Mike Schulz, Dave Levora, and Darren Pitra move on to lightning round to cover all the films Schulz had seen over the break, and conclude by discussing Schulz’s films of 2024:

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• A Complete Unknown (dir James Mangold, starr Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook, Dan Fogler, Norbert Leo Butz, and Scoot McNairy).
  
• Nosferatu (dir Robert Eggers, starr Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Simon McBurney, and Willem Dafoe).
  
• The Fire Inside (dir Rachel Morrison, starr Ryan Destiny, Brian Tyree Henry, Oluniké Adeliyi, and De’Adre Aziza).
  
• Babygirl (dir Halina Reijn, starr Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Sophie Wilde, and Antonio Banderas).
  
• Mufasa: The Lion King (dir Barry Jenkins, voiced by Seth Rogen, Billy Eichner, Donald Glover, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, John Kani, Aaron Pierre, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Tiffany Boone, Mads Mikkelsen, Thandiwe Newton, Lennie James, Anika Noni Rose, and Blue Ivy Carter).
  
• Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (dir Jeff Fowler, voiced by Jim Carrey, Keanu Reeves, Ben Schwartz, Colleen O’Shaughnessey, James Marsden, Tika Sumpter, and Idris Elba).
  
• The Six Triple Eight (dir Tyler Perry, starr Kerry Washington, Ebony Obsidian, Milauna Jackson, Kylie Jefferson, Shanice Shantay, Sarah Jeffery, Pepi Sonuga, Moriah Brown, Gregg Sulkin, Susan Sarandon, Dean Norris, Sam Waterston and Oprah Winfrey).
  
• Juror #2 (dir Clint Eastwood, starr Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J K Simmons, Chris Messina, Zoey Deutch, Cedric Yarbrough, and Kiefer Sutherland).
  

“A Complete Unknown,” “Nosferatu,” “The Fire Inside,” and “Babygirl”

“Mufasa: The Lion King,” “Sonic the Hedgehog 3,” “The Six Triple Eight,” and “Juror #2”

Reminiscences on the 2024 Movie Year