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Good Grief Reviews
Good Grief asks the question: How do you continue grieving a loved one after they hurt you? Levy only provides a generic answer for whatever reason, but at least he had the good sense to cast a stellar ensemble to carry this project through.
Though lacking the emotional impact intended, Dan Levy’s Good Grief effectively captures the beauty of friendship and the importance of self-discovery after a tragic loss.
There’s something warm and hopeful about Good Grief that wraps around your heart in an odd, comforting way.
Dan Levy delivers a film filled with genuine feelings, even when the situations and the dialogue feel too staged at times, and they might take you out of the film.
It might not roll out the belly laughs, but it will certainly make you chuckle even while you’re emoting deeply.
A multilayered depiction, Good Grief delivers on what its title promises and audiences will find they are richer in experience for it.
Good Grief is a good romantic melodrama... This is not a comedy by any stretch of the imagination.
Levy the actor does not give Levy the director/screenwriter what he needed.
Perhaps, though, this is the kind of filmmaker niche Levy can excel in, as the friend we all know who doesn't take us outside our comfort zones
Good Grief is a bittersweet film, sensitively handled as it masterfully explores the emotions that come with death, infidelity, friendship, love -- in a broader context and of oneself -- and acceptance.
The film centers as much on friendship as it does on grief, particularly as one struggles to process conflicting emotions. Levy's skilled at directing actors, as long as they have robust roles to execute.
This might have been a sterner film if another actor played Marc and Levy applied more scrutiny to the character, but he’s done enough here to establish himself as a filmmaker.
Fans of Schitt's Creek's Dan Levy might have hoped for more from his feature directorial debut, but this drama has enough to make its characters, central ideas, and locations a compelling watch.
Good Grief is aimless, disjointed, and consists of a group of friends you end up having no sympathy for because even though they’re grieving, they spend more time telling you about grief instead of showing you through the actual movie.
Levy shows potential as a director and is able to draw exciting performances from his cast, so perhaps with a little more practice, he can become the next great actor-turned-director.
There’s a near-constant dissonance in the kind of primal emotions that Good Grief is looking to unpack and the devotion to genre aesthetics that it is entirely incapable of ignoring.
If you’ve ever been in a conversation with a friend and wind-up feigning concern while wondering if their rambling will ever end, then you get a sense of what sitting through this film is like.
There are overlong scenes in which characters talk at length, to rather dull effect. The beautiful cinematography helps, though, with London and Paris effortlessly stealing the show.
There are chuckles, whimsy, flirtations and tragic twists. But in the end, though entertaining and breezy, nothing cuts as deep as it should.
The film works thanks to the strengths of its best moments, and for being a film about mourning, it is still breezy enough as a streaming watch.