Fresh
By all accounts, Taylor's play was a more experimental piece than this film, in which the production values, like the acting, veer between the acceptable and the stodgy.
Dave Calhoun, Time Out
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Overview
When John Halder's latest novel is enlisted by powerful political figures in the Nazi party to push their agenda, his career and social standing instantly advance. But after learning of the Reich's horrific plans for the future and the devastating effects they will have on people close to him, John must decide whether or not to take a stand and risk losing everything.
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33%
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Fresh
The subject -- self-deception and failure of nerve in an unjust world -- is too messy and horrible to laugh away.
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture
Rotten
Good contributes very little to a conundrum that has occupied historians and psychologists for half a century.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Fresh
Good has a stagy fustiness, but it's worth seeing for Mortensen, who makes this study of 
 a 'good German' look creepily contemporary. He shows us the horror 
 of ignorance.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Rotten
It definitely wouldn't have done anyone involved with Good any harm to ask what relevance heavy-handed history plays have to do with the world of today.
Noel Murray, AV Club
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