I’m always interested when great directors decide to alienate their audience, and I have to believe that’s the game Luca Guadagnino is playing here.
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After the Hunt (2025)
Tag: New Release
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Twinless (2025)
I almost don’t want to review Twinless because I want you to go in with as little context as possible.
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Good Boy (2025)
Good Boy is a slight but fun idea for a film, the kind of shower brainstorm that rarely makes it to the page, let alone the screen.
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Lurker (2025)
In the attention economy, celebrity is both the means and the ends.
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Hedda (2025)
Hedda is a movie I can easily imagine a small subset of viewers declaring the best of the year, and I am very sure I am not one of those people.
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Frankenstein (2025)
Guillermo del Toro has finally dragged his dream project Frankenstein across the finish line, a decades-in-the-making adaptation that arrives with the weight of cinema prestige and awards expectations on its sewn-together shoulders.
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Him (2025)
I’ll never fully understand why some stylish, vibes-only movies capture the movie-geek zeitgeist while others get dumped at the curb.
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The Woman in Cabin 10 (2025)
I haven’t read any of Ruth Ware’s books, but my wife has, and she says they are all begging for adaptation.
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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.