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Oscar Goff

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Biography:

Oscar Goff is the film editor and senior critic for Boston Hassle. He previously served as film editor for the free monthly newspaper the Boston Compass, and his work has appeared in WBUR’s The ARTery. He spends his time haunting independent movie theaters, and still carries all his old video rental cards just in case.

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Movies TV Shows
Mercy (2026) 24% 1.5/4 EDIT “This may be the first pro-dystopian science fiction film.” – Cambridge Day Jan 26, 2026 Full Review The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) 88% 3.5/4 EDIT “"Ann Lee" is an extravagant, frequently sensuous film about austerity and celibacy, a story of faith and fervor told from a secular point of view. The result, as strange as it is, is utterly entrancing” – Cambridge Day Jan 18, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “The Bone Temple is everything a zombie sequel should be: raucous, funny, surprisingly smart, and bloody enough to make you avert your eyes into your popcorn.” – Boston Hassle Jan 16, 2026 Full Review OBEX (2025) 96% 3/4 EDIT “As absurd as it all is, we sense that Birney means every word of it.” – Cambridge Day Jan 15, 2026 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 81% EDIT “It’s not as audacious as some of the filmmaker’s most celebrated pieces, but it remains warm, funny, and altogether lovely. ” – Boston Hassle Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “There is an underlying humanity to Marty Supreme, something that runs deeper than Gems’ film-noir-on-speed nihilism.” – Boston Hassle Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Death Race 2000 (1975) 80% EDIT “If Death Race 2000 is trash, then it’s really great trash.” – Boston Hassle Dec 19, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “It’s one of the best films of the year, tackling deadly serious subject matter with a wry playfulness which will keep you off balance from its first scene to its last.” – Boston Hassle Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) 84% EDIT “Reflection in a Dead Diamond is as gleefully hyperbolic as its title, but it is made with more craft and artistry than a dozen 007 epics.” – Boston Hassle Dec 5, 2025 Full Review Jay Kelly (2025) 75% 3/4 EDIT “Even if "Jay Kelly" is an exercise in self-indulgence, it is exceptionally pleasurable and well-crafted self-indulgence, with a playfulness that takes the edge off its maudlin overtones.” – Cambridge Day Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% 2/4 EDIT “The film as a whole is suffocatingly saccharine, wringing every drop of pathos with a nonstop, maddeningly twinkly score.” – Cambridge Day Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% 2.5/4 EDIT “Where the first film was buoyed by the momentum of Elphaba’s transformation into witchiness, the second remains largely one-note, its characters stuck in a turgid state of conflict and angst, vamping for time until the inevitable denouement.” – Cambridge Day Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Shelby Oaks (2023) 55% 2.5/4 EDIT “The resulting film certainly has its moments, but it’s paper-thin and frustratingly unfocused.” – Cambridge Day Nov 20, 2025 Full Review The Running Man (2025) 62% 3/4 EDIT “It’s madcap pulp, attuned to the times, as Richards steels himself against spiraling poverty, mindless media saturation and masked fascist thugs.” – Cambridge Day Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% EDIT “Die My Love is not a horror movie in the strictest sense of the word, but will still likely leave you in a daze.” – Boston Hassle Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 91% EDIT “No new ground is broken, but to fans of the movement it will be close to irresistible.” – Boston Hassle Oct 31, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% 2/4 EDIT “For a film about a performer as energetic as Springsteen, “Deliver Me From Nowhere” is strangely dour and listless.” – Cambridge Day Oct 24, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% EDIT “For those on its wavelength, Bugonia is one of the best and funniest movies of the year, nimbly written and effortlessly suspenseful.” – Boston Hassle Oct 24, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% EDIT “The film is discomfitingly glib in the face of extremely serious subject matter, yet too unremittingly dour to have very much fun with.” – Boston Hassle Oct 22, 2025 Full Review From Beyond (1986) 74% EDIT “From Beyond has never gotten the recognition of Re-Animator, but for my money it’s every bit as entertaining, and far more ambitious as a film.” – Boston Hassle Oct 20, 2025 Full Review Deathstalker (2025) 86% EDIT “I can’t say I laughed as hard as I have at some other Kostanski films, but I had a great big smile on my face from beginning to end.” – Boston Hassle Oct 12, 2025 Full Review TRON: Ares (2025) 53% 2.5/4 EDIT “If one is able to look past the rote human (and cyborg) interactions, they’re left with a pretty great Nine Inch Nails planetarium laser show, and there are far worse ways than that to spend an afternoon.” – Cambridge Day Oct 11, 2025 Full Review Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025) 77% 3/4 EDIT “It’s a tricky role requiring ridiculous humor and utter heartbreak, and Tonatiuh dances across the high wire as easily as Molina’s Hollywood dream avatar. ” – Cambridge Day Oct 11, 2025 Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% 3/4 EDIT “It’s a grade-A suspense thriller, even if you find yourself watching with a lump in your throat. ” – Cambridge Day Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Happyend (2024) 98% 3/4 EDIT “The world may be spinning into dystopia, but “Happyend” suggests the kids just may be all right.” – Cambridge Day Oct 4, 2025 Full Review
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