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Episode 23 - That's What the Money's For

Episode 23 - That's What the Money's For

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Things are getting back on track in 2024. We discuss awards season (recorded before the Oscar nominees were announce so don't @ us!), our Barbie's box office success, our favorite movies of 2023, and May December.

Movies discussed (* indicates spoilers):

  • Anatomy of a Fall, The Boy and the Heron
  • Thelma (June Squibb’s film)
  • Barbie, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, Oppenheimer, The Lego Movie
  • The Zone of Interest, Birth (2004), Sexy Beast, The Fall (2019 short), Under the Skin, La Chimera, Saltburn, Promising Young Woman, All of Us Strangers, A Thousand and One
  • Killers of the Flower Moon*, Eileen, Beau Is Afraid*, Certain Women, The Holdovers, Dolemite Is My Name
  • May December*, Napoleon (2023), Ferrari, Priscilla, Hustlers, The Go-Between, Babylon (2022), La La Land
  • Asteroid City*, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The French Dispatch, Waves (2019), The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
  • Past Lives*, Poor Things*, Sanctuary (2022), The Tragedy of Macbeth
  • The Iron Claw*, Bottoms, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

The Smartest People in the Room is hosted by Rachel Casey and Maddie Weiner. It is edited by Maddie Weiner. Original theme and interstitial music is by Scott Boice - follow him on Instagram @sc00gle and find more of his work on ⁠⁠Bandcamp⁠⁠.

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