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Then one of the crew met a man named Chris, a do-gooder in the community who lost his home to an electrical fire last year.—Amy Eskind, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026 Gleeson’s casual menace and black sense of humor make for an ideal foil to Cage’s quip-cracking do-gooder.—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 22 May 2026 In addition, the extreme naïveté of the Spanish do-gooder lawyer is an out-of-place cliché in a film whose cinematic potency and multifaceted performances testify to Marrakchi’s strengths.—Jay Weissberg, Variety, 19 May 2026 Amazon is searching for more unsuspecting do-gooders after renewing comedy Jury Duty for a third season.—Peter White, Deadline, 11 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for do-gooder