Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa analyze the sleeper hit of summer 2023.

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Referenced media:

• “The Passion of the Christ” (Mel Gibson, 2004)
• “Law & Order: SVU” (Dick Wolf, 1999-now)
• “God’s Not Dead” (Harold Cronk, 2014)
• “First Blood” (Ted Kotcheff, 1982)
• “Columbiana” (Olivier Megaton, 2011)
• “The Equalizer” (Antoine Fuqua, 2014)
• “Survivor” (Charlie Parsons, 2000-now)
• “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, 2023)
• “The Flash” (Andy Muschietti, 2023)
• “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (James Mangold, 2023)
• “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” (Christopher McQuarrie, 2023)
• “Barbie” (Greta Gerwig, 2023)
• “Oppenheimer” (Christopher Nolan, 2023)

Audio quotation:

• “Sound of Freedom” (Alejandro Monteverde, 2023)
• Theme for “Survivor” (Charlie Parsons, 2000-now), written by Russ Landau