The Goods: Film Reviews

Nouvelle Vague (2025)

Nouvelle Vague (2025)

Among the great and influential directors of the past thirty years, Richard Linklater is the one with the least neurosis.
Mar 13, 2026
Mary Poppins (1964)

Mary Poppins (1964)

There is a version of this review where I try to explain, analytically, why Mary Poppins works.
Mar 10, 2026
Bugonia (2025)

Bugonia (2025)

I’ll be honest: I’ve spent the better part of a decade dodging Yorgos Lanthimos movies.
Mar 9, 2026
Rear Window (1954)

Rear Window (1954)

Cinema is twenty-four pictures per second with synchronized sound, and somehow it builds vast universes inside our imaginations.
Mar 4, 2026

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