It's subtle; nothing is underlined. You can discover the movie as it goes along for yourself.

| Aug 28, 2024

A low-key, superbly acted, very well-directed indie.

| Aug 28, 2024

A quiet yet powerful film about learning how you want to be in the world, Good One is an impressive calling card for both Donaldson and Collias herself.

| Aug 26, 2024

Despite a few lines of dialogue veering into on-the-nose territory, at its best “Good One” catches fragments of a lifetime in a sentence or two.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 23, 2024

Welcome to “Good One,” India Donaldson’s short, sharp, subtle tale of a teenager on a camping trip with her father and his best friend.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 15, 2024

It’s a star-making turn: not just a good one, a great one.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 15, 2024

Good One is a quiet movie, not because it has little to say but because it wants you to listen, to pay as much attention to what’s left unsaid as to its meticulously crafted dialogue, and to the way silence can be a power as well as a punishment.

| Aug 12, 2024

In its lived-in quality and gathering churn, “Good One” is a dream of an indie, from the craft in every frame to the humor, epiphanies and mysteries that gird its portraiture.

| Aug 12, 2024

So much of the grace and, ultimately, the emotional resonance of Good One lies in Collias’ performance, and how she turns a symphony of reaction shots into a portrait of a woman caught in a crossfire of middle-aged male malaise.

| Aug 12, 2024

Its most distinctive quality is how much Donaldson and her trio of actors ... trust the subterranean, and allow it to do its work far beneath the surface, between the words.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 12, 2024

The movie smoothly shifts from gentle comedy to emotional punch, modest in a way that sneaks up on you in the end, backed by Celia Hollander’s acoustic, folk-inflected score.

| Aug 12, 2024

Good One is beautifully observed, making its point without being too obvious, and perfectly judged in that it doesn’t waste a single shot.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 9, 2024

[A] terrific, deceptively simple, warm-hearted indie.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 9, 2024

Lily Collias gives a dazzling performance in this gorgeous debut about a teenager on a camping trip with her dad and his friend.

| Aug 9, 2024

A quietly explosive tale of disconnection and betrayal, its placid exterior masking a wellspring of combustible tensions that are both impossible to ignore and difficult to resolve.

| Aug 9, 2024

As a debut, Good One is good enough, a sensitively performed drama of a journey into the wild.

| Aug 8, 2024

Good One is a reminder that there are always smart, interesting films being released, if you’re willing to look beyond the obvious. As it turns out, looking beyond the obvious is something that the writer-director India Donaldson has a real knack for.

| Aug 8, 2024

It is humanity, with all of its beauties and disappointments, as most of us experience it. And it’s one that will likely stay with you for some time.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 7, 2024

Donaldson crafts the most profound debut of the year so far all within a neatly polished runtime, something that has been hard to come by as of late.

| May 22, 2024

Subtly dark, humorous, and wise, Good One leans into its wilderness backdrop in all of its liberating (and, sometimes, paradoxically claustrophobic) properties.

| Feb 5, 2024