Good Deeds Reviews

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• we get things like establishing shots and coverage and a cohesive look that tend to be absent in his earlier efforts

  by Alonso Duralde [The Wrap ]

• we get almost everything we expect from his films, except for this: It's boring

  by Bill Goodykoontz [Arizona Republic ]

• way too much talk about sacrifice and self-improvement

  by Stephen Cole [Globe and Mail ]

• there is no faith-based message, but the moral is obvious: persistence pays off

  by Elizabeth Weitzman [New York Daily News ]

• the potential exists in Good Deeds for a thoughtful examination of class divisions within the African-American community

  by Thomas Leupp [Hollywood.com ]

• the film doesn't coherently explore this theme

  Review rate : C by Sam Adams [AV Club ]

• sadly, that tone is funereal, and it's always a beat out of step with the rhythms of both real life and most movies

  by Wesley Morris [Boston Globe ]

• relentlessly unsurprising in its plotting and borderline comical in its melodramatic flourishes

  by Joe Leydon [Variety ]

• much cut-rate melodrama ensues, none of it particularly painful to watch

  by Keith Uhlich [Time Out New York ]

• melodramatic slog riddled with laughable dialogue that wouldn't hold a made-for-TV-movie audience past the first commercial break

  by Linda Barnard [Toronto Star ]

• it's no less savvy an entertainment

  by Alison Willmore [Movieline ]

• it lacks even the token Perry touch of comic relie

  Review rate : B- by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly ]

• graciously, this is but a speed bump in the structured but organically textured narrative landscape

  by Rob Humanick [Slant Magazine ]

• flat movie in which he's hitting his "women as victims" theme a bit more lightly

  by Roger Moore [San Jose Mercury News ]

• as usual in Perry's films, the characters are strictly one-dimensional- at least, until they're not

  by Frank Scheck [Hollywood Reporter ]

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