The Goods: Film Reviews
In the spring of 2020, in the early days of the COVID pandemic and following the wet thud that was the ending of Game of Thrones, audiences were craving something to fill that niche in the landscape of Peak TV.
Election often appears on lists of the greatest teen movies ever made, but I wonder whether Alexander Payne’s 1999 film can even be called a teen film.
Maestro is an excellent piece of biopic pageantry, which I very much mean as a backhanded compliment.
As someone who loves both It’s a Wonderful Life and high-concept slashers, there was no way I was not going to watch It’s a Wonderful Knife.
Anyone But You is a bit phoned in, which is simultaneously disappointing and also beside the point.
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The Nightmare Before Christmas is the ultimate melancholy holiday vibes movie, and frankly one of cinema’s great vibes movies, period.
“Abortion satire” is pretty much the opposite of my ideal pitch for a film.
There are a bunch of ways to evaluate the artistic achievement of a film.
I have to imagine that the end of The Raid 2’s release cycle was an existentially scary moment for Gareth Evans.