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Along Came Polly
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What’s Aged the Best?
The enduring score, title spoken onscreen and quiet Western-adjacent landscapes
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Approx. transcript time · 01:18:46Read transcript
- The enduring score, title spoken onscreen and quiet Western-adjacent landscapes are praised. — Bill Simmons
- The on-set romance and Jack’s dreams are discussed; ordinary unlucky men with bleak futures feel unusual in current movies. — Bill Simmons
- The attractive ensemble, cow-castration exchange, score and Ledger’s performance hold up. — Bill Simmons
- Aged-best attractive ensemble praise explicitly names Michelle Williams, observed Ann Hathaway, Kate Mera, Linda Cardalini and Anna Farris. — Bill Simmons
The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance
Michelle Williams is favored, with Robbie also nominated and a collective co-winner proposal for the other short-lived victims.
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Approx. transcript time · 01:08:42Read transcript
- Michelle Williams is favored, with Robbie also nominated and a collective co-winner proposal for the other short-lived victims. — Bill Simmons
The most 1995 thing
The portable Sony television; young Michelle Williams was an earlier nominee
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Approx. transcript time · 00:38:03Read transcript
- Young Michelle Williams is nominated as a 1995 marker, followed by discussion of her reported disavowal of the film.
- The short-lived portable Sony television is favored as the most 1995 object. — Bill Simmons
- The finale’s effects, paper credit-card authorization machine, and the actors’ thin and young appearance are additional 1995 markers. — Van Lathan
Recasting Couch
Recognizable young stars considered, then challenged
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Approx. transcript time · 01:07:00Read transcript
- Affleck, Damon and Paltrow are floated as an example of using recognizable actors. — Bill Simmons
- Michelle Williams, Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal are proposed, then the premise is challenged because recognizable actors would undermine it. — Bill Simmons
Recasting Couch
Michelle Williams as Polly; alternatives considered
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Approx. transcript time · 01:16:47Read transcript
- For Polly, recasting considers Paltrow too polished, Ryder plausible, and a younger Meg Ryan or Geena Davis a natural fit. Holmes is floated but rejected while her missing romantic-comedy career is lamented. — Bill Simmons
- Heather Graham is considered almost too striking; Michelle Williams is the final preferred replacement and a chance to give her happier material. Julia Louis-Dreyfus is plausible but possibly too old, Courteney Cox rejected, and Kudrow plausible but also too old. — Bill Simmons
The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance
Kenneth Lonergan’s parenting-comment cameo.
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Approx. transcript time · 01:15:53Read transcript
- Anna Beresnikov and Gretchen Moff are candidates; Michelle Williams is judged too central despite limited screen time, and Matthew Broderick’s youth-pastor character is praised.
- Lonergan’s brief on-screen parenting comment is proposed and accepted as the choice. — Bill Simmons
The Rick Dalton Award for the Greatest Fucking Acting I’ve Ever Seen
Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams in the hill encounter.
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Approx. transcript time · 00:41:47Read transcript
- The newly announced acting award goes to both performers in the hill encounter, with praise for restraint, blocked eye contact and the effort to connect.
- The dialogue’s interruptions, apology and fire imagery are praised as precise and more powerful than showing the missing marital fight. — Chris Ryan
Apex Mountain
No affirmative selection
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Approx. transcript time · 01:25:27Read transcript
- On paper this is not Stone's Apex since her career starts here, she won an Oscar for La La Land, and made bigger and more serious films; she should have been nominated for this. — Amanda Dobbins
- The 2010 Best Actress field is recited (Natalie Portman winning for Black Swan, Annette Bening, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Lawrence, Michelle Williams); there was room for Stone but the Oscars do not acknowledge comedy; not technically her Apex, but she does not reach it without this. — Amanda Dobbins
- Her Vanity Fair cover came the following year, thought to be October 2011; her fame would probably have happened anyway, and this is not anywhere close to her Apex. — Juliet Litman
- Her Apex is probably La La Land, though the Oscar victory lap was short because of the Moonlight mix-up; a disagreement says the Oscar let her get any movie made, and she chose Cruella. — Amanda Dobbins
- Cruella draws concerns as a children's origin story for a dog-skinning villain, versus the pitch of evil Emma Stone; Easy A made an equally unpromising premise work. — Amanda Dobbins
- It is not anyone's Apex, a pivotal canon movie without a peak; a hedged suggestion that it is probably director Will Gluck's peak "in my opinion" gets a "That's true." — Juliet Litman
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