Jack Goods

Jack Goods

Favorite films

  • Dune: Part Two
  • Her
  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Interstellar

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  • Paper Towns

    ★½

  • The Florida Project

    ★★★★

  • Six Schizophrenic Brothers

  • Elevation

    ★★

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  • Paper Towns

    Paper Towns

    ★½

    John Green is no modern Shakespeare, but there’s a warm nostalgic comfort to his books — a feeling amplified as I near the end of my 20s. Now a month away from the conclusion of this decade of my life and having not accomplished many of the things I thought I would by now — find my person, start a family, maybe buy a house, discover that deep happiness — there’s something magnetic about coming of age stories where the…

  • The Florida Project

    The Florida Project

    ★★★★

    Shitty people often cultivate the next generation of shitty people, never passing on the social etiquette required to actually break out of a cycle of failure. To me, that’s what The Florida Project is about, though I doubt that’s quite what Sean Baker is going for. Brooklyn Prince as Moonee, one of the better child performances I’ve seen in a long time, beautifully mirrors so many of the negative traits Halley displays. She doesn’t know any better. That’s her only…

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  • The Holdovers

    The Holdovers

    ★★★★½

    When they say they don’t make em like they used to THIS. IS. WHAT. THEY. WANT! Damn.

  • Elevation

    Elevation

    ★★

    The concept was enough to get me to give this a watch, but there is just nothing original here. You’ve seen everything done a million times in a monster/alien/zombie movie, including in many pieces of media that unlike Elevation has some semblance of subtext.

    This still could have been a fun mindless romp if it didn’t have some of the most unnatural and grating dialogue I’ve ever come across. Anthony Mackie was good casting because this feels like if they…