On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss two films that focus on characters showing signs of mania. The first is director Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love,” and the second is Guillermo del Toro's “Frankenstein."

On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss two films that tackle polar-opposite themes in an attempt to create cinematic art. The first is “Bugonia,” written and directed by the Greek-born filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos. The second is “Train Dreams,” a film directed and co-written by Clint Bentley.

On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere,” Scott Cooper’s study of Bruce Springsteen’s struggle to record his album “Nebraska,” followed by “It Was Just an Accident,” which is Iranian writer-director Jafar Panahi’s study of revenge and redemption.

On this week’s show, Nathan Weinbender, Mary Pat Treuthart, and Dan Webster try to provide an answer to the question, "what exactly is the point of movie criticism... or, more to the point, movie critics?"

On this week’s show, Dan Webster and Nathan Weinbender discuss a pair of films by critically-acclaimed filmmakers that swim, or sink, based on the strength of their screenplays.

On this week's show, Dan Webster, Mary Pat Treuthart, and Nathan Weinbender discuss two films that feature characters on quests for something that, at least tangentially, involves happiness. The first is "The History of Sound," starring Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor, and the second is the French import, "Souleymane's Story."

On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Mary Pat Treuthart, and Nathan Weinbender discuss two movies that incorporate violence, or references to it, at their very core. The first is the aptly titled “The Smashing Machine,” in which Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson plays the real-life MMA fighter Mark Kerr. The other is “Anemone,” a film starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a man tortured by memories of war.

On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Mary Pat Treuthart, and Nathan Weinbender discuss filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest effort, the Leonardo Di Caprio vehicle “One Battle After Another,” and then they tackle Anderson’s entire career, with each making a case for what they think is his best film.

On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss the recent trend of documentaries celebrating the lives and careers of musicians, and offer up their thoughts on a few of the films that you might want to check out.

On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Mary Pat Treuthart and Nathan Weinbender discuss a pair of films—one a satirical comedy, “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues,” the other a depiction of dystopian horror, “The Long Walk”—that demand their respective audiences to just sit back, ignore your sense of reality, and enjoy... if you can.