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Movies 101

"The Phoenician Scheme" & "Materialists"

From left: actor Benicio del Toro in the 2025 film The Phoenician Scheme; actress Dakota Johnson in the 2025 film Materialists.
From left: Benicio del Toro in The Phoenician Scheme (2025); Dakota Johnson in Materialists (2025).

Love comes in many forms, a fact that’s especially true when it plays out in the movies. On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss two films that embody the emotion we know as love in entirely different ways. First up is Wes Anderson’s latest, titled The Phoenician Scheme. Following that is Celine Song’s second feature film, titled simply Materialists.

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