The Goods: Film Reviews
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.
In 2006, Pitchfork published a review of the album Shine On by Jet with a 0.0 score.
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.
The Goods send off 2025 with an epic and somewhat discursive look at the history of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas
“The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
–W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming,” 1919
I am clenching my jaw trying to resist making the obvious joke about the runtime.
Paul Thomas Anderson showed up in the mid-’90s as a wunderkind and a walking contradiction
Dan and Brian approach the end of 2025 pondering what makes a “movie year” — how to measure and rank it, what they’ve watched on the podcast, and what eras of film history they’ve under- and overrepresented.