The Goods: Film Reviews
I am not well-read on the dramatic theory of romantic comedy, but one of my beliefs as a movie lover is that the genre works best when it culminates in not just the union of two partners, but the marriage of two ideologically opposed worldviews that, against all odds, find compromise or even synthesis.
Gun to your head, what is the funniest film of your lifetime?
Christopher Nolan is not the type of filmmaker to make directly introspective works.
Has there ever been a movie made more interesting by its final five minutes than The Usual Suspects?
I grew up in a Notre Dame household.
When I was in college I took a course on the history of crime films.
There’s an interesting case to be made that Aladdin is the most influential non-CGI animated picture of the last 50 years.
I might be biased because it came out a few days after my 16th birthday, but Spider-Man 2 is perhaps my favorite popcorn movie of the 21st-century
I’m going to open this review discussing some of the flaws of Jurassic Park — sorry, 17-year-old me; Jurassic Park does indeed have flaws
Sometimes my critical faculties are short-circuited and I can only gush. Here goes.