Top Gun: Maverick 2022
The one auction pick that actually paid off; Sean calls it the success of the summer.
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The 20 Most Anticipated Movies of Fall 2022
August 22, 2022/ 93 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins
Sean and Amanda regroup after a rough summer at the box office and each draft a personal top 10 of the fall's most anticipated movies.
49 films across 4 segments.
AI-generated This episode was transcribed and analyzed with AI models. The matches aren't perfect — expect the occasional misheard title or a link to the wrong film.
The Summer That Wasrecapping a strange season at the movies
Nope 2022
Amanda's post-leave, spoiler-averse review: an alien that's a camera, some horses, some shrapnel. Sean calls it a breath of fresh air, if slack in its pacing.
Bullet Train 2022
The Northman 2022
Men 2022
The Batman 2022
Amanda watched it in 30-minute increments during her leave and had to text Sean to ask who the man at the end was (it was the Joker).
Crimes of the Future 2022
A Cronenberg throwback Sean loved; he got to interview Cronenberg.
RRR 2022
Opened in theaters but hit Netflix fast, so a lot of people caught it there instead.
Ambulance 2022
The Gray Man 2022
A $200 million movie that played 14 theaters for a week before going to Netflix. Both hosts call it a bad business decision and a bad film, citing hacky performances and a Prague set piece Amanda says wastes its own location.
Jackass Forever 2022
Amanda saw it twice in theaters.
Prey 2022
One of Amanda's five favorite movies of the summer, sight unseen - she just loved the podcast about it.
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On 2022
Amanda liked it, didn't love it - found it too tender for her current, fairly raw emotional state.
Spiderhead 2022
Sean saw it in a theater and liked it more than most; at home, watching it the day it dropped on Netflix, it didn't work at all for him.
Honorable Mentionsbefore the countdown
The Woman King 2022
Gina Prince-Bythewood's big theatrical film, out in September.
Stars at Noon 2022
Claire Denis, from Cannes.
Aftersun 2022
Charlotte Wells's Cannes Jury Prize winner.
Dead for a Dollar 2022
A new Walter Hill film - Sean notes Hill is around 80.
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths 2022
Alejandro G. Inarritu's return; neither host is a big fan of his recent work, but they expect it to be a fall event regardless.
Halloween Ends 2022
Closes out David Gordon Green's trilogy. Sean's more in on these films than most horror fans he knows.
Moonage Daydream 2022
The David Bowie documentary.
Pearl 2022
Ti West's X sequel.
Confess Fletch 2022
Jon Hamm's new Fletch film.
Barbarian 2022
Strong early buzz on this one; Sean is seeing it that week.
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed 2022
Laura Poitras's Nan Goldin documentary, playing all four festivals.
Athena 2022
Romain Gavras, headed to Netflix.
Amanda's 10 Most Anticipated Movies of Fall 2022best to worst
No. 1
She Said 2022
No. 1 - the Cantor/Twohey/Weinstein adaptation. Amanda loved the book as a journalism nerd, but worries the trailer leans on procedural cliche and that the ending being common knowledge saps the thriller energy a Spotlight-style film needs.
No. 2
Armageddon Time 2022
James Gray's memoiristic companion piece to The Fabelmans, starring Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, and Anthony Hopkins. A shared pick - Sean already saw it at Cannes.
No. 3
Bros 2022
Billy Eichner's studio rom-com, written by and starring him, directed by Nicholas Stoller.
No. 4
The Eternal Daughter 2022
Joanna Hogg's secret COVID project with Tilda Swinton, produced by Martin Scorsese. Hogg was a guest on the show for The Souvenir Part II, where she recommended Heat.
No. 6
Empire of Light 2022
Sam Mendes, with Olivia Colman and Colin Firth - a love story set in an English coastal cinema in the 1980s.
No. 7
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery 2022
Rian Johnson's follow-up, with Daniel Craig back and a large ensemble; premiering at TIFF before a Netflix release.
No. 8
The Whale 2022
Darren Aronofsky's Brendan Fraser comeback vehicle, tipped early as an Oscar performance.
No. 9
Ticket to Paradise 2022
George Clooney and Julia Roberts as a divorced couple reuniting for their daughter's wedding - the trailer that ran before Minions: The Rise of Gru.
No. 10
Don't Worry Darling 2022
No. 10 - Olivia Wilde's follow-up to Booksmart, with Florence Pugh and Harry Styles.
Sean's 10 Most Anticipated Movies of Fall 2022best to worst
No. 1
White Noise 2022
No. 1 - Noah Baumbach's adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel, with Greta Gerwig and Adam Driver, opening the Venice and New York film festivals.
No. 2
Babylon 2022
Damien Chazelle's first film since First Man, with Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, and Diego Calva - Sean knows the least about this one of anything on either list.
No. 3
Avatar: The Way of Water 2022
James Cameron's sequel; Sean says Cameron has never made a movie he dislikes.
No. 4
The Fabelmans 2022
Steven Spielberg's most personal film, with Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, and Seth Rogen; opens the same day as Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
No. 6
Women Talking 2022
Sarah Polley's adaptation of the Miriam Toews novel, with Frances McDormand, Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, and Ben Whishaw.
No. 7
Decision to Leave 2022
Park Chan-wook's new noir, with Tang Wei and Park Hae-il; South Korea's Oscar submission.
No. 8
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 2022
Ryan Coogler's follow-up, made in the wake of Chadwick Boseman's death.
No. 9
Master Gardener 2022
Paul Schrader's new film, with Joel Edgerton, Sigourney Weaver, and Quintessa Swindell - Sean's favorite living filmmaker.
No. 10
Eileen 2023
No. 10 - William Oldroyd's adaptation of the Ottessa Moshfegh novel, with Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie. Sean read and loved the book; a listener DM about a Swedish hotel prompted the segment.
Also mentioned raised along the way
Dated for fall, not on either list The Banshees of InisherinTriangle of SadnessThe MenuSee How They RunViolent NightAsteroid CityMaestroThe KillerPoor ThingsMission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part OneSpider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseKillers of the Flower MoonBeau Is AfraidJoker: Folie à Deux
In passing HeatTitanicAliensTerminator 2: Judgment DayOldboyLady VengeanceStokerThe HandmaidenCinema ParadisoLady MacbethChopperIn the BedroomEyes Wide ShutLittle ChildrenSpotlightAll the President's MenPromising Young WomanI'm Your ManVox LuxThe HumansThe Devil All the TimeFour LionsThe Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)Marriage StoryThe Mosquito CoastFirst ReformedThe Card CounterFirst ManMad Max: Fury RoadThree Thousand Years of LongingThe Constant GardenerSynecdoche, New YorkReal LifeExtraction
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