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The Big Picture

A movie podcast from The Ringer — Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins on new releases, the movie business, and the film canon.

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The "Ask Sean Anything" Mailbag. Plus: The Amazing Life of a Character Actor, with Patrick Fischler.

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The Canadian Movie Draft Live from Toronto!

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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ and the Spider-Man Movie Rankings

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Hosts

Sean Fennessey Amanda Dobbins Chris Ryan Bill Simmons Joanna Robinson Van Lathan Mallory Rubin Wesley Morris Charles Holmes

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Tony (2009)

The Odyssey (2016)

Supergirl (1984)

Office Romance (1977)

Scary Movie (2000)

Masters of the Universe (1987)

Obsession (1976)

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

Michael (1996)

One Battle After Another (2025)

Wuthering Heights (2026)

Mamma Mia! (2008)

Send Help (2026)

The Rip (2026)

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)

No Other Choice (2025)

The Social Network (2010)

The Housemaid (2025)

There Will Be Blood (2007)

Marty Supreme (2025)

Is This Thing On? (2025)

Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)

Hamnet (2025)

Jay Kelly (2025)

It Was Just an Accident (2025)

Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

25th Hour (2002)

Sentimental Value (2025)

Wicked: For Good (2025)

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

The Running Man (1987)

Lady Bird (2017)

Predator: Badlands (2025)

Mulholland Drive (2001)

Bugonia (2025)

In the Mood for Love (2000)

A House of Dynamite (2025)

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025)

Parasite (2019)

Black Phone 2 (2025)

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Marie Antoinette (2006)

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

Weapons (2025)

Highest 2 Lowest (2025)

Get Out (2017)

The Hurt Locker (2008)

No Country for Old Men (2007)

Michael Clayton (2007)

Bring It On (2000)

Happy Gilmore 2 (2025)

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

Moneyball (2011)

The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

Superman (2025)

Oppenheimer (2023)

F1: The Movie (2025)

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

Elio (2025)

28 Years Later (2025)

Before Sunset (2004)

Materialists (2025)

Ballerina (2025)

The Phoenician Scheme (2025)

Shrek (2001)

Lilo & Stitch (2002)

Spirited Away (2001)

Final Destination (2000)

Melancholia (2011)

Thunderbolts* (2025)

Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

The Accountant 2 (2025)

The Shrouds (2024)

Children of Men (2006)

Warfare (2025)

Something's Gotta Give (2003)

A Minecraft Movie (2025)

Holland (2025)

The Handmaiden (2016)

The Alto Knights (2025)

The Electric State (2025)

Black Bag (2025)

Mickey 17 (2025)

Anora (2024)

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025)

Captain America: Brave New World (2025)

A Complete Unknown (2024)

Superman (1978)

The Terminator (1984)

Venom: The Last Dance (2024)

Terrifier 3 (2024)

Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

Alien: Romulus (2024)

Dìdi (2024)

Sing Sing (2023)

Trap (2024)

Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

Twisters (2024)

Longlegs (2024)

A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

The Bikeriders (2023)

Inside Out 2 (2024)

Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024)

Hit Man (2023)

IF (2024)

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)

I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

Dune: Part Two (2024)

Monkey Man (2024)

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)

Babylon (2022)

Road House (2024)

Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

Drive-Away Dolls (2024)

The Beekeeper (2024)

Bob Marley: One Love (2024)

Anyone But You (2023)

The Iron Claw (2023)

Ferrari (2023)

American Fiction (2023)

Maestro (2023)

Wonka (2023)

The Boy and the Heron (2023)

Leave the World Behind (2023)

Godzilla Minus One (2023)

Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (2023)

Fair Play (2023)

The Exorcist: Believer (2023)

The Creator (2023)

Stop Making Sense (1984)

Dumb Money (2023)

A Haunting in Venice (2023)

Talk to Me (2022)

Mission: Impossible (1996)

