Pinch of Dirt

Pinch of Dirt

When girlhood and toxic masculinity collide in the woods

'Good One' Review: The cinematography is gorgeous, the soundtrack exquisite, the story spare and fine, like a stage play.

Aug 10, 2024
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As someone who has spent a fair bit of time hiking in the Catskills, the opening shots of “Good One” were beautifully, achingly familiar: a still pond framed by trees; an eastern red-spotted newt clambering over the forest floor1; the disjointed but slithery movement of a millipede; two butterflies flitting around a stack of river rocks; the moon. I inst…

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