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Movies 101

"A Complete Unknown," "Babygirl" & "Nosferatu"

From left: Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown (2024); Harris Dickinson and Nicole Kidman in Babygirl (2024); Nicholas Hoult in Nosferatu (2024).
From left: Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown (2024); Harris Dickinson and Nicole Kidman in Babygirl (2024); Nicholas Hoult in Nosferatu (2024).

And so the year 2024 closes out, which leave us here at Movies 101 to celebrate that fact by reviewing a final three films. On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss a trio of films that feature complex and/or familiar characters, in one case a study of real-life celebrity, in another a woman confronted by her sexual desires, and in a third a remake of a classic creature feature. The first is James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, the second is Halina Reijn’s Babygirl, and the third is Robert Eggers’ remake of the vampire flick Nosferatu.

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