2025 · comedy · fantasy
Good Fortune
Directed by Aziz Ansari1h 37m2025
A well-meaning but rather inept angel named Gabriel meddles in the lives of a struggling gig worker and a wealthy capitalist.
Our read: Good Fortune (2025) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
Watching Good Fortune tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
?
Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
More info & search links
How Good Fortune feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want Keanu-as-angel comfort comedy about gig-work inequality tonight.”
Skip it tonight — You want pure slapstick without R-rated edges or class-politics sermonizing.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like Good Fortune, with why →
Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
Pick tonight's film →