What the corpus says about Tár (2022)

What was said about it (12)

1. [The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:12:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mahler ⇒ Tár (the host's read) · lineage · Ken Russell's composer-life films like Mahler are a precursor to Tar. · "It is kind of a tar precursor."
2. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:16:11 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Tár ↔ Lincoln · theme · Chris contrasts Blanchett's level of performance with a Lincoln-style historically resonant part, as a box-office draw for older audiences. · "I guess it's not Lincoln where she's like doing this historically like sort of resonant part, but it's in that kind of level of performance"
3. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:19:08 · Adam Nayman (0.80)] Tár ↔ Phantom Thread · theme · Adam compares Tar to Phantom Thread as an unexpected discourse and meme movie driven by a naked, embarrassing performance. · "It is a meme monster movie. In a way that reminds me, in a way that reminds me actually more than anything, of something like Phantom Thread"
4. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:19:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Tár ↔ Phantom Thread · theme · Sean agrees with Phantom Thread as a perfect comparison, since both are secretly comedies. · "Phantom Thread is a perfect comparison, Adam, because it's also that's also a crypto comedy"
5. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:00:01 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Tár ↔ Nope · verdict · Chris puts Tar at three and Banshees at two; Adam has Nope at three; the four lists overlap on Tar (Chris 3, Amanda 2, Sean 2) and on Nope (Adam 3, Sean 1). · "Number 3 is for me is tar."
6. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:13:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Tár ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · verdict · Sean says his number two Tar and number one Nope are close, as electric moviegoing experiences, while his number three is Top Gun: Maverick. · "This, my number 2 and my number one are just, I almost did one and one and then I didn't do it"
7. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:30:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Tár · industry · Way of Water's one vague teaser is compared to Tár's teaser campaign. · "This movie has the same marketing campaign as Tar."
8. [The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:35:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Tár ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · shared quality · Amanda calls them her two favorites of the year, one for the spectacle of cinema and the other for going for it as capital-C cinema. · "I have 2 favorites of this year, Top Gun Maverick. For the spectacle of cinema and tar for just absolutely fucking going for it, capital C cinema."
9. [The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:12:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ken Russell ⇒ Tár (the host's read) · lineage · Russell's melodramatic operatic composer biopics like Mahler are a Tar precursor. · "He made a lot of, um, uh, like melodramatic, stylish operatic recreations of composers lives, like Mahler."
10. [The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:12:20 · Tim Simons (0.60)] Leonard Bernstein ⇒ Tár (the host's read) · lineage · Tim asks whether the hosts joked that Tar was about Bernstein conducting Mahler in the church; Sean answers that it was inspired by his work. · "Mad Tar must have been about Bernstein doing the Mahler in the church, right?"
11. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:16:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Tár ↔ Stanley Kubrick · craft · Sean says Tar is perceived as having Kubrickian coldness, which makes it less inviting at the box office. · "it at least is perceived as having that Kubrickian coldness, which I think is not very inviting as a movie going experience."
12. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:00:13 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Tár ↔ Daniel Day-Lewis · people · Chris says watching Blanchett is like watching a Daniel Day-Lewis movie, something you need front row seats for. · "This is like when you're watching a Daniel Day-Lewis movie."

Films put beside it more than once (2)

1. [pairs] Tár ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · said 2 times in 2 episodes
2. [pairs] Tár ↔ Phantom Thread · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (5)

1. [The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:35:17 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Tár · fun · Amanda laughed with joy at the ending and recalls small observed moments like the deleted email and Petra's father. · "I started like laughing with joy and I can't believe you're doing this at the end of this movie"
2. [The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:37:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Tár · fun · The Juilliard confrontation is an instant time capsule of cancel culture, done less well since. · "The Juilliard set, you know, confrontation between the student and Lydia Tar is sort of like a, an instant time capsule"
3. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:15:29 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Tar · fun · Chris watched three times: frustrated by the ending first, a blast second, and by the third he called it one of the great ones. He notes it will make under five million dollars. · "This is one of the great ones."
4. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:18:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.65)] Tar · fun · Sean says the opening Q&A scene with the New Yorker interviewer is how to use Blanchett: ten minutes of her talking about things she likes. A hosts' joke imagines a Todd Field and Adam Sandler pairing. · "that opening scene, as I wrote in the Ringer piece, where she's taking questions from Gopnik, from the New Yorkers, like, that is how you use Cape Blanchett."
5. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:19:34 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] Tar · fun · Adam recommends Mr. Otterlake's Lydia Tar fan cam on Twitter; Sean notes many people think Lydia Tar is a real person. · "there's also the fact that so many people seem to think Lydia Tarr was a real person."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (18)

1. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:14:05 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Phantom Thread ↔ Little Miss Sunshine · theme · Dave Toshki (as transcribed) Animal Crackers Award for niche tastes: Reynolds Woodcock's poisoned mushrooms, the Little Miss Sunshine character, Neil McCauley in Heat. · "Reynolds Woodcock's fondness for poisoned mushrooms and Phantom Thread."
2. [The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:58:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ Sean Fennessey · programming · Top Gun: Maverick is the communal 'hell yeah' experience Sean misses. · "It's kind of dumb."
3. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:26:04 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · programming · After the Fox acquisition it felt like Disney would alternate Star Wars and Avatar releases. · "oh, they'll alternate every other year between a Star Wars movie and an Avatar movie."
4. [Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:25:32 · Bilge Ebiri (0.90)] Jaws ↔ Lincoln · theme · The slaps in Jaws and Lincoln show the shift from identifying with the slapped child to the anxious parent. · "So it's very much like almost like the humiliation of a little boy who's been slapped."
5. [Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40)] The Color of Money ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided. · "now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later"
6. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:27:41 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania · programming · Disney's next big release after Avatar 2 is Ant-Man in late February, giving it about two months of runway. · "No, it's Ant-man in like late February, maybe."
7. [Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 1:45:35 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80)] Amistad ↔ Lincoln · theme · Bilge says Spielberg's serious films, from Empire to Schindler, Amistad, Lincoln and Ryan, all turn on people as items on a ledger. · "they all they all become about sort of people as items on a ledger, even saving Private Ryan."
8. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:19:41 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Top Gun ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Maverick's dogfight football is compared with the original's volleyball scene, which hides its doubles in wide shots. · "I mean, I went back and watched the volleyball scene from the original Top Gun."
9. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:37:26 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · programming · Both sequels arrive within a month of each other. · "Now, both getting sequels within a month of each other."
10. [The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:42:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Catch Me If You Can ↔ Lincoln · theme · Both movies are built around one hugely charismatic person wriggling in and out of trouble. · "The movie is built around this one deeply charismatic person and their ability to wriggle in and out of trouble."
11. [The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:14:21 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Same director and a broadly similar story of an aging star in the cockpit. · "this movie gets compared to Top Gun Maverick a lot, same director"
12. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:38:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Napoleon · programming · Apple may release Napoleon on Christmas Day because the landscape is soft. · "Apple is seriously considering releasing Ridley Scott's Napoleon starring Joaquin Phoenix on Christmas Day because they're looking at the landscape and they're like, it's soft out here."
13. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:26:26 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Top Gun ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Chris says the sequel delivered and is better than the first, and Amanda agrees. · "It's better than the 1st one"
14. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:44:26 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Terminator 2: Judgment Day · lineage · Cameron's pitches for sequels sounded off beforehand and then worked, as with T2. · "Before Terminator 2 was like, you want more Terminator?"
15. [The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:10:40 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ The Color of Money · lineage · Top Gun: Maverick is doing the Eddie Felson-style return of an older character. · "Obviously, he's doing that with Top Gun right now."
16. [The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:32:59 · Chris Ryan (0.75)] Babylon ↔ Avatar: The Way of Water · craft · Chris thinks it cheap that Babylon's montage of cinema moments includes Avatar, which Sean defends as part of cinema's evolution. · "It feels cheap that he would put that movie in the like montage of the greatest film moments ever"
17. [The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:55:42 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · theme · The older ace winning the final race is the same choice as Maverick saving everybody. · "sunny winning Abu Dhabi, much like Maverick, where Maverick has to be the one who saves everybody's asses"
18. [The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:08:46 · Adam Nayman (0.80)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ Jackass Forever · theme · Adam says he would give best actor to Cruise and Knoxville alike because the two films are both about passing the torch to a new generation while sticking around. · "I think they're kind of the same film. all about. like passing the torch to a new generation, but also sticking around."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (5)

1. [speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
2. [speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
3. [speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
4. [speaker] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
5. [speaker] Tim Simons · latest sketch, Blank Check · Fearless · Adores Bradley Whitford, Jeff Bridges, and unbridled positivity about moviegoing. Lover of old movies he has not seen yet. Can be contrarian ('movie MAGA mode') about near-consensus films and U2. Moved by performance and craft more than plot. · stances: Fearless is uniformly excellent, the first 30 and last 20 minutes transcendent; Jeff Bridges is peak, subtle and singular; the Fearless ending locks all puzzle pieces; nitpicks consensus classics

The shows' running bits (3)

