The Good Doctor: Critic Reviews

If "The Good Doctor" isn't a bad movie, it tells only half the story.

The film is anchored and greatly bolstered by Bloom, who delivers a performance of quietly escalating madness.

Daly deftly creates a disturbing, Chabrol-like tension that plays on immediate identification with the handsome medico's lonely, shy vulnerability and slow-building horror at the depths to which his self-delusion can sink.

Whether you take it as a comment on our rote acceptance of authority figures or just a deliciously creepy character study, you'll come away from "The Good Doctor" wanting to keep religiously eating that apple a day.

A creepy, darkly funny bit of entertainment.

Orlando Bloom gives one of his most interesting performances; It's a creepy, effectively chilling piece of work.

Targeting age-old English class consciousness, not contemporary American healthcare woes, the movie is a shrewd commentary on careerism and status.

A solidly constructed little character study of dark romantic bloom commingled with slipping-knot mental instability.

Visually capturing that chemistry between god-in-training and his just rewards silently sums up the film long before the kindest cut of all.

A Dr. Kildare drama gone berserk on meds.

After watching this film you should be doubly determined to stay away from hospitals.

Wants to be a twisty nail-biter, but never creates much suspense or surprise.

... a tale of quiet obsession ... one of those queasy little thrillers, like One-Hour Photo, that'll have you talking back to the screen, shouting, 'No, he wouldn't possibly do THAT!' And then he does.

Daly uses Bloom's chilly exterior to hook you into the often preposterous doings ... It's just plausible enough to give you a good case of the chills.

[VIDEO ESSAY] "The Good Doctor" is a seriously creepy Euro-styled thriller. Regardless of their position on Obamacare, no one who sees this movie will feel any better about being a hospital patient.

Suspenseful and sinister, making one wary of checking into a hospital.

A compelling, character-driven film about a particularly antiseptic form of madness.

It's too bad that the events leading up to it are so ridiculous that they undermine what's otherwise a powerfully disquieting denouement.

Don't allow this doctor to treat you.

Its meaning is unclear. Its vital signs are shaky. And before long, the whole frail thing's on life support, just begging for somebody to pull the plug.

It's a portrait-as-thriller whose fundamental elements are all fine, but whose protagonist just isn't as grippingly complex as the film needs him to be.

Suspense is anemic in this dark hospital drama about a resident getting too intensive in his care for an attractive patient.

The film is an observant examination of cognitive dissonance, the torment felt by a person who is simultaneously holding two completely opposite values.

An intermittently fascinating character study of a plain man who does evil things for selfish reasons.

The Good Doctor is far more content to creep you out than to offer a critique.