All Good Things is a 2010 crime drama movie starring Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst and Frank Langella. In All Good Things, Gosling plays David Marks, a member of a wealthy New York real estate family. When Marks marries Katie McCarthy (Dunst), his father, Sanford Marks (Langella), doesn't approve, in part because Katie's family isn't well-to-do. All Good Things is loosely based on the real-life story of Robert Durst. Durst's wife Kathleen vanished in the early 1980s. Her disappearance was never solved. Durst was questioned by authorities in the death of his wife, but no charges were ever filed.http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304173704575578721938259624.html http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/all_good_things/ All Good Things is co-written and directed by Andrew Jarecki (Capturing the Friedmans).http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1285613/#Director The movie, which also stars Philip Baker Hall, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lily Rabe and Kristen Wiig, opened in limited release in U.S. theaters on December 3, 2010.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1175709/ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/all_good_things/

Reviews for All Good Things began coming out several days before the movie's limited release. Overall, reviews were average to poor. On December 4, 2010, All Good Things garnered a 41 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes' "Tomatometer."http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/all_good_things/ The film scored a slightly better 57 out of 100 on Metacritic.com.http://www.metacritic.com/movie/all-good-things

Some movie critics who offered generally favorable reviews of the film, including Sheri Linden of The Hollywood Reporter, noted the strength of the film's acting performances. Linden says that Gosling, Dunst and Langella all deliver "riveting performances." Linden adds that "despite some choppy transitions and a few melodramatic moments that don't work," All Good Things "casts and effective, deepening chill."http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/film-review-good-sharp-unsettling-49621 Peter Travers of Rolling Stone calls the movie a "speculative, spellbinding true-crime story." Travers also praises the acting in the film, saying that Gosling "gets so deep into character you can feel his nerve endings."http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/45905/239157

Film critics who gave All Good Things less favorable reviews seemed to zero in on the movie's plot as a problem. Ian Buckwalter of NPR says of All Good Things: "There's plenty of information on what (might have) happened, but not much thought given to why."http://www.npr.org/2010/12/02/131674635/in-all-good-things-many-a-dark-development Critic Nick Pinkerton of the Village Voice says that while the "case-history script is ever on-message," director Jarecki "ignores the little details that create a credible social reality."http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-12-01/film/all-good-things-true-crime-minus-the-truth/