73
Metascore
11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisSwerving from predictable to confounding, dreamy to demented, artful to awkward, this genre-twisting hybrid from Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra links art house and slaughterhouse with unexpected success.
- 90Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayLos Angeles TimesNoel MurrayThis is a different kind of monster movie, no doubt. It’s beautiful and magical, and as aware of the real world as it is of classic Hollywood. Good Manners is a haunting tale of love — and the burdens that come with it.
- 83The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThe A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThere’s nothing especially wrong with the arty horror movie that Good Manners becomes, mind you, and the metamorphosis (unexpected, for those who haven’t read a review or seen the poster image, anyway) offers pleasures of its own.
- 83The PlaylistOliver LytteltonThe PlaylistOliver LytteltonPulling off an ambitious mash-up of genres like Good Manners is no easy feat — that Dutra and Rojas pull it off so successfully suggests we’ll be hearing a lot more from them down the road.
- 80Village VoiceSerena DonadoniVillage VoiceSerena DonadoniRojas and Dutra have created a singular fable where anxiety and fear are directed inward, even when the danger is all too real.
- 80Screen DailyWendy IdeScreen DailyWendy IdeGenre defying and genuinely unexpected, this intriguing urban fairytale takes the mythology of the werewolf story and uses it as a prism through which to view contemporary Brazilian society. Thematically rich, it weaves together fantasy horror elements with commentaries on class, race, sexuality and motherhood.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungThe Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungThe first hour is the strongest, graced as it is by Estiano's nuanced performance as a conventional-seeming young woman who gradually and very sympathetically reveals her inner self after welcoming Clara into her life.
- 70VarietyJay WeissbergVarietyJay WeissbergClass, desire, motherhood, responsibility to society — all these themes are worked in, to varying degrees. Yet balancing the film’s two halves is less successful, and certain shifts between humor and dead-seriousness don’t quite work.
- 67The Film StageLeonardo GoiThe Film StageLeonardo GoiFor a first half so rich in plot, subtext and genres, it feels somehow frustrating to see Good Manners’s potential stall a little as the feature enters its second part.
- 38Slant MagazineDiego SemereneSlant MagazineDiego SemereneThe film is a rebellion of surfaces that never quite reaches, or emanates from, the underpinning roots of its fable.