Our Favorite Movies Of The Year So Far, And A Summer Blockbusters Preview
5/21/20261 hr 35 min
Coucou les cheris! As Cannes is underway on the Riviera, we take a break from our usual movie-of-the-week format to look back at the year so far, and look forward to this summer. We count down our top 5 favorite movies of the year (that haven’t been covered on the show), including big studio movies and European arthouse fare. We’ll also take a temperature check on the summer blockbuster slate, from The Mandalorian & Grogu, Disclosure Day, Spider-Man, The Odyssey, and more. Finally, we’ll hear a transmission from Alison and Richard, live from Cannes, to discuss the festival so far. Your wish has been granted! Next week, we’re talking about Obsession, from director Curry Barker and Blumhouse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsMarie Barty0:00
[trumpets playing] From Blank Check Productions, this is Critical Darlings, a podcast about the movies everyone's talking about, one new release after another. [cymbals crashing] Please welcome your hosts, Richard Lawson and Alison Willmore.
Richard Lawson· Host0:24
[applauding] Merci, Marie Barty, for that wonderful introduction, as always. Alison and I are joined by our producer Ben Frisch. Hello, Ben.
Alison Willmore· Host0:36
Bonjour, Richard.
Richard Lawson· Host0:37
Oh.
Alison Willmore· Host0:38
Oh.
Richard Lawson· Host0:38
Listen to that very French R.
Alison Willmore· Host0:40
I know.
Richard Lawson· Host0:41
R.
Alison Willmore· Host0:41
Look at us. Um, so the reason that we're speaking in Italian right now is that- [laughs] ... um, Alison and I, as you listen to this, are in France, Europe- Yes ... uh, at the Cannes Film Festival, um, which is really exciting 'cause one of our earliest hangs was at the Cannes Film Festival. I think we talked about this- It is true ... I, we, I- ...
Richard Lawson· Host0:57
once ...
Alison Willmore· Host0:57
I appreciate you're calling it France, Europe- Yeah ... which is [laughs] often what we call the- [laughs] [laughs] Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you know.
Richard Lawson· Host1:04
Um, yeah.
Alison Willmore· Host1:04
Just so people that, you know, there could be a France in, like, Indiana or something. Um, yeah, so we're at that film festival. Um, in this episode we might occasionally, or, or producer Ben might drop in some Cannes audio from you and, you and I when on the ground there. And we are probably g- we're gonna try to, like, kinda mostly save what we see there for future episodes, probably in the fall when these movies are actually coming out and people have a chance to see them. That's one of the kinda pitfalls of Cannes- Yeah, yeah,