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Mery Smith reads a poem by Taneum Bambrick

Once again, in another black-and-white episode, fabled French arborist Gaston Moreau gazes bleakly out upon the landscape and smokes a cigarette.

The Latvian animated feature “Flow” blends authentic animal behavior with a magically realistic setting, Dan Webster says in his review.

As counter-programming to the ongoing prestige movie season, Nathan Weinbender looks at two breezy new streaming docs about very different musical movements: “Beatles ’64” on Disney+ and “Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary” on Max.

Dennis Held reads an original poem

Dennis Held reads a poem by Richard Hugo

On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss a pair of films that key on characters who, when facing something or someone, have to dig deep to figure out what to do. Those films are Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of the Broadway musical “Wicked” and the latest from director Cint Eastwood, “Juror #2.”

On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss two films whose themes are fully independent of one another—the psychologically complex buddy study “A Real Pain” and the musical crime saga “Emilia Pérez.”

In “Juror #2,” a man realizes that he may have been involved in the murder case he’s currently deliberating. Nathan Weinbender says it’s a compelling hook for what may be Clint Eastwood’s final film as a director.

John M. Chu’s “Wicked” is a frenzied, emotionally fraught adaptation of the popular Broadway musical, Dan Webster says in his review.