Dan and Brian count down their top 10 movie endings, with the proviso that 5 of them must be movies they’ve discussed on The Goods and 5 of them must be movies they have not discussed previously.
Dan and Brian discuss The Usual Suspects, that famous purveyor of narrative misdirection.
Dan and Brian are joined by Stephanie Bendoraitis to discuss the delightful fantasy comedy The Princess Bride.
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Hamnet (2025)
The world needs weepies.
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The Perfect Neighbor (2025)
It’s not often you can honestly describe a film as both “exploitative” and “restrained,” but The Perfect Neighbor lives in an unsettling overlap — and gets a lot of its magnetic power from the fact that it pushes past tasteful boundaries in some areas pulls back in others.
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Sentimental Value (2025)
Every time a Scandinavian director gets praised for making a film “reminiscent of Ingmar Bergman,” I brace myself for two hours of immaculate misery and a big, chilly lesson about how people are flawed and feelings are difficult.
Dan and Brian kick off 2026 discussing a little-seen, time-hopping, breakup musical starring Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick.
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Wicked: For Good (2025)
In 2006, Pitchfork published a review of the album Shine On by Jet with a 0.0 score.
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Wicked (2024)
Imagine me trying, through sheer force of will like Tim Robinson in I Think You Should Leave, to push this into “Good” territory.
Here is my OFCS Awards nominations ballot for 2025.