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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.

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I Used to Be Funny (2023)

SXSW has, over the last decade, attracted a very specific kind of film

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Oh, Hi! (2025)

2025 has been the year of tonal whiplash, and I’m not even talking about the news cycle.

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Together (2025)

Here’s my rule of thumb: don’t trust a critically acclaimed horror debut.

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F1 (2025)

I will indulge the metaphor that repeatedly clanked around my head as I watched F1

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Happy Feet Two (2011)

Happy Feet Two suffers from a similar ailment to The Witches of Eastwick

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First Love (1939)

It’s not impossible to imagine a world where Deanna Durbin and Judy Garland swapped careers.

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The Thief of Bagdad (1924)

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.

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Sorry, Baby (2025)

Sorry, Baby is an absolute miracle of tone control.

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Loser (2000)

It’s always amusing when a song from a movie’s soundtrack ends up outliving the film itself.