#853: Best Performances of 2021 / Licorice Pizza / Nightmare Alley

The end-of-year conversation starts this week as Adam and Josh talk through their Chicago Film Critics Association ballots, naming their favorite twenty or so performances of the 2021 movie year. Plus reviews of LICORICE PIZZA, Paul Thomas Anderson’s nostalgia trip to 70s-era San Fernando Valley, and NIGHTMARE ALLEY, a nasty new noir from Guillermo del Toro.

0:00 - Billboard
1:14 - Best Performances of 2021
Taj Mahal, “Tomorrow May Not Be Your Day”
48:16 - Review: “Nightmare Alley”
1:03:20 - Next Week / Polls / Notes
1:13:06 - Review: “Licorice Pizza”
1:30:38 - Outro / Outtake