UnowPriceless
hyped garbage
Acensbart
Excellent but underrated film
Ava-Grace Willis
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Adam Peters
(44%) One of those perfectly fine films that somehow still only amounts to a lot of effort put into a story that by the end simply isn't really worth it. There's at times a TV movie of the week feel to this; although it's a decent quality TV movie with plenty of period detail and a strong leading roles. Gosling's character is a very hard character to get behind, and that's even before he becomes overly shady. There are some twists and turns to the story, and by the end Gosling's character's behaviour is very odd adding some much needed interest, but it just isn't enough to make this a small step up from ordinary and forgettable.
tieman64
Good material is wasted in "All Good Things", a crime drama by Andrew Jarecki, the director responsible for the remarkable "Capturing the Friedmans".Like "Capturing the Friedmans", "All Good Things" delves into the life of a creepy family. They're the Marks, a band of real estate tycoons whose lives descend into crime and scandal. At the heart of these scandals is David Marks (Ryan Gosling), a weird kid whose been emotionally scarred by both his mother's death and his domineering father. In an effort to escape the violent playgrounds of the super-wealthy, David marries Katie McCarthy (Kirsten Dunst), a working-class girl, but to no avail. He's slowly sucked backed into his father's inner sanctum.Despite fine performances by Gosling and Dunst, "All Good Things" is mostly inept. The film is shapeless, David Marks remains a cipher and the film's attempts at Hitchcockian horror/weirdness clash oddly with what is otherwise a straight-faced docudrama. The film was based on the life of Robert Durst. The heir to a New York real estate dynasty, and possibly a serial killer, Durst's wife mysteriously disappeared in 1982. Jarecki's film mostly gets wrong the causes and mannerisms of real-world Dursts.6/10 – Worth one viewing. See Jean-Xavier de Lestrade's "Death on the Staircase".
p-stepien
First time helmer Andrew Jarecki delves into the unsolved 1982 disappearance of Kathleen McCormack, the first wife of Robert Durst, heir to billionaire real estate mogul Seymour Durst. As if to avoid libel the character names were changed, even if the story itself is arguably the most dedicated reconstruction of events in memory. Natural dramatisation was introduced, while certain key plot points were given to present one possible version of events (an educated guess on behalf of writers Marcus Hinchey and Marc Smerling).Rich heir David Marks (Ryan Gosling) falls for lower class Katie (Kirsten Dunst), who aspires to become a doctor, and despite family protests of entering into a relationship outside of his class, marries her and together set up a low-key country life in Vermont and a shop "All Good Things". Despite happiness found in each others embrace in this reclusive hideout, David in cajoled and lured back by David's father, Sanford Marks (Frank Langella) to work for him in New York. Slowly the relationship starts going sour, as David's past catches up with him (forcing his wife to abort her pregnancy) and lack of sensitivity to Katie's needs pose question marks as to the sincerity of feelings. As paranoia creeps into the marriage the darker sides of David and Katie Marks relationship are explored, and one probability as to what occurred is put into the forefront...Jarecki delivers a confident and stylish movie, one however that falls into the trap set by his own artistic concept. Attempting to refrain from overtly accusatory tones, the movie lingers, hints, suggests, but is very economical with explicitly stating. This restraint ventures into all aspects of the movie, including reasons why the Katie and David distanced themselves from each other, as well as not implicitly pointing out David's psychological issues. Sticking to the most part to cold hard facts (only in the end 20-30 minutes are educated guesses directly presented) Jarecki draws the line to showing what is actually happening, often fading to black, and showing aspects of the past which are documented, such as Katie coming to her neighbours for assistance with a black eye, but never actually showing David hit her.This intriguing ploy does however tend to be self-defeating, as characters increasingly lack distinctiveness. Hints and clues form a somewhat oblique, but convincing version of events, but somewhere within this the story with regards to the why, are lost in the grey areas. Both Gosling and Dunst deliver fine performances, but they too have to always seem to take a step back and let the concept take control, not really affording them much space to truly develop the characters and creating a convincing well-rounded portrait of the relationship. This ambiguity makes for a tough watch and I found myself struggling to keep interested, and only once all the elements where set in motion and Katie disappeared did the movie pieces really start to come together into a bigger picture. The last 30-so minutes therefore make for good watching (albeit still ), but the path towards it is tedious and uneventful, lacking much needed cinematic magic.Nonetheless, this misfire shows the great artistic potential of Andrew Jarecki, as a director worth note for the future.
Charlton Alonso
Charlton Alonso played the role of Young Daniel. Too cute! Trying to link the IMDb for him... He did not receive credit for the role. He played the brother of Young David. Young David was played by Tristan Comeau. Tristan did receive credit for the role. The boys were in the scene of the birthday party flashback. Charlton is getting on a horse and shooting his mom with a fake gun. He is also playing tennis and swimming in a pool with his brother and mother. He is seen as the only actor on the screen for parts of the flashback. He was also linked to the IMDb page for the movie. Charlton did not receive any credit at the end of the movie. However, would it be possible to please link him now for credit on his IMDb page. He has established film credits already and would be so appreciative if he could get linked to the movie's IMDb page. Thank you so much!!!
