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A Look at Weiner, The Lobster, and Probably Some Other Movies with Odd Titles Too

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America's Greatest Living Film Critic David Edelstein has called "Weiner," the new documentary about former Congressman Anthony Weiner's ill-fated 2013 run for mayor of New York City, "one of the most provocative [docs] of its kind" that he's seen.

And "The Lobster," a dystopian love story with "a doozy of a premise" that NPR has been promoting seemingly on a loop for weeks (months?), may be "the weirdest movie" of the year, but it's a "savory cinematic treat" with a 90 percent score on the Tomatometer.

While summer descends upon us and theaters fill up with Avengers movies and X-Men movies and Ninja Turtles movies and video game movies, there are interesting, littler movies out too. This hour, Edelstein joins us to talk about a few of them. And maybe we'll get to the X-Men movie too, just for fun.

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  • David Edelstein - America's Greatest Living Film Critic; he writes for New York magazine and reviews movies for NPR's Fresh Air and CBS Sunday Morning
  • Roy Occhiogrosso - Managing director at Global Strategy Group

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Colin McEnroe, Greg Hill, and Chion Wolf contributed to this show.

Jonathan is a producer for ‘The Colin McEnroe Show.’ His work has been heard nationally on NPR and locally on Connecticut Public’s talk shows and news magazines. He’s as likely to host a podcast on minor league baseball as he is to cover a presidential debate almost by accident. Jonathan can be reached at jmcnicol@ctpublic.org.

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