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The Bad Guys 2 (2025)

You may remember The Bad Guys as DreamWorks Animation’s cross-species stab at introducing kids to heist movie tropes.

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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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F1 (2025)

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

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Sorry, Baby (2025)

Sorry, Baby is an absolute miracle of tone control.

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KPop Demon Hunters (2025)

I am skeptical of platitudes hastily awarded to any animated feature premiering on Netflix in recent years.

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Eddington (2025)

On film social media, much virtual ink has been spilled anointing Eddington a future cult classic:

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Materialists (2025)

Celine Song was presumably given a pretty wide creative runway, plus access to budget and talent, to make her second film following the buzzy Best Picture nominee Past Lives.

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How to Train Your Dragon (2025)

The 2025 How to Train Your Dragon film is a so-called “live action remake” of a beloved animated film (a.k.a. “LARM” if you’re a goober), but it is not like Snow White or Pinocchio for a couple of reasons.

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On Swift Horses (2024)

Read even a few articles about the movie business and you’ll inevitably encounter lamentations of the disappearing middle class of cinema.

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The Surfer (2024)

The American International Pictures beach party movies of the mid-1960s almost always featured some wealthy, middle-aged businessman trying to scoop up beachfront property for self-enrichment, much to the annoyance of the surfing teenagers.