Floated2 All Good Things (2010) is a love-crime drama released into limited theaters in 2010, which is based on true events. Starring are, Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst who are excellent as David and Katie. The film is thoroughly engrossing but somewhat frustrating towards the end, only because viewers are denied knowledge of the truth as much as the key figures involved in the real-life case have been. All Good Things was overlooked when it was released because of Blue Valentine, the other film starring Ryan Gosling playing a similar character in a similar tone of film, which received much praise. Although, this film is quite good but could have been developed slightly better. The acting here is great and convincing, both leads play their part well. The story is quite interesting, though the climax doesn't fully feel as authentic and captivating as it could have been.

paul2001sw-1 Andrew Jarecki, director of the acclaimed, ambiguous documentary 'Capturing the Friedmans', returns here to the subject of troubled families, with his account of the life of David Marks. The film must come dangerously close to libel, being based on the real life of Robert Durst, who was twice acquitted of murder (suffice it to say Jarecki does not seem so convinced by his plea of innocence). The film begins by painting a sympathetic portrait, of a man bullied by his tyrannical family, but soon begins showing us a less flattering side. Ulimtatley, the story lacks resolution, and a drama extrapolated from the truth like this is always in danger of falling between two stools: one expects a made-up story to attain different standards to one that is merely representing what happened. There's a high-class cast, but ultimately the film lacks both the cohesion of fiction and the compulsion of truth.

Finbar-1 Let me start real quick by saying this is my first IMDb review, and that I think IMDb is one of the best web sites on the internet.We watched "All Good Things" I think mainly because of the hype about Ryan Gosling, and while I believe he is a good actor he seems to choose parts that are so very slow that they leave the movie quite boring. In All Good Things, he plays a troubles guy who tries to change his life in order to please his father, but not to the same level of pleasure for his wife.We are given little insight into why he is the way he is (other than his father's expectations) or why he does what he does. This leads the viewer to be as frustrated with him as his wife appears to be. The twist at the end also leaves us wondering what the heck really happened, but not in an interesting "make your own conclusions" kind of a way.That said, if you like Mr. Gosling's acting style (and the slow style of his choice in directors) in previous movies such as "Beyond the Pines" and "Drive" (which I liked more than "Good Things"), you might like this one as well.

dromasca 'All Good Things' is the only big screen feature film made until now by director Andrew Jarecki, who seems to have been involved previously with documentary movies, and we can feel this. Although he had for this movie at hands a splendid team of Hollywood actors who did a fine job he did not succeed to turn the juicy crime story upon which the film is based into a real compelling piece of cinema.The story Jarecki is using is the highly publicized and never solved case of the disappearance in the early 80s of the wife of a rich class New Yorker, involved in the murky real-estate business of his family in the center of Manhattan. Twenty years and two more bodies later he was brought in Court, but his guilt was never proved and today he walks free. However the film does not focus on the investigation, but rather provides a convincing (on screen) theory of the way things happen, of the motivation and reasons of the crimes. It's a dark story about moral misery and personal crisis in a family of super-riches. The problem is that it's hard to define and possibly the distributors had a hard time advertising the genre and the story of the film. Crime stories fans will find themselves watching for more than half of the screening time a family drama, romance (the film starts like kind of a 'Love Story') quickly turns into disarray and domestic violence, reality does not necessarily make into cinematographic truth.The best reasons to watch this film despite mixed reviews and not a very high mark on IMDb is however acting. Ryan Gosling can hardly do wrong on my taste, and here he is facing a complex role, in which he accompanies his deeply troubled hero from young age to late maturity, from the picks of the easy life of the New York socialites to the abyss of the life of a fugitive and transvestite. The even better news is that there is even better acting than Gosling's in this film and I refer of course to Kirsten Dunst's role as the loving wife whose dream of marrying the nice and rich guy slowly descends into nightmare, and to the veteran Frank Langella who injects character and complexity in the role of the family father who is much more than a (anti)-moral symbol. At the end of the day and of the film the artistic truth of this story comes from a different place than the factual truth.