Matt Goldberg

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Favorite films

  • The Graduate
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
  • The Fountain
  • The Iron Giant

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  • Doctor X

    ★★★★

  • The Housemaid

    ★★★★

  • Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

  • Little Darlings

    ★★★½

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Doctor X

Doctor X

1932
★★★★ Liked Watched

First off, I’m stunned at how good the restoration of the technicolor version looks. I’ve never seen a fully color movie that’s this old before, and it absolutely pops off the screen, which feels perfect for the pulpy sci-fi crime story. There’s a part of me that wishes the whole movie was Xavier just opening rooms at his institute for the detectives and saying, “And here’s another weird guy doing questionable science experiments.” But I like where this one goes even if I think Lee Tracy makes for an awkward comic/heroic lead.

The Rip

The Rip

2026
★★★ Watched

Not a bad movie, but it hints at being a much darker film than it ends up being.

More over at TheWrap.

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The Zone of Interest

The Zone of Interest

2023
★★ Watched

Maybe it’s because when you’re Jewish you tend to learn about the Holocaust at a younger age and you keep learning more as life goes on, and maybe Glazer is trying to reach a gentile audience that can’t grasp the banality of evil without seeing it play out. But for me, the banality of evil is the only way to understand such atrocities, and depicting that banality for 100 minutes doesn’t add anything beyond Arendt’s famous and straightforward assessment of…

Babygirl

Babygirl

2024
★★ Watched

Dom/sub erotica for people who think ketchup is too spicy.