Out of all the films I’ve reviewed for The Goods, I’m not sure there’s a single one where my watching was more compromised than Barbarian.
Weapons (2025)

Out of all the films I’ve reviewed for The Goods, I’m not sure there’s a single one where my watching was more compromised than Barbarian.
SXSW has, over the last decade, attracted a very specific kind of film
2025 has been the year of tonal whiplash, and I’m not even talking about the news cycle.
Here’s my rule of thumb: don’t trust a critically acclaimed horror debut.
I will indulge the metaphor that repeatedly clanked around my head as I watched F1
Happy Feet Two suffers from a similar ailment to The Witches of Eastwick
It’s not impossible to imagine a world where Deanna Durbin and Judy Garland swapped careers.
It takes a special breed of actor for the name alone to be a brand and a promise to the viewer, but Douglas Fairbanks achieved that during his career.
Sorry, Baby is an absolute miracle of tone control.
It’s always amusing when a song from a movie’s soundtrack ends up outliving the film itself.