My review of James Vanderbilt's Nuremberg is now up at Film-Forward.
I thought the cast overall was good, particularly Russell Crowe (his best performance in quite some time), Michael Shannon, and Richard E. Grant.
The epic-scope approach is quite overcooked and overlong, with simplistic subplots, but the main story between Douglas Kelley and Hermann Göring is fascinating.
To my surprise, I was won over by Christy. A scrappy sports bio with a strong survivor as its subject.
My Film-Forward is up here!
My review of the much-anticipated (and divisive!) Lynne Ramsay film, Die My Love, is now up at Film-Forward.
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My first collection of poems, Re-Animator, forthcoming from Indolent Books in 2026, is now available to preorder!
See here for a link from Indolent Books to purchase.
"In this incisive, deliciously specific collection, Jeffery Berg inspirits the relics and ghosts of an American childhood and youth that is at once arrestingly familiar, fantastical, and fraught. Whether he’s evoking Jason from Friday the 13th or invoking the lyrics of “We Are the World,” he traces the masks and acts that disguise and reveal, while unraveling and reweaving the veils of identity, gender, and place. “I rewrite, I myth-make / the discos, cracked records, / Astaire, and bodies that didn’t make it / this long,” Berg writes. “I rework them into air, / into glass, shimmering, pricked / into a slivery frock / above pits of this earth.” Re-Animator takes us back and leads us forward, as we revisit our past and so reclaim our present, with generosity and wisdom."
—David Groff
Reading poems tonight with Michael Montlack & David Groff, with music by Window Dancer in Ridgewood (my old stomping grounds).
