"Weapons"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2025

⏱️ 151 minutes

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Summary

For this week's main podcast review, Ema Sasic, Dan Bayer, Katie Johnson, Cody Dericks & Brendan Hodges join me to review the latest film from filmmaker Zach Cregger, "Weapons," starring Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Cary Christopher, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Benedict Wong & Amy Madigan. Following the success of his previous horror film "Barbarian," anticipation has been high to see how the former The Whitest Kids U' Know member would top himself and the marketing by brilliant Warner Bros. has done a great job at presenting the core mystery to the audience without giving away any spoilers, making this one of the must-see horror films of the year. What did we ultimately think of it? Please tune in as we discuss the performances, writing, craftsmanship, the themes, the film's much-discussed reveal and ending, plus its awards season chances, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. Thank you for listening, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is our review of weapons.
0:06.0	Um, I, I just want to say how very sorry I am from...
0:17.0	She to be locked up until she tells us what happened.
0:20.0	The truth is, is that I want an answer just as bad as all of you.
0:25.6	We're talking about 17 kids and one classroom.
0:30.6	I want to know what happened in that classroom.
0:33.6	Why just her classroom? Why only her?
0:36.6	We're our children. I love those kids.
0:39.3	This is a true story that happened right here in my town.
0:44.3	A lot of people die in a lot of really weird ways in the story.
0:49.3	But you're not going to find it in the news.
0:51.3	Those kids walked out of those homes.
0:54.8	No one pulled them out.
0:56.9	No one forced them.
0:58.7	Where do you see that I don't?
1:01.5	Show me.
1:02.8	Where did you go?
1:04.3	There's something very, very wrong going on.
1:07.9	All right, everybody, you were just listening to the trailer for weapons, and the story is
1:11.7	as follows.
1:12.8	When all but one child from the same classroom mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly
1:18.6	the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
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