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The Big Picture
Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins review the movies you need to see. Plus: Top 5s, Movie Drafts, Oscars analysis, and more. Subscribe to Sean's newsletter, Projections, here.
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- ‘Michael’ Wants to Start Something It Can’t Finish. Plus: ‘Mother Mary’ With David Lowery!
- The 900th-Episode Mega-Voicemailbag!
- The 15 Most Anticipated Movies Out of CinemaCon and Our Trip to the Sphere!
- The 2026 Summer Movie Preview "Boom or Bust" Game
- The Meryl Streep Hall of Fame
- The 2026 Movie Star Rankings: 35 Under 35
- The Top 10 Movie Plot Twists and ‘The Drama.’ Plus: ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Certainly Exists.
- The Best Movies of the Year … So Far. Plus: 15 We Missed!
- The 1988 Movie Draft
- The Steven Spielberg Conversation
- The "Anything But Oscars" Mailbag! Plus: ‘Hoppers’
- The 10 Wildest Reboots in Movie History and ‘The Bride!’ Plus: A ‘Secret Agent’ Second Look and the Best Doc Contenders.
- The 2026 Alternative Oscars, a.k.a. the 6th Annual Big Picks! Plus: The Craziest Awards Season in Years.
- Paramount Wins Warner Bros. Now What? Plus: ‘Scream 7,’ Heat 2,’ and ‘Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie’ With Matt Johnson!
- The Final Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Sinners’ Second Look With Autumn Durald Arkapaw!
- Garbage Crime Returns! The Post-‘Heat’ Movie Awards and ‘Crime 101’ With Bart Layton!
- The Heaving ‘Wuthering Heights’ and the Throbbing ‘Pillion’: A Very Horny Valentine's Day Double Feature
- What It’s Really Like at an Awards Show. Plus: Cliff Booth Returns and the Best Super Bowl Trailers!
- ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap!
- Dumpuary Is Dead. These Movies Killed It. Plus: The Best Movies at Sundance and the Catherine O’Hara Hall of Fame.
- The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’
- The Oscar Noms Mailbag: Is ‘Sinners’ vs. ‘One Battle After Another’ a Race? Plus: Best Picture Power Rankings.
- The 2026 Oscar Nominations: Snubs, Surprises, and WTFs
- The Matt Damon and Ben Affleck Movie Draft. Plus: ‘The Rip.’
- ‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ Is Gut-Ripping and Gut-Wrenching. Plus: Mona Fastvold on ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’!