Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
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.
All Good Things reconstructs the Durst case with reasonable dramatic tension and committed performances from Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst, but the film struggles to transcend its true-crime procedural roots. The plot engages while covering the romance and deterioration but loses momentum in its latter half. Gosling delivers an unsettling, internalized performance though the material underserves him. Cinematography is competent period filmmaking without distinction. The true-crime narrative framework is familiar territory, and the unresolved real-world case means the ending feels deliberately inconclusive but dramatically unsatisfying rather than artfully ambiguous.