I don't need fast-paced movies, nor light and bright ones, so when I say that this one was slow and dark, know where it's coming from. I love a good moody movie, but with this one, if there hadn't been voiceover during some of it, I would have fast-forwarded through most of the scenes with no conversation. Or better yet, have chosen something else at the library. There have got to be better movies about rich, dysfunctional families and intrigue, and better vehicles for Kirsten Dunst (whose facial expressions were impressively subtle, IMHO) and Ryan Gosling. However, seeing Kristen Wiig and and Nick Offerman in such different roles from their normal persona was entertaining, but their scenes were incidental. On a side note, I wonder if anyone on set called Kirsten or Kristen by the wrong name?

Based on a notorious unsolved murder case in New York, David Marks (Ryan Gosling) is the son of high power landlord Sanford Marks (Frank Langella). They own half of Time Square, the more seedy half. When David married Katie (Kirsten Dunst), they happily moved out to the country to run their organic food store. Eventually they abandon the failing food store, and he reluctantly joins the family business. He starts to change. She can't divorce him because he has no money of his own. She would get nothing from the divorce unless she could find something to hold over the family.The pacing is slow. Andrew Jarecki is a first time director, and lacks the skills to pump up the drama. Both Gosling and Dunst put in good performances. The movie just doesn't have the tension that it is suppose to. It probably spent too much time as the happy couple in the first half of the movie.

Charlton Alonso played the role of Young Daniel. Too cute! Trying to link the IMDb for him... He did not receive credit for the role. He played the brother of Young David. Young David was played by Tristan Comeau. Tristan did receive credit for the role. The boys were in the scene of the birthday party flashback. Charlton is getting on a horse and shooting his mom with a fake gun. He is also playing tennis and swimming in a pool with his brother and mother. He is seen as the only actor on the screen for parts of the flashback. He was also linked to the IMDb page for the movie. Charlton did not receive any credit at the end of the movie. However, would it be possible to please link him now for credit on his IMDb page. He has established film credits already and would be so appreciative if he could get linked to the movie's IMDb page. Thank you so much!!!

'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.