The Goods: Film Reviews

The Goods send off 2025 with an epic and somewhat discursive look at the history of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas

“The darkness drops again; but now I knowThat twenty centuries of stony sleepWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”–W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming,” 1919

I am clenching my jaw trying to resist making the obvious joke about the runtime.

Paul Thomas Anderson showed up in the mid-’90s as a wunderkind and a walking contradiction

Dan and Brian approach the end of 2025 pondering what makes a “movie year” — how to measure and rank it, what they’ve watched on the podcast, and what eras of film history they’ve under- and overrepresented.