MY TOP 20 FILMS OF 2024
20. Nightbitch (Marielle Heller, US)
19. I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun, US)
18. Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass, US)
16. Janet Planet (Annie Baker, US)
15. Sometimes I Think About Dying (Rachel Lambert, US)
14. A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg, US)
13. Femme (Sam H. Freeman, Ng Choon Ping, UK)
12. The Beast (Betrand Bonello, France)
11. Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross, US)
10. Seagrass (Meredith Hama-Brown, Canada)
9. Problemista (Julio Torres, US)
8. The Feeling that the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (Joanna Arnow, US)
7. Flow (Gints Zilbalodis, Latvia)
6. The Brutalist (Brady Corbet, UK/US)
5. The Substance (Coralie Fargeat, France/UK)
4. Kinds of Kindness (Yorgos Lanthimos, UK/US)
3. No Other Land (Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Norway/Palestine)
2. Challengers (Luca Guadagnino, Italy/US)
1. Anora (Sean Baker, US)
ADDITIONAL CATEGORIES
Overrated: TIE: Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, US) and Wicked (Jon M. Chu, US)
Underrated: Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood, US)
Accurately Rated: Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve, US)
Most Disappointing: Civil War (Alex Garland, UK/US)
A Pleasant Surprise: Rebel Ridge (Jeremy Saulnier, US)
Best TV Series: TIE: Baby Reindeer (Netflix) and The Penguin (HBO)
Favorite Rewatches/ Re-discoveries of 2024:
The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946)
Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk,1956)
Favorite Discoveries of 2024:
Patterns (Fielder Cook, 1956)
The People's Joker (Vera Drew, 2022)
The Remains of the Day (James Ivory, 1993)
History is Made at Night (Frank Borzage,1937)
Hud (Martin Ritt,1963)
Worst Films of 2024 (in no particular order):
Twisters (Lee Isaac Chung, US)
Joker: Folie A Deux (Todd Phillips, US)
Unfrosted (Jerry Seinfeld, US)
The Front Room (Max and Sam Eggers, US)
Argyle (Matthew Vaugh, US)
This Is Me...Now (Jennifer Lopez, US)
Madame Web (S.J. Clarkson, US)
Afraid (Chris Weitz, US)
Borderlands (Eli Roth, US)
It Ends With Us (Justin Baldoni, US)
This is very welcome, of course. Really looking forward to The Brutalist and The Nickel Boys.
ReplyDeleteI really liked History is Made at Night too. