Pick 3: Justin Chang’s Downer Movies for the Holiday Season

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The New Yorker’s critic on holiday-season films that he’s excited about. “These are not upbeat movies,” Chang admits, “but they are among the most thrilling that I've seen this year.”

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0:00.0	Listener supported, WNYC Studios.
0:10.8	This is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:18.5	This is The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. The two movies facing off for the big holiday weekend at the box office are Wicked Part 1 and Gladiator 2.
0:33.8	The New Yorker's critic Justin Chang reviewed both of them the other day and and his review is a terrific read, but I wanted to hear from Justin.
0:40.8	What else I should be excited about in the crop of movies that comes out to the end of the year?
0:46.2	During this time of year, people want a kind of prototypical holiday movies, something that will make them feel good.
0:52.3	And I'm always sorry to disappoint people every year, but my favorites are probably best described as downers.
0:57.9	These are not upbeat movies.
0:59.6	No elf?
1:00.3	The one...
1:01.0	Santa!
1:03.4	Oh my God!
1:05.4	Santa here?
1:06.6	I know him.
1:08.1	Oh, I love elf.
1:09.3	I love elf.
1:09.3	I love Elf.
1:09.4	That's a staple.
1:12.9	I am taking my eight-year-old to Moana, too.
1:15.8	So I am hopeful about that one.
1:22.4	Well, since my kids are now too old for that, and I'm waiting impatiently, impatiently for grandchildren.
1:26.2	I'll have to, I'm going to sit that one out.
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