Rotten Tomatoes
Movies Tv shows RT App News Showtimes
Critics list

Oscar Goff

Tomatometer-approved critic
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.

Publications:

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Obsession (2025) 97% EDIT “The real story here, however, is [Inde] Navarrette, who delivers one of the most fearlessly committed comic-horror performances in recent memory.” – Boston Hassle Mar 21, 2026 Full Review Sugar Rot (2024) EDIT “This is a punk film through and through.” – Boston Hassle Mar 20, 2026 Full Review Buffet Infinity (2025) EDIT “The magic lies in how the cosmic horror rams up against Vaudevillian silly-name comedy, frequently within the same 30-second spot.” – Boston Hassle Mar 20, 2026 Full Review undertone (2025) 73% EDIT “Undertone is one of those films that’s just good enough that it’s frustrating that it’s not better.” – Boston Hassle Mar 13, 2026 Full Review The Ugly Stepsister (2025) 96% 3/4 EDIT “"The Ugly Stepsister" at heart creates a savage satire of the impossible beauty standards imposed upon young women.” – Cambridge Day Mar 11, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 93% 3/4 EDIT “It’s a more inventive use of the "Avatar" premise than anything James Cameron’s come up with, and far cuter.” – Cambridge Day Mar 11, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% EDIT “Too much of it falls flat, and virtually none of it hangs together as a cohesive whole. Yet I also wouldn’t dream of dissuading someone to see it.” – Boston Hassle Mar 7, 2026 Full Review The Love That Remains (2025) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “There is a disarmingly playful sense of humor at work, which manifests in both uncomfortably intimate moments [...] and flamboyant flights of fancy.” – Cambridge Day Feb 20, 2026 Full Review EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) 97% EDIT “Thankfully, the performance itself is truly remarkable— that is, if "performance" is the right word for it.” – Boston Hassle Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 57% 3/4 EDIT “Where "Saltburn" is a dumb movie posing as smart satire, "Heights" makes no bones about its essential lunkheadedness, and, paradoxically, is far smarter for it.” – Cambridge Day Feb 13, 2026 Full Review Magellan (2025) 88% 3.5/4 EDIT “Diaz captures the lush scenery with a painterly eye, slaughter in the foreground, natural beauty behind it.” – Cambridge Day Feb 8, 2026 Full Review Whistle (2025) 63% EDIT “Unfortunately, the deaths here lack the ghoulish invention of the [Final] Destination films.” – Boston Hassle Feb 6, 2026 Full Review Shelter (2026) 65% 2.5/4 EDIT “"Shelter" delivers a workmanlike ass-kicking, too muted to hurt. In other words, it’s a Jason Statham movie.” – Cambridge Day Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Send Help (2026) 93% EDIT “This is Raimi at his most joyously nasty, a blackly comic morality play owing more to EC Comics than Marvel.” – Boston Hassle Jan 30, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 25% 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) 86% 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) 82% 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
No Reviews Yet
Load More