Friday, December 7, 2018 at 11:59PM List after list every day now. Wheeee, we love this time of year even as we wish the majority of critics would actually wait for the last week of the year or the first week of the new year to do their top ten lists. Nobody has seen enough by early December is our feeling. But anyway here are a few more lists to check out from popular critics and sites...
Thursday, November 22, 2018 at 10:30PM 
Team Experience members were invited to give thanks this week so you'll be hearing from a few of us. Here's Salim Garami...
What's good?
2018 has proven to be a very busy year for yours truly, hence my radio silence here in The Film Experience (I didn't have much time to write on my own personal blog Motorbreath). But it has also proven to be a surprisingly rewarding year for me, both in my personal life after much hassle earlier in the year and run-around later in the year (I have been going back-and-forth between not two but THREE U.S. cities for professional reasons) and in cinema
I think 2018 has been one of the best moviegoing years I've experienced in my whole life. So many surprises and experiments, so many crowdpleasers where I am proudly on that bandwagon, a couple of Oscar contenders that I actually enjoyed. And there's no shortage of music, television, or literature from this year amusing me in some way or another as well so let's dig in...
• Comedic songwriter/teleplay writer/critical writer extraordinaire Demi Adeyugibe has blessed us with not one but TWO funny "fake" credit songs for the nerdiest tentpoles of the summer: Future imitation "Snap" for Avengers: Infinity War and the compulsively catchy Childish Gambino imitation in "L-A-N-D-O" for Solo: A Star Wars Story.
• Tom Cruise trying to figure out where the "payload" is at and finding a giant switch saying "payload" in the helicopter chase climax of Mission: Impossible - Fallout...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 1:45PM An intimate convo this week as Nathaniel R welcomes Murtada Elfadl to the podcast. (Apologies for the oddly imbalanced sound - still fiddling with the equipment, wondering why we're so cursed!)
Index (42 minutes)
00:01 Desiree Akhavan's The Miseducation of Cameron Post
10:10 Mission: Impossible - Fallout and Tom Cruise's ego
21:05 Eighth Grade, Bo Burnham, and authenticity
33:00 Sorry to Bother You and LaKeith Stanfield
39:00 August is a really good month for movies for once!
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Sunday, August 5, 2018 at 3:00PM by Nathaniel R
This weekend looked much the same as last weekend with Mission Impossible - Fallout still dominant and the same limited release hits going strong (Three Identical Strangers and Blindspotting and Eighth Grade... though the latter has now gone wide - yay!). Disney's Christopher Robin opened slightly below expectations but family friendly films sometimes have staying power and audiences reportedly like it...
| Weekend Box Office Estimates (August 3rd-5th) |
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| W I D E 800+ screens |
L I M I T E D excluding prev. wide |
 Mission: Impossible - Fallout |
 Three Identical Strangers |
| 1. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT $35 (cum. $124.4) REVIEW |
1. THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS $1 on 405 screens (cum. $8.4) REVIEW |
| 2.🔺 CHRISTOPHER ROBIN $25 *NEW* REVIEW | 2. BLINDSPOTTING $660k on 523 screens (cum. $3.1) |
| 3.🔺 THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME $12.3 *NEW* |
3. 🔺 ALONG WITH THE GODS 2 $329k on 48 screens *NEW* |
| 4. MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN $9 (cum. $91.3) REVIEW |
4. LEAVE NO TRACE $266k on 169 screens (cum. $5.1) TRAILER DISCUSSION |
| 5. EQUALIZER 2 $8.8 (cum. $79.8) |
5. 🔺 MCQUEEN $181k on 34 screens (cum. $491) REVIEW |
Sunday, August 5, 2018 at 9:00AM Have you ever rapelled down a cliff or climbed up one? I've only down the former (so fun) but I applaud anyone who went to this screening... "What a thrill" (said in Marcia Gay Harden Oscar winning voice). Lots more after the jump...
2,000 feet, 2,000 people, 4 hours of hiking. The most impossible screening of #MissionImpossible Fallout. Thank you all for coming! I wish I could have been there. pic.twitter.com/ufi1FkP6KI
— Tom Cruise (@TomCruise) August 2, 2018
