All Good Things

2010 Directed by Andrew Jarecki

The perfect love story. Until it became the perfect crime.

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.

Ryan Gosling Kirsten Dunst Frank Langella Lily Rabe Philip Baker Hall Michael Esper Diane Venora Nick Offerman Kristen Wiig Stephen Kunken John Cullum Maggie Kiley Liz Stauber Marion McCorry Mia Dillon Tom Kemp Trini Alvarado Tom Riis Farrell Bruce Norris Francie Swift David Margulies Glenn Fleshler Stephen Singer Francis Guinan Ellen Sexton Ashlie Atkinson Pamala Tyson William Jackson Harper

Alternative Titles

Crimen En Familia, 好事不断, All Beauty Must Die, Love & Secrets, Véres románc

drama mystery thriller crime romance

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Popular reviews

Review by Nathan Rabin ★★

Does not include this film.
Review by lauren ★★½

i know this movie was about murder but seeing nick offerman without a mustache was the most disturbing thing
Review by Adam Cook ★★ 8

The story of billionaire and property heir, Robert Durst, is a fascinating one full of twists and unresolved questions which makes this loose retelling of his life and possible murder of his wife all the more disappointing. All Good Things, named after the health food shop the pair opened in the ‘70s, is little more than a TV crime-movie-of-the-week with an A-list cast as Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst struggle to elevate the lacklustre material.
Gosling stars as David Marks (the film remains reasonably faithful to the events but still changes the character names), a troubled man who is heir to a New York property fortune. He marries a young student (Dunst) before she goes missing in 1982 under dubious…
Review by <Todd> ★★

"What the hell are you looking at?! Eat your salad!" - Katie's Friend,
I'm not a gun guy but I'm assuming you shouldn't store guns and ammo in the warming drawer of an oven?
All Good Things is a theory of the three murders committed by Robert Durst, some of the theory has since been disproven. It's kind of shot and produced, like a Lifetime scorned woman movie except that it stars Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Frank Lagnella and Lily Rabe. The script is pretty bad and awkwardness is everywhere given that this seems to be the director's first and only attempt at drama.
Also, I think I found something that Ryan Gosling can't do well, act like an insecure guy without charisma. He's doing the "pretty/ugly" girl here and it just doesn't work that well.
Not a recommend, just watch the Jinx instead...or the wikipedia entry on Robert Durst.
Review by lucy ★★★½

this was so much better than i expected!
Review by jenna 🍋 ★★

UM THE DOG??????! IT DIDN’T DO ANYTHING WRONG! I AM UPSET
Review by Keith ★★½

Truth is stranger than fiction, so it's nearly impossible to cram the bizarre facts of Robert Durst's now infamous life into a feature-length drama that doesn't seem needlessly convoluted and unbelievable (even with an "inspired by real events" promise).
So now this dramatization exists as an inessential but interesting companion piece to The Jinx that doesn't totally stand up on its own.
Review by Terése Flynn ★½ 1

... come to an end. And I wish this movie would have ended sooner, because this is really really bad.
It starts off OK , and I say OK in relation to how it all turns into a hell of a mess. But our love couple never gets lovable, and Ryan Gosling's character David has at least 3 totally different personalities throughout the film without me getting a real grip of why. And the only thing that's "spellbinding" about the story is how they could make it this uninteresting. It didn't bore me though, the slow pace was quite nice and the performances are solid. But it was, what can I say? ... Stupid. Yeah, that's the word I'm looking for. And ugly. It was really ugly looking.
Well, there you have it. A really stupid review. Now I can leave this film behind me and move on.
Review by Andy Summers ★★★

Gosling, Dunst, Langella, this could have been so much better. Mystery, conspiracy and intrigue galore as this take on the life of accused murderer Robert Durst is brought to the screen. Name changes and some very ambiguous overtones provide just enough detail to hook you in. Gosling's mentally unstable protagonist is just that, a nutter. Cross-dressing, killing pooches and numerous others misdemeanors show Gosling as yet again very flexible. Miles away from a heartthrob, this is another of those roles he seems especially keen to do. Outsiders displaying fragile cracks in their psyche and in this case with homicidal tendencies, Gosling does like complex characters.
Set in the seventies with more twists than a pretzel factory, this does need concentration.…
Review by lucas ★★★½

fun fact : so this is a biopic right, three years ago that man was interviewed and during it he went to the toilets and said to himself while peeing that indeed he killed his wife but his microphone wasn't off:/
Review by meagan ★★

honestly wasn’t even paying attention this 100% was a ryan gosling thirst watch and he didn’t even look that great
Review by Vanina ★★ 2

For all intents and purposes, 'All Good things' served as a first draft for Jarecki's HBO documentary series 'The Jinx'. Apparently Robert Durst enjoyed this fictionalisation of his life and alleged murders so much that he contacted Jarecki and agreed to be interviewed.
I've only seen the first episode of 'The Jinx', and decided to watch this film without realising it was based on Durst (for all of 5 minutes). When 'The Jinx' is one of those series people talk about because they hardly believe it's real, how much chance does a film like this stand before it becomes a case of truth being stranger than fiction?
As if Jarecki realised this, he includes all of Durst's strange behaviour, but…

Recent reviews

Review by benny ★★★½

old Ryan Gosling is the creepiest thing I've ever seen
Review by paola ★★★½

not him in real life confessing the murders in a documentary
Review by andie-april ★★★★★

ryan gosling wearing a dress fucking me when
Review by AndrewTeix ★★

How did they convince Robert Durst to do a commentary track for this!?
Review by _Anth ★★★

This could have all been avoided if they just talked about having kids before they got married.
Review by halfwayhustlin ★★½

did i just watch a lifetime biopic? two of my favorite actors were given a poor script but that did not stop them from giving great performances!

as a proud member of the Official Ryan Gosling Fan Club, i would like to announce that i have now seen every Ryan Gosling movie, ever. 🥳
Review by Isaac Ezban ★★★

Andrew Jarecki (el director de mi documental favorito #CapturingTheFriedmans ) vuelve a mostrar su obsesion por el crimen, la familia y los secretos con #AllGoodThings...
Por más que no es un documental, cuando acaba #AllGoodThings sientes igual que al final de #CapturingTheFriedmans : WTF just happened?
Review by ella 🌙 ★★★★

This was a weird film in that it was half based on a true story and then half an unsubstantiated dramatisation of a conspiracy theory. If you read up on the real case you see that they missed out a lot of (what I would call) crucial pieces of information. I think you either need to tell the true story, or tell a fictional tale, you can't do both at once.
Still an enjoyable watch and a surprise appearance from Kristen Wiig stole the show: "What the hell are you looking at ? Eat your sAlaD."
Review by ✨ Felisha ✨ ★★★

Film 065 of 100 of my 100° Through my Watchlist(s) list
Nick Offerman → Lily Rabe
Great cast. Weird choices. Dreadfully slow. Odd Dialogue.
Just watch The Jinx instead.
[089/365 new (to me) movies in 2020]
Review by Unofficial Gregg Turkington ★★★★★

5 Bags of Popcorn
Review by Ana ★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Katie Marks:

I've never been closer to anyone, and I don't know you at all.
Review by Chrisminogue Chrisminogue ★★

The film is well acted, intriguing & well characterised, however its unfocused, dreary, cheesy & predictable. (36%)