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What does The Fall Guy tell us about the future of the blockbuster?

Film critics Barry Hertz and Teri Hart review the new Ryan Gosling/Emily Blunt action-comedy, and why it had a lukewarm opening weekend at the box office.

Film critics Barry Hertz and Teri Hart review the new Ryan Gosling/Emily Blunt film

Ryan Gosling consults a tablet, while sitting on the hood of a truck with a shattered windshield.  To his left, director David Leitch is pointing off screen.
Director David Leitch and Ryan Gosling (as Colt Seavers) on the set of THE FALL GUY (Universal Pictures)

Today on Commotion, film critics Barry Hertz and Teri Hart give us their takes on The Fall Guy, a hybrid action-romantic comedy starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt (and the highly-anticipated follow-up to their respective summers of Barbenheimer).

The panel discusses whether it's worth seeing in theatres, whether it makes movies stars out of its lead actors, and how well it succeeds at celebrating the behind-the-scenes workers on film sets who rarely get public recognition.

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You can listen to the full discussion from today's show on CBC Listen or on our podcast, Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, available wherever you get your podcasts.


Panel produced by Stuart Berman.