The rise of national socialism in Germany should not be regarded as a conspiracy of madmen. Millions of "good" people found themselves in a society spiralling into terrible chaos. A film about then, which illuminates the terrors of now.
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,
31 Dec 2008
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,
14 Jan 2009
rotten:
Good contributes very little to a conundrum that has occupied historians and psychologists for half a century.
– Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
16 Jan 2009
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,
20 Jan 2009
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.