Later this week, Adam and Josh share their favorite scenes of the 2025 movie year as part of the Year-End Wrap Party. They also announce the winner of the 2025 Golden Brick Award. For this archive episode, we share the Filmspotting review of 2022 Brick winner AFTERSUN, which also went on to become Adam and Josh's shared #1 film of the year.

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Adam and Josh already went long on MARTY SUPREME in the show proper, but wanted to spend a few minutes teasing out their different reads on the end of the film. And those few minutes turned into 30.

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Back from the New Year’s break, Adam and Josh go long on the majesty - and some of the shortcomings - of Josh Safdie’s MARTY SUPREME. Plus, Josh is positive on the new AVATAR, and Adam recommends Gus Van Sant’s DEAD MAN’S WIRE and Kaouther Ben Hania’s THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB.

Intro (00:00:00-00:04:33)

Marty Supreme (00:04:34-00:50:40)

Filmspotting Family (00:50:41-00:56:50)

Avatar: Fire & Ash (00:56:51-01:04:53)

Dead Man’s Wire (01:04:54-01:15:38)

Next Week / Notes (01:15:39-01:21:38)

Poll: 2026 Most Anticipated (01:21:39-01:29:26)

The Voice of Hind Rajab (01:29:27-01:37:34)

Credits / New Releases (01:37:35-01:40:30)

Links:

-DGA’s Director’s Cut Podcast w/Josh Safdie

https://www.dga.org/events/2026/february2026/martysupreme_qna_1225

-Walter Chaw’s 0-star review of Avatar: Fire & Ash

https://filmfreakcentral.net/2025/12/avatar-fire-and-ash-2025/

-Pop Culture Happy Hour on Avatar: Fire & Ash

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/19/nx-s1-5648236/avatar-fire-and-ash-is-one-battle-after-another

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With Adam and Josh's MARTY SUPREME review coming later this week, we're sharing Adam's December 2019 "Uncut Gems" interview with the Safdie Brothers.

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For the first show of the New Year, we’re sharing a couple of previously unaired live conversations: Adam with Matt Singer about Jeff Nichols’s TAKE SHELTER, recorded at Filmspotting Fest; and Adam with Michael Phillips about John Sayles’s 1996 western noir LONE STAR at the City of Chicago’s Siskel & Ebert at 50 celebration.

Intro (00:00:00-00:01:55)

Take Shelter at Filmspotting Fest (00:01:56-00:26:45)

Next Week / Notes (00:26:46-00:29:33)

Lone Star at Siskel & Ebert at 50 (00:29:34-01:04:25)

Credits / New Releases (01:04:26-01:05:44)

Links:

-Filmspotting Fest

⁠⁠​​https://www.filmspotting.net/filmspotting-fest⁠⁠

-Siskel & Ebert at 50

https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/dca/provdrs/chicago_film_office/news/2025/october/siskel_ebert.html

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The morning after recording their epic best-of-the-year show, Adam and Josh sat down with Producer Sam to get his top 10 of 2025, which allowed them to bicker about JAY KELLY, heap further praise on ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, Richard Linklater's output, and Spike Lee, plus meet Sam's new dog, Jacques Demy.

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For the second part of their Top 10 Films of 2025 conversation with Michael Phillips and Vulture critic Alison Willmore, the roundtable gets to the films that made at least two and, in one case, all four of their individual lists. Plus, thoughts on Rob Reiner’s passing, and film-of-the-year picks from ⁠Aisha Harris, Scott Tobias, Keith Phipps, Tasha Robinson, Marya E. Gates, David Chen, Chris Klimek, and Aaron Neuwirth.

Rob Reiner / Notes (00:00:46-00:11:18)

Poll Results: Film of 2025 (00:11:19-00:17:26)

Two-Listers (00:17:26-00:48:55)

Three-Listers (00:48:56-01:30:01)

#1 Films of 2025 (01:30:02-01:53:52)

More ‘Outlier’ Picks (01:53:53-01:58:42)

Credits / New Releases (01:48:43-01:03:50)

Links:

-Rob Reiner Was Good | Matt Zoller Seitz

https://www.vulture.com/article/rob-reiner-was-good.html

-Filmspotting's 2025 Top 10 Picks

https://www.filmspotting.net/top-5-lists-archive/1044-top-10-films-of-2025

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Adam and Josh’s Top 10 Films of 2025 conversation with Michael Phillips and Vulture critic Alison Willmore went so long that it had to be split into two parts. In this offering, the roundtable shares their "outlier" choices, and we hear film of the year picks from ⁠Matt Singer⁠⁠, ⁠Amy Nicholson⁠⁠, Roxana Hadadi⁠, ⁠Mitchell Beaupre⁠⁠, and more. Plus, the finalists for the ⁠2025 Golden Brick Award⁠⁠.

Intro (00:00:00-00:06:16)

The Year in Movies (00:06:17-00:25:06)

'Outest' Outliers (00:25:07-01:00:22)

'Expected' Outliers (01:00:23-01:53:52)

More Top 10s / Brick Finalists (01:53:53-02:21:55)

Links:

Ted Gioia On the Future's Demand for Human Curators

https://youtu.be/OF8kBtVNJXI?si=dF0akmcpGBJlvf4F&t=1750

-"Derek Cianfrance’s Midlife Crisis" | Roxana Hadadi

https://www.vulture.com/article/roofman-director-derek-cianfrance-interview.html

-Poll: 2025 Golden Brick

⁠https://poll.fm/16408482

-Filmspotting's Top 10s

https://www.filmspotting.net/top10lists

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