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Movie Review: All Good Things

Her Campus Placeholder Avatar Emily Estep
Her Campus Placeholder Avatar Rebekah Meiser
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Ohio U chapter.

Starring Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst, All Good Things is based on the most notorious unsolved alleged murder mystery in the history of New York. It’s about the questionably psycho David Marks (Gosling), the heir to a very shady real estate fortune, and his wife Katie Marks (Dunst), whose disappearance has never been solved. Gosling and Dunst are phenomenal as the heavily troubled couple in a film that is compelling at the very least.
 
All Good Thingsis like a grown-up version of the movie Fear, if Fearwas scarier, based on true events, took place over many years, and didn’t have Mark Wahlberg. The film’s creepy tone is what keeps it entertaining from the very beginning. All Good Thingsstarts out like a strange drama but with an urgent feeling immediately irking the audience. The “this happened in real life aspect” only serves to build the tension sharply.
 
Most of the film revolves around the development of David Marks’s character. Just enough is revealed about him early on for him to seem strange, but still reliable. David’s character is built just slowly enough for his transition into crazy murderer to be seamless. Never does this process feel stalled or rushed. The character of Katie Marks is portrayed skillfully by Kirsten Dunst, who acts just pitiful enough for her character to be likable. At some points, she comes off as kind of whiny, so it’s close. But overall, her character is easy to empathize with, and she quickly becomes a heroine.
 
Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst give strong performances in All Good Things, an eerie, little film about allegedly real events. The original pacing and mildly crazy plot makes it fun to watch. I guarantee that if you see this film, you’ll be desperately hitting up Wikipedia afterwards. 4/5
 
All Good Thingswill be playing in the Athena Cinema until January 27th.

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Rebekah Meiser is a senior studying Magazine Journalism at Ohio University, with a split specialization in Italian and Art History. Like many Italians, she is obnoxiously proud of her heritage and fully embraces it by consuming embarrassing amounts of pasta, bread and cheese. She currently owes a scary amount of money to the government, but continues to masochistically check Net-a-Porter and Urban Outfitters online for beautiful items that she lusts but cannot afford. Rebekah goes to school in the middle of some of the best cornfields in Ohio. Although she finds the location less than ideal, she has become an avid star-gazer thanks to the unpolluted sky. A true lover of fashion, her friends make fun of her for playing dress up as often as she does, but she’s not one to be discouraged. Rebekah also loves to run (read: alternate between jogging and walking), read fashion blogs, bake, and read magazines (of which she owns a forest-worth). She hopes to live and work in New York City after she graduates in the spring.