1. [bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
2. [bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
3. [bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Tár (2022) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Tár (2022) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:12:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Mahler ⇒ Tár (the host's read) · lineage · Ken Russell's composer-life films like Mahler are a precursor to Tar. · "It is kind of a tar precursor."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:16:11 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Tár ↔ Lincoln · theme · Chris contrasts Blanchett's level of performance with a Lincoln-style historically resonant part, as a box-office draw for older audiences. · "I guess it's not Lincoln where she's like doing this historically like sort of resonant part, but it's in that kind of level of performance"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:19:08 · Adam Nayman (0.80)] Tár ↔ Phantom Thread · theme · Adam compares Tar to Phantom Thread as an unexpected discourse and meme movie driven by a naked, embarrassing performance. · "It is a meme monster movie. In a way that reminds me, in a way that reminds me actually more than anything, of something like Phantom Thread"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:19:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.75)] Tár ↔ Phantom Thread · theme · Sean agrees with Phantom Thread as a perfect comparison, since both are secretly comedies. · "Phantom Thread is a perfect comparison, Adam, because it's also that's also a crypto comedy"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:00:01 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Tár ↔ Nope · verdict · Chris puts Tar at three and Banshees at two; Adam has Nope at three; the four lists overlap on Tar (Chris 3, Amanda 2, Sean 2) and on Nope (Adam 3, Sean 1). · "Number 3 is for me is tar."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:13:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] Tár ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · verdict · Sean says his number two Tar and number one Nope are close, as electric moviegoing experiences, while his number three is Top Gun: Maverick. · "This, my number 2 and my number one are just, I almost did one and one and then I didn't do it"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:30:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.60)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Tár · industry · Way of Water's one vague teaser is compared to Tár's teaser campaign. · "This movie has the same marketing campaign as Tar."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:35:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Tár ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · shared quality · Amanda calls them her two favorites of the year, one for the spectacle of cinema and the other for going for it as capital-C cinema. · "I have 2 favorites of this year, Top Gun Maverick. For the spectacle of cinema and tar for just absolutely fucking going for it, capital C cinema."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:12:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Ken Russell ⇒ Tár (the host's read) · lineage · Russell's melodramatic operatic composer biopics like Mahler are a Tar precursor. · "He made a lot of, um, uh, like melodramatic, stylish operatic recreations of composers lives, like Mahler."
[The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back · 1:12:20 · Tim Simons (0.60)] Leonard Bernstein ⇒ Tár (the host's read) · lineage · Tim asks whether the hosts joked that Tar was about Bernstein conducting Mahler in the church; Sean answers that it was inspired by his work. · "Mad Tar must have been about Bernstein doing the Mahler in the church, right?"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:16:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Tár ↔ Stanley Kubrick · craft · Sean says Tar is perceived as having Kubrickian coldness, which makes it less inviting at the box office. · "it at least is perceived as having that Kubrickian coldness, which I think is not very inviting as a movie going experience."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:00:13 · Chris Ryan (0.85)] Tár ↔ Daniel Day-Lewis · people · Chris says watching Blanchett is like watching a Daniel Day-Lewis movie, something you need front row seats for. · "This is like when you're watching a Daniel Day-Lewis movie."
[pairs] Tár ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Tár ↔ Phantom Thread · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:35:17 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Tár · fun · Amanda laughed with joy at the ending and recalls small observed moments like the deleted email and Petra's father. · "I started like laughing with joy and I can't believe you're doing this at the end of this movie"
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:37:23 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80)] Tár · fun · The Juilliard confrontation is an instant time capsule of cancel culture, done less well since. · "The Juilliard set, you know, confrontation between the student and Lydia Tar is sort of like a, an instant time capsule"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:15:29 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] Tar · fun · Chris watched three times: frustrated by the ending first, a blast second, and by the third he called it one of the great ones. He notes it will make under five million dollars. · "This is one of the great ones."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:18:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.65)] Tar · fun · Sean says the opening Q&A scene with the New Yorker interviewer is how to use Blanchett: ten minutes of her talking about things she likes. A hosts' joke imagines a Todd Field and Adam Sandler pairing. · "that opening scene, as I wrote in the Ringer piece, where she's taking questions from Gopnik, from the New Yorkers, like, that is how you use Cape Blanchett."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:19:34 · Adam Nayman (0.55)] Tar · fun · Adam recommends Mr. Otterlake's Lydia Tar fan cam on Twitter; Sean notes many people think Lydia Tar is a real person. · "there's also the fact that so many people seem to think Lydia Tarr was a real person."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:14:05 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Phantom Thread ↔ Little Miss Sunshine · theme · Dave Toshki (as transcribed) Animal Crackers Award for niche tastes: Reynolds Woodcock's poisoned mushrooms, the Little Miss Sunshine character, Neil McCauley in Heat. · "Reynolds Woodcock's fondness for poisoned mushrooms and Phantom Thread."
