as deep as it should.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 11, 2024

The film works thanks to the strengths of its best moments, and for being a film about mourning, it is still breezy enough as a streaming watch.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 11, 2024

Levy is a lovely performer -- funny, natural, easy to like... [but] this weightless, surface-level feature is a tad overwritten, full of trendy, well-dressed people who talk a lot but rarely say anything of interest. Watchable, but only just.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 11, 2024

Everything feels very honest and from the heart.

| Jan 9, 2024