“All Good Things” isn’t all good. The star performances are the best things in this fact-based murder mystery set among the super-rich. In its resonance and effectiveness, however, the low-budget indie project seems better suited to the Lifetime or A&E channels than to the big screen. Barely disguised with invented names, it dramatizes the sensational case of Robert Durst, scion of one of New York City’s largest real estate development dynasties. Since the 1970s, he has been implicated in the disappearance and/or killings of three people. Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst and Frank Langella are accomplished feature film principals. You can understand why they may have wanted to challenge themselves with this material. Each of the three characters they get to play has complexity and is grounded in the reality of a still-infamous scandal. You’d rarely find such tricky roles in a major Hollywood studio picture.
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