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The 2023 Movie Auction Returns!
The Big Picture
July 7, 2023 · 1:47:56 · ▶ Listen on Spotify
Hosts: Amanda Dobbins, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey
Edition: 2023 Returns
The 2023 Returns Movie Auction
Budget: $1000 each
| Movie | Price | ▶ |
|---|---|---|
| Sean Fennessey — $881 spent | ||
| Anyone But You | $220 | ▶ 59:57 |
| Hit Man | $175 | ▶ 1:07:47 |
| The Holdovers | $185 | ▶ 1:09:12 |
| The Creator | $300 | ▶ 1:13:26 |
| The Boy and the Heron | $1 | ▶ 1:34:02 |
| Amanda Dobbins — $980 spent | ||
| The Zone of Interest | $160 | ▶ 28:10 |
| Priscilla | $727 | ▶ 49:02 |
| Passages | $20 | ▶ 1:26:18 |
| May December | $73 | ▶ 1:36:11 |
| Chris Ryan — $1136 spent | ||
| The Bikeriders | $300 | ▶ 49:00 |
| Nickel Boys | $80 | ▶ 1:22:10 |
| Apartment 7A | $100 | ▶ 1:23:13 |
| The Iron Claw | $311 | ▶ 1:28:08 |
| Quicksand | $345 | ▶ 1:38:00 |
As heard: our transcript read of this auction could not be reconciled with the show’s own rule of exactly five films per bidder within $1,000, so some purchases may sit with the wrong bidder.
Winner: Amanda Dobbins · Amanda 52.3% · Sean 24.3% · Chris 23.5% · 3,043 votes · margin 28 pts
Decided by audience poll on X · counts read off the ballot
Last year’s reckoning
- Sean Fennessey — Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One — On eve of release
- Sean Fennessey — Oppenheimer — Coming later this month
- Sean Fennessey — Air — Good, not great
- Sean Fennessey — Ferrari — Likely festival release this year
- Sean Fennessey — Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse — Favorite movie of the year so far
- Amanda Dobbins — Killers of the Flower Moon — Highly anticipated; haven't watched trailer
- Amanda Dobbins — Barbie — Coming soon
- Amanda Dobbins — Napoleon — Could be a big movie, hard to tell
- Amanda Dobbins — Leave the World Behind — Still coming
- Amanda Dobbins — Blitz — Uncertain if coming this year
- Chris Ryan — Maestro — Netflix; might be phenomenal
- Chris Ryan — The Killer — Netflix; different weight
- Chris Ryan — Dune: Part Two — Most anticipated of second half
- Chris Ryan — Challengers — Trailer dropped
- Chris Ryan — Havoc — Might not exist / uncertain release
Movies Referenced (100)
10 mentions · Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan, Amanda Dobbins▶ 10:26IMDb ↗Lb ↗
9 mentions · Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan, Amanda Dobbins▶ 9:40IMDb ↗Lb ↗
6 mentions · Amanda Dobbins, Sean Fennessey▶ 1:25:30IMDb ↗Lb ↗
5 mentions · Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins, Chris Ryan▶ 55:26IMDb ↗Lb ↗
5 mentions · Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins, Chris Ryan▶ 10:25IMDb ↗Lb ↗
5 mentions · Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins▶ 31:34IMDb ↗Lb ↗
Directors Referenced (24)
7 mentions · Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey · Known for Monsters, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Godzilla▶ 1:13:41IMDb ↗Lb ↗
6 mentions · Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan · Known for Tenet, Interstellar, Inception▶ 1:06:46IMDb ↗Lb ↗
6 mentions · Amanda Dobbins, Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey · Known for The Godfather Part III, The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation▶ 40:02IMDb ↗Lb ↗
5 mentions · Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan · Known for The Goonies▶ 54:28IMDb ↗Lb ↗
4 mentions · Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey · Known for Take Shelter, Midnight Special▶ 49:23IMDb ↗Lb ↗
