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, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/the-good-bad" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Good-Bad</a>.This episode is a celebration of good-bad movies, timed to the release of “Practical Magic 2,” the long-awaited sequel to the 1998 cult film that Salam called “a bubbling cauldron of plot holes and tones.” Our host Rachel Abrams talks to Salam about the joys of loving a movie despite (or because of) its flaws. Then, they’re joined by The Times’s canon editor, Gilbert Cruz, and Taffy Brodesser-Akner, a Times Magazine writer, to discuss the best of good-bad cinema.On Today’s Episode:<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/maya-salam" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Maya Salam</a> covers pop culture for The New York Times.<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/gilbert-cruz" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gilbert Cruz</a> is the canon editor for The New York Times.<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/taffy-brodesser-akner" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Taffy Brodesser-Akner</a> is a features reporter for The New York Times Magazine.Background Reading:<ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/the-good-bad" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Good-Bad</a></li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/movies/good-bad-movies-nytimes.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Why Loving Good-Bad Movies Feels All Good</a></li></ul>
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