Rotten
There's a fascinating story here for a bolder filmmaker, but after so much meandering it's a relief that All Good Things must come to an end.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
All Good Things
The perfect love story. Until it became the perfect crime.
2010 · 1h 41m · R
Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Directed by
Andrew Jarecki
Overview
Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.
Director and cast
- Andrew Jarecki Director
- Kirsten Dunst as Katie Marks
- Ryan Gosling as David Marks
- Kristen Wiig as Lauren Fleck
- Frank Langella as Sanford Marks
- Lily Rabe as Deborah Lehrman
- Philip Baker Hall as Malvern Bump
- Michael Esper as Daniel Marks
- Diane Venora as Janice Rizzo
- John Cullum as Richard Panatierre
- Trini Alvarado as Sarah Davis
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
33%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Jarecki knows how to make scenes of boisterous family reunions and quiet moments between lovers engaging: He fares less well, though, when the story takes a dark turn.
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
Rotten
Director Andrew Jarecki, who made his name with the documentary Capturing the Friedmans, is less successful at limning family dysfunctionality in the fictional mode.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Rotten
It also feels like one man's attempt to try another in the court of cinema, or perhaps correct the course of justice itself.
Rafer Guzman, Newsday
Fresh
The unsolved crime turns out to be less mysterious than the mind of the killer, nervily portrayed by Gosling as not evil but unaccountably empty.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
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