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 0:58:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ Sean Fennessey · programming · Top Gun: Maverick is the communal 'hell yeah' experience Sean misses. · "It's kind of dumb."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:26:04 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope · programming · After the Fox acquisition it felt like Disney would alternate Star Wars and Avatar releases. · "oh, they'll alternate every other year between a Star Wars movie and an Avatar movie."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 0:25:32 · Bilge Ebiri (0.90)] Jaws ↔ Lincoln · theme · The slaps in Jaws and Lincoln show the shift from identifying with the slapped child to the anxious parent. · "So it's very much like almost like the humiliation of a little boy who's been slapped."
[Blank Check · The Color of Money · 1:07:05 · David Sims (0.40)] The Color of Money ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Gap-based legacy sequels like Top Gun Maverick, Tron Legacy and Blade Runner follow the template Color of Money invented, though in 1986 sequels were derided. · "now we get more and more like your your Tron legacies and your Top Gun Mavericks, where it's just casually... 37, 40 years later"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:27:41 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania · programming · Disney's next big release after Avatar 2 is Ant-Man in late February, giving it about two months of runway. · "No, it's Ant-man in like late February, maybe."
[Blank Check · Empire of the Sun · 1:45:35 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80)] Amistad ↔ Lincoln · theme · Bilge says Spielberg's serious films, from Empire to Schindler, Amistad, Lincoln and Ryan, all turn on people as items on a ledger. · "they all they all become about sort of people as items on a ledger, even saving Private Ryan."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:19:41 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Top Gun ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Maverick's dogfight football is compared with the original's volleyball scene, which hides its doubles in wide shots. · "I mean, I went back and watched the volleyball scene from the original Top Gun."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:37:26 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Black Panther: Wakanda Forever · programming · Both sequels arrive within a month of each other. · "Now, both getting sequels within a month of each other."
[The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies · 0:42:12 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Catch Me If You Can ↔ Lincoln · theme · Both movies are built around one hugely charismatic person wriggling in and out of trouble. · "The movie is built around this one deeply charismatic person and their ability to wriggle in and out of trouble."
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:14:21 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · lineage · Same director and a broadly similar story of an aging star in the cockpit. · "this movie gets compared to Top Gun Maverick a lot, same director"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:38:33 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Napoleon · programming · Apple may release Napoleon on Christmas Day because the landscape is soft. · "Apple is seriously considering releasing Ridley Scott's Napoleon starring Joaquin Phoenix on Christmas Day because they're looking at the landscape and they're like, it's soft out here."
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:26:26 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Top Gun ⇒ Top Gun: Maverick (the host's read) · lineage · Chris says the sequel delivered and is better than the first, and Amanda agrees. · "It's better than the 1st one"
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 1:44:26 · unknown (0.40)] Avatar: The Way of Water ↔ Terminator 2: Judgment Day · lineage · Cameron's pitches for sequels sounded off beforehand and then worked, as with T2. · "Before Terminator 2 was like, you want more Terminator?"
[The Big Picture · The Tom Cruise Hall of Fame · 1:10:40 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ The Color of Money · lineage · Top Gun: Maverick is doing the Eddie Felson-style return of an older character. · "Obviously, he's doing that with Top Gun right now."
[The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 0:32:59 · Chris Ryan (0.75)] Babylon ↔ Avatar: The Way of Water · craft · Chris thinks it cheap that Babylon's montage of cinema moments includes Avatar, which Sean defends as part of cinema's evolution. · "It feels cheap that he would put that movie in the like montage of the greatest film moments ever"
[The Rewatchables · ‘F1’ · 0:55:42 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] F1 ↔ Top Gun: Maverick · theme · The older ace winning the final race is the same choice as Maverick saving everybody. · "sunny winning Abu Dhabi, much like Maverick, where Maverick has to be the one who saves everybody's asses"
[The Big Picture · The Top Five Movies of 2022 · 1:08:46 · Adam Nayman (0.80)] Top Gun: Maverick ↔ Jackass Forever · theme · Adam says he would give best actor to Cruise and Knoxville alike because the two films are both about passing the torch to a new generation while sticking around. · "I think they're kind of the same film. all about. like passing the torch to a new generation, but also sticking around."
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Adam Nayman · latest sketch, The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ · Self-described slasher fan who likes a movie that plays with tropes intelligently; admires Miasma's playfulness and sincerity but dislikes its showbiz satire. Soft spot for Texas Chain Saw, wrestling and Toronto sports. Wary of the idea that references alone make a movie smart. · stances: Miasma is academic but playfully so; Better filmmakers deserve less intention-guessing; Don't need to love slashers to love Miasma
[speaker] Tim Simons · latest sketch, Blank Check · Fearless · Adores Bradley Whitford, Jeff Bridges, and unbridled positivity about moviegoing. Lover of old movies he has not seen yet. Can be contrarian ('movie MAGA mode') about near-consensus films and U2. Moved by performance and craft more than plot. · stances: Fearless is uniformly excellent, the first 30 and last 20 minutes transcendent; Jeff Bridges is peak, subtle and singular; the Fearless ending locks all puzzle pieces; nitpicks consensus classics
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Tár (2022); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Tár (2022) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.