Critical Darlings Trailer
3/16/20262 min
Welcome to Critical Darlings, where critics Richard Lawson and Alison Willmore cover the latest film driving the conversation—from big summer blockbusters to festival favorites, buzzy streamers, and major awards contenders. New episodes every Thursday.
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First 90 secondsRichard Lawson· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Hi, I'm Richard Lawson.
Alison Wilmore· Host0:04
And I'm Alison Wilmore.
Richard Lawson· Host0:05
And we're the hosts of the podcast Critical Darlings.
Alison Wilmore· Host0:07
That's a podcast in which we talk about the movies everyone is talking about, one new release after another.
Richard Lawson· Host0:14
So we started the podcast talking about, oh, award season, all the Best Picture nominees- Yeah ... of last year.
Alison Wilmore· Host0:20
And also all the conversations that people were having about those Best Picture nominees.
Richard Lawson· Host0:24
Yes. We got very meta with it.
Alison Wilmore· Host0:26
We did.
Richard Lawson· Host0:26
And now we're looking ahead to spring and summer blockbusters before another round of award season movies starts in the fall. Although these days, might- maybe it's already started.
Alison Wilmore· Host0:35
Yeah, I know. Do we even believe in award season anymore? Are we living- [laughs] ... in award season? Uh, there's no escape. Uh, so, so we're going to keep that going.
Richard Lawson· Host0:43
Yeah.
Alison Wilmore· Host0:44
Every season is award season now. Uh, we're gonna look at the big movies, the art house movies. We're gonna talk about one new release every week, so.
Richard Lawson· Host0:52
Yeah. Yeah, from Cannes to, you know, the multiplex, I guess.
Alison Wilmore· Host0:56
[laughs] Yeah.
Richard Lawson· Host0:56
It's- And we're gonna, we're gonna keep up the idea of looking not just at movies, but also the context in which they're existing.
Alison Wilmore· Host1:02
We're gonna have, uh, some familiar guests- Yep ... from the larger Blank Check cinematic universe.
Richard Lawson· Host1:09
And beyond.
Alison Wilmore· Host1:09
And beyond. So yeah.
Richard Lawson· Host1:11
Yeah. So if that sounds good to you, you can subscribe to Critical Darlings on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, or wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes drop every Thursday.
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