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The Good, the Bad and the Good-Bad (Movie)

The Daily · The New York Times

Sep 13, 2026 · 38 min

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When it comes to movies we love, there are the artistic masterpieces and there are the foot-stomping crowd pleasers. But there’s another particular kind of beloved movie, the one that makes our friends groan, but that we rewatch incessantly; the one that we can quote line for line, even as we giggle at the actors’ performances; the one that we’d say is great, but that we might not say is good. These are the kinds of movies that Maya Salam, a pop culture writer at The New York Times, covers in her monthly column, The Good-Bad .

This episode is a celebration of good-bad movies, timed to the…

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