By Mathew Kumar

Today’s Listings:
2:15 p.m. – Tokyo Sonata (AMC 7)
2:30 p.m. – Short Cuts Canada Programme 5 (AMC 3)
2:45 p.m. – Good (Scotiabank 1)
3:30 p.m. – Liverpool (Varsity 5) Review
5:00 p.m. – Pontypool (Varsity 6:00 p.m. – Coopers Camera (AMC 6)
6:15 p.m. – Not Quite Hollywood (Varsity 2)
8:00 p.m. – Achilles and the Tortoise (pictured above; Varsity 8:30 p.m. – Vinyan (AMC 7) Review
9:00 p.m. – The Dungeon Masters (AMC 9) Review
9:00 p.m. – Deadgirl (AMC 6) Review
11:59 p.m. – Sexykiller (Ryerson)
After the jump, a review for today’s screening of Good.

Good (Vicente Amorim)
It’s been a good long while since we’ve seen as rankly amateur a performance as Jodie Whittaker in Good. Playing the role of the student (and then wife) of Viggo Mortensen’s meek professor and the catalyst behind his foolish decision to join the Nazis to further his career, she actively ruins every scene she’s in, which makes Good rather a hard film to like. Not that it’d be any great shakes with a better actress—it’s just a very simple, spelled-out-for-the-audience morality tale about how being good doesn’t always mean you’re doing right. The film is averagely pretty, the performances other than Whittaker are (ahem) “good,” but the sucker punch ending—though faithful to the original play—doesn’t live up to the potential of the set-up within the form of cinema. Not good; not even average, really. 2/5
Good plays today at the Scotiabank 1 at 2:45 p.m..