Hello listeners and Happy New Year! For 2024, the Crit Club made the joint resolution to ride off on a magic carpet and never look back. To help us in that endeavor, we watched 1940’s epic fantasy adventure The Thief of Bagdad. Plucked from 1,001 Arabian Night, and subsequently used as the inspiration for Disney’s Aladdin, this special effects-heavy spectacle follows a usurped king on a quest to find a lost love. Listen along and see if this was an oasis in the desert of January, or a Technicolor case of sun poisoning. Next week, it's an Angela pick! Join us to watch the movie (not the cooking show) The Barefoot Contessa from 1954. You can follow the whole of our podcast, aided by ⁠this helpful spreadsheet⁠, which documents all the scores we gave to the movies we have watched. And drop us a line! You can email us at [email protected] or find us on Instagram or Threads with the handle @critclubpodcast. Crit Club's theme song and art were made by co-host ⁠Peter Allen Clark⁠.