AMA | November 2025

Hello everyone, welcome to the November 2025 Ask Me Anything edition of the Mindscape podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. I thought we'd do something different for the intro today. I'm going to elevate a question that was asked for the AMA up to the intro because, I mean, maybe this is something that would be interesting to do going forward because Teasing people with one good question can get them interested in it, but in fact, in this case, it just sparked a separate thought in my brain that was not an answer to the question that works well for an intro.

So the question is from one armed wolf who says, simple question, what have been your favorite films this year, and do you have any strong recommendations? For my part, Sinners and One Battle After Another? both feel essential in their own way. So the sad news is I don't have any great list of strong films this year. Sorry about that.

Just have not been going out to movies these days. I I feel bad about that, because I am a big fan of movies, of cinema, of literally going to the theater, having the popcorn, watching the movies. It's just that My life this year has not been amenable to that particular activity that much. I did see Sinners, I thought Sinners was amazing.

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