4 mentions · Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey · Known for Martha Marcy May Marlene, The Iron Claw▶ 1:27:49IMDb ↗Lb ↗
3 mentions · Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey · Known for The Graduate, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?▶ 8:37IMDb ↗Lb ↗
3 mentions · Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins · Known for Waking Life, Before Midnight, Slacker▶ 1:05:55IMDb ↗Lb ↗
2 mentions · Sean Fennessey · Known for Nebraska, The Descendants, Election▶ 1:08:26IMDb ↗Lb ↗
2 mentions · Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey · Known for Foxcatcher, Capote, Moneyball▶ 43:22IMDb ↗Lb ↗
2 mentions · Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan · Known for Lars and the Real Girl, The Finest Hours▶ 1:06:16IMDb ↗Lb ↗
2 mentions · Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan · Known for Under the Skin, The Zone of Interest, Birth▶ 29:05IMDb ↗Lb ↗
Actors Referenced (97)
35 mentions · Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan, Amanda Dobbins▶ 2:07IMDb ↗Lb ↗
7 mentions · Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey · Known for Frankenstein, Saltburn, Priscilla▶ 40:08IMDb ↗Lb ↗
6 mentions · Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan, Amanda Dobbins · Known for Logan, A Complete Unknown, The Predator▶ 50:11IMDb ↗Lb ↗
6 mentions · Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan · Known for Sideways, Cinderella Man, American Splendor▶ 1:08:31IMDb ↗Lb ↗
5 mentions · Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan · Known for 45 Years, Swimming Pool, Melancholia▶ 1:19:42IMDb ↗Lb ↗
5 mentions · Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan · Known for Barbie, Lady Bird, Mistress America▶ 13:33IMDb ↗Lb ↗
5 mentions · Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins · Known for Tenet, Malcolm & Marie▶ 34:21IMDb ↗Lb ↗
5 mentions · Chris Ryan, Amanda Dobbins · Known for The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!▶ 40:02IMDb ↗Lb ↗
4 mentions · Sean Fennessey · Known for Argo, Little Miss Sunshine, Glengarry Glen Ross▶ 6:55IMDb ↗Lb ↗
4 mentions · Chris Ryan · Known for Leave the World Behind▶ 48:25IMDb ↗Lb ↗
4 mentions · Sean Fennessey, Chris Ryan · Known for Marriage Story, Greenberg▶ 13:37IMDb ↗Lb ↗
Writers Referenced (13)
6 mentions · Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins, Chris Ryan · Known for Primary Colors▶ 1:27:54IMDb ↗Lb ↗
5 mentions · Amanda Dobbins, Sean Fennessey · Known for The Zone of Interest▶ 29:13IMDb ↗Lb ↗
4 mentions · Sean Fennessey, Amanda Dobbins · Known for Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle▶ 1:33:56IMDb ↗Lb ↗
3 mentions · Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey · Known for Nickel Boys▶ 1:21:18IMDb ↗Lb ↗
2 mentions · Sean Fennessey · Known for Wuthering Heights, Saltburn, Promising Young Woman▶ 1:41:07IMDb ↗Lb ↗
2 mentions · Chris Ryan · Known for Guardians of the Galaxy, Superman, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2▶ 43:37IMDb ↗Lb ↗
2 mentions · Chris Ryan · Known for The Black Phone, Doctor Strange, Sinister▶ 22:37IMDb ↗Lb ↗
2 mentions · Sean Fennessey · Known for Down by Law▶ 56:18IMDb ↗Lb ↗
1 mentions · Sean Fennessey · Known for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Inside Llewyn Davis, A Serious Man▶ 1:42:02IMDb ↗Lb ↗
1 mentions · Sean Fennessey · Known for Avatar, Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgment Day▶ 1:18:34IMDb ↗Lb ↗
1 mentions · Chris Ryan · Known for West Side Story, West Side Story▶ 10:45IMDb ↗Lb ↗