Certainly one of Perry's best films yet.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 9, 2020

Tyler Perry has done his own good deed in bringing us Good Deeds. He doesn't need to hide behind Madea anymore.

| Nov 26, 2019

Perry knows what he's doing, he knows what buttons to push and when, and he handles it all with supreme confidence.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 8, 2019

Tyler Perry's Good Deeds is supposed to be a feel-good movie. Unfortunately, it takes way too long to make you feel much of anything.

| Feb 3, 2017

A simplistic and utterly-predictable morality tale.

| Original Score: 2.0/5 | Jun 30, 2013

... smoothly entertaining. Eventually, though, Perry is undone by his own deft clichs, and he doesn't know when to stop ...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 12, 2012

In terms of Perry's oeuvre it's surprisingly light on the cheesy melodrama.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 7, 2012

It's in the upper half of Perry's filmography, at any rate, both in terms of conceptual rigor and execution.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 3, 2012

Tyler Perry is no Douglas Sirk.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 3, 2012

The melodramatic film has numerous light and comical touches, and the performances are uniformly good. The film's pace, however, has the consistency of molasses.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 3, 2012

An entertaining film with Perry in the lead, but the acting honors are stolen by the supporting cast

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 1, 2012

A ridiculously redemptive finale negates almost all of the preceding dramatic tension and resurrects a cloying Richard Marx chestnut to boot.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 26, 2012

'Message' movie lacks humor to draw in teens.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 25, 2012

Whose life, Wesley asks in the movie's narration, is he living? Judging from all the sterile office and apartment space and his mile-long face, I'd say Bruce Willis's in "The Sixth Sense.''

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 25, 2012

Good Deeds has a Hollywood gloss very much in keeping with its San Francisco settings and attractive cast.

| Original Score: B | Feb 25, 2012

There aren't a lot of laughs in "Good Deeds," and it could have used more of them.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 24, 2012

An otherwise unremarkable pic that takes what feels like a very long time to unwind a drearily predictable storyline.

Full Review | Feb 24, 2012

Good Deeds honors goodness, which isn't at all a bad thing, and it's not without moments of genuine feeling. But by the film's end, after watching a seemingly infinite number of dour close-ups of sober self-evaluation, I felt bludgeoned.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 24, 2012

Good Deeds, with its Frank Capra-gone-Good Will Hunting title, is lucky to have Thandie Newton, easily the most gifted actress ever to have starred in a Tyler Perry movie.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 24, 2012

[Tyler Perry's Wesley] is Prince Charming for a prospective audience of women who are less enchanted by rippling abs than by kindness and responsibility.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 24, 2012