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By Jared Mobarak (867) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 20 Sep 2020

The entirety of Good Joe Bell is an awakening not for those who actively harm at-risk youth like Jadin, but those who don’t realize the implicit…

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By Kate Erbland (681) for IndieWire (3,631) on 20 Sep 2020

While formulaic on its face, Green’s film resists the sort of obvious cinematic catharsis expected of such a story, resulting in a final…

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By Benjamin Lee (469) for The Guardian (2,969) on 20 Sep 2020

Good Joe Bell is a generous film about an outsider travelling across the country realising the importance of listening and learning from others…

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By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 20 Sep 2020

An open-hearted, unapologetically emotional story of a man struggling to come to terms with what happened to his son and with his own complicity…

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By Mike Ryan (265) for Uproxx (697) on 20 Sep 2020

What’s remarkable about Good Joe Bell is Wahlberg plays the role in such a nuanced way, by the end of the movie you want that rousing speech…

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By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 20 Sep 2020

Good Joe Bell could have been schmaltzy, simplistic, too hungry for uplift…

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By Marshall Shaffer (93) for Slashfilm (971) on 20 Sep 2020

Green’s humanistic stamp is evident when Wahlberg expresses a soulful sentiment or denunciation of narrow-minded thinking, yet there’s…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 20 Sep 2020

Because Good Joe Bell spends so much time wondering how this father will change and grow, it doesn’t concentrate enough on his son, who is…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Sep 2020

Wahlberg, delivering a performance that feels like community service, just isn’t up to driving a drama whose conflict is almost entirely…

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By Robert Daniels (336) for The Playlist (3,871) on 20 Sep 2020

A brisk film that could do with twenty more minutes, Green’s “Good Joe Bell” has its heart in the right place, but the limited gaze the…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 15 Sep 2020

Green's grasp of this tender, family-focused story shows equal restraint and compassion, and mastery of a tricky structure…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Sep 2020

A movie like this would be a good start, if this were 1980…

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