We're gettin' it together, folks. This week we talk a lot about Matt Damon, Lily Gladstone, Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Sofia Coppola, plus Killers of the Flower Moon and Beau Is Afraid.

Movies discussed (* indicates spoilers):

• Air, BlackBerry, The Martian, The Last Duel, Hustlers, Erin Brockovich, The Departed*, Promised Land, Downsizing, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Terminator: Dark Fate
• Beau Is Afraid, Hilma, Showing Up, First Cow
• Killers of the Flower Moon*, Uncharted, The Whale, Certain Women
• Body Double, Phantom of the Paradise, The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• The Wolf of Wall Street, Romeo + Juliet, Once Upon A Time… in Hollywood
• The Night of the Hunter, Far from Heaven, All That Heaven Allows, Days of Heaven, Heaven’s Gate
• Hereditary, Midsommar, Babylon
• The Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette, The Bling Ring, Priscilla, The Sweet East, Saltburn, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, American Animals
• May December, The Holdovers, Sideways, You Hurt My Feelings, Master Gardener, Occupied City, Small Axe: Mangrove, Small Axe: Lovers Rock, Small Axe: Education, Bad Education (2019), La mala educación (Bad Education) (2004), An Education, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, The Starling Girl, White Men Can’t Jump (2023)
• Of An Age, Before Sunset, Ghosted, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Little Mermaid (2023), The Lure
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Book Club: The Next Chapter

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