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

Asteroid City (2023)

The Flash (2023)

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)

Past Lives (2023)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

Fast X (2023)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023)

Beau Is Afraid (2023)

Renfield (2023)

Casablanca (1942)

Air (2023)

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)

Scream VI (2023)

Creed III (2023)

Cocaine Bear (2023)

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023)

Knock at the Cabin (2023)

Plane (2023)

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

M3GAN (2022)

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

Tár (2022)

Black Adam (2022)

Ticket to Paradise (2022)

Halloween Ends (2022)

Avatar (2009)

Bros (2022)

Blonde (2022)

Don't Worry Darling (2022)

The Woman King (2022)

Barbarian (2022)

Prey (2022)

Bullet Train (2022)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

The Gray Man (2022)

Nope (2022)

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

The Black Phone (2021)

Elvis (2022)

Lightyear (2022)

Spiderhead (2022)

Jurassic World: Dominion (2022)

Hustle (2022)

Ex Machina (2014)

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

Spider-Man (2002)

Nightmare Alley (2021)

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)

The Northman (2022)

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Fargo (1996)

Morbius (2022)

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)

Dune (1984)

The Power of the Dog (2021)

Free Guy (2021)

The Batman (2022)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)

Moonfall (2022)

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

House of Gucci (2021)

Encanto (2021)

The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

Scream (1996)

Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

Don't Look Up (2021)

West Side Story (1961)

Licorice Pizza (2021)

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

Last Night in Soho (2021)

The French Dispatch (2021)

The Last Duel (2021)

Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

Dear Evan Hansen (2021)

The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)

Cry Macho (2021)

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

Old (2021)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

Woodstock (1970)

Blow Out (1981)

Black Widow (2021)

No Sudden Move (2021)

In the Heights (2021)

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

A Quiet Place Part II (2020)

Cruella (2021)

Army of the Dead (2021)

Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)

The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)

Tenet (2020)

Without Remorse (2021)

Mortal Kombat (2021)

Bad Trip (2021)

Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)

Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)

Promising Young Woman (2020)

Minari (2020)

Nomadland (2020)

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

Malcolm & Marie (2021)

The Little Things (2021)

Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)

Mank (2020)

Hillbilly Elegy (2020)

Dazed and Confused (1993)

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)

On the Rocks (2020)

Hubie Halloween (2020)

The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

Psycho (1960)

Boys State (2020)

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)

The Old Guard (2020)

Hamilton (2020)

The King of Staten Island (2020)

Trolls World Tour (2020)

Aliens (1986)

Onward (2020)

The Invisible Man (2020)

Ford v Ferrari (2019)

Doctor Sleep (2019)

Marriage Story (2019)

The Amazing Johnathan Documentary (2019)

Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019)

The Hunt (2012)

David Crosby: Remember My Name (2019)

The Farewell (2019)

Stuber (2019)

The Art of Self-Defense (2019)

Midsommar (2019)

Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)

Yesterday (2019)

Annabelle Comes Home (2019)

Toy Story 4 (2019)

Men in Black: International (2019)

Chernobyl: Abyss (2021)

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

Under the Silver Lake (2018)

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Us (2019)

Captain Marvel (2019)

Greta (2018)

Green Book (2018)

Fighting with My Family (2019)

Black Panther (2018)

Free Solo (2018)

The Wife (2017)

Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)

Minding the Gap (2018)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

A Star Is Born (2018)

Blaze (1989)

The Land of Steady Habits (2018)

Searching (2018)

Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)

Sicario (2015)

Incredibles 2 (2018)

Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

First Reformed (2017)

Deadpool 2 (2018)

Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

It Comes at Night (2017)

The Lost City of Z (2016)

Win It All (2017)

The Discovery (2017)

A Cure for Wellness (2016)

Moonlight (2016)

O.J.: Made in America (2016)

20th Century Women (2016)

Hidden Figures (2016)