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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Aftersun.

Directed by Charlotte Wells. With Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, and Celia Rowlson-Hall. Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller

Featured Review:

• Aftersun

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Must See

• Christopher: Must See

Music for this Episode:

• Pressure by Max Apollo

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Decision to Leave.

Directed by Park Chan-wook. With Park Hae-il, Tang Wei, and Lee Jung-hyun. A detective investigating a man's death in the mountains meets the dead man's mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller

Featured Review:

• Decision to Leave

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Recommend with Caveat

• Christopher: Recommend with Caveat

Music for this Episode:

• Inspector Ratchet by Ty Simon

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Tár.

Directed by Todd Field. With Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, and Nina Hoss. Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and first-ever female music director of a major German orchestra.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller

Featured Review:

• Tár

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Must See

• Christopher: Must See

Music for this Episode:

• Concerto Grosso by Will Van De Crommert

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Triangle of Sadness.

Directed by Ruben Östlund. With Thobias Thorwid, Harris Dickinson, and Charlbi Dean. A cruise for the super-rich sinks thus leaving survivors, including a fashion model celebrity couple, trapped on an island.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller

Featured Review:

• Triangle of Sadness

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Pass with Caveat

• Christopher: Must Avoid

Music for this Episode:

• Titanic by HARLOW

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Bros.

Directed by Nicholas Stoller. With Billy Eichner, Luke Macfarlane, and Guy Branum. Two men with commitment problems attempt a relationship.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller

Featured Review:

• Bros

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Recommend with Caveat

• Christopher: Recommend with Caveat

Music for this Episode:

• Body by NM

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Blonde.

Directed by Andrew Dominik. With Ana de Armas, Lily Fisher, and Julianne Nicholson. A fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller

Featured Review:

• Blonde

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Must Avoid

• Christopher: Must Avoid

Music for this Episode:

• "All out of Love" by Katrina Stone

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of The Woman King.

Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. With Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, and Lashana Lynch. A historical epic inspired by true events that took place in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller

Featured Review:

• The Woman King

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Must See

• Christopher: Recommend with Caveat

Music for this Episode:

• "Battle Cry" by Rhythm Scott

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Barbarian.

Directed by Zach Cregger. With Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, and Justin Long. A woman staying at an Airbnb discovers that the house she has rented is not what it seems.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller

Featured Review:

• Barbarian

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Recommend with Caveat

• Christopher: Recommend with Caveat

Music for this Episode:

• "Man" by Lou Kelly

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Don’t Worry Darling.

Directed by Olivia Wilde. With Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, and Chris Pine. A 1950s housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company could be hiding disturbing secrets.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller

Featured Review:

• Don’t Worry Darling

The Verdict:

• Stephen: [Weak] Recommend with Caveat

• Christopher: Must Avoid

Music for this Episode:

• "Cheesecake" by Ofer Koren

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Episode Description:

In this episode, Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller bring you a review of Three Thousand Years of Longing.

Directed by George Miller. With Tilda Swinton, Idris Elba, and Pia Thunderbolt. A lonely scholar, on a trip to Istanbul, discovers a Djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.

Show Notes

Hosts:

• Christopher Schnese and Stephen Miller

Featured Review:

• Three Thousand Years of Longing

The Verdict:

• Stephen: Must See

• Christopher: Must See

Music for this Episode:

• Hidden Alleys of Istanbul by Alon Peretz

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