Episode 388: Nyad

With fantastic energy, a rousing Alexandre Desplat score, two incredible central performances, and nifty documentary-esque use of archival footage/audio by the first-time narrative directors Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, Diana Nyad’s remarkable story of swimming from Cuba to Florida in her 60s is told. It’s the kind of extreme sports, crowd-pleasing, inspirational biopic formula that is focused on the individual more than the accomplishment in a way we love.

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Episode 387: Killers of the Flower Moon

Scorsese’s impressive (and long) adaptation of Grann’s non-fiction account is an engaging crime story that highlights an insidious historical injustice and encourages reflection. A stronger focus on the Osage people as something other than victims and some toned down cameo performances would be welcome, but this is still a fantastic epic drama.

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Episode 386: The Burial

Based off of an article in the New Yorker, Maggie Betts takes a simple and straightforward case and makes a mountain out of a mole hill, amplifying racial undertones of the time period into a place of priority that distracts from what could have been a more compelling courtroom drama. The performances are great and the points being made about poor character are admirable, but ultimately this was the wrong approach and results in a very middling and not particularly rousing legal film.

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Episode 385: Flora and Son

John Carney has a way of making the ordinary extraordinary in his heavily musical focused movies. This time around he gives us authentic relationships, cautious optimism, and a great soundtrack to help tell a story about messy mothers and the power music has to bring people together.

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Episode 384: The Creator

Gareth Edwards brings big ideas about humanity’s war-torn relationship with A.I. and an epic science fiction scale to the screen, but while certainly nice to look at, the film unfortunately doesn’t explore anything in an interesting or meaningful way and ends up feeling like a high-budget television movie setting the stage for a series that will never be.

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Episode 383: Invincible

The real life story of Philadelphia everyman Vince Papale and his unlikely journey to professional football player is a bit sanitized by the Disney production, but still covers the great success in an enjoyable manner that captures the heart of what he accomplished and what it meant to those who cheered him on.

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Episode 382: Past Lives

Celine Song’s directorial debut is a beautiful story of friendship and contemplation about the choices we make in life. It is powerfully relatable, thoughtful, and mature in handling a unique relationship dynamic, and the film shows us that it’s okay to be sad about the road not taken without having regrets.

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Episode 381: The Eight Mountains

This adaptation of Paolo Cognetti’s novel about a lifetime-spanning friendship set in the northwest Italian alps is even better than its excellent source material. Spending time with Pietro and Bruno is as poignant as it is resonant, their lives and the metaphors of this beautiful and sometimes heartbreaking story often inspirational. With a backdrop of spectacular mountains and perfectly matching soundtrack, it’s easy to get swept away by the ebb and flow of this memorable relationship. Also beards. The film has tremendous beards, too.

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Episode 380: Enter the Dragon

Bruce Lee’s martial arts spy adventure film turns 50 this year so we’re celebrating it with a conversation about what makes it so enjoyable and rewatchable, but also why it might be slightly overrated.

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Episode 379: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

It’s new turtles for a new generation, with some twists on origin stories as well for both friends and foe. These teenagers act, talk, and look their age more than they ever have before and a dynamic but raw sketch-like art style makes for a visually interesting cinematic experience. There’s plenty of action and jokes to go around and we’re glad to report that this is one reboot we’re completely onboard for.

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