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Movies can provide escapist entertainment that dumbs down the mind and passes the time into oblivion. They can also connect us to the transcendent, fill our lives with existential meaning or lead us to search for the depths of being. In this book, Daniel Goodman opens our eyes to the spiritual feast available for the taking in films.

Under cover of reviewing movies, Goodman leads us on a journey to meaning and inspiration. For the religious searcher, he breaks us out of the narrow box of canonical literature and leads us to browse in the enchanted forest of movies. For the spiritually inert, he awakens us to go beneath the surface of life and allows films to enable us to see the world with new eyes.

This is a serious book but it is fun to read. On page after page, it surprises us with new insights drawn out of old iconic screen moments. After reading Goodman, you will reverse the old adage. Instead of saying “I lost it at the movies,” you will say: “I found it (vision/divinity/global connectivity) at the movies.” Thank God and thank Goodman.

Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg

Riverdale, NY

January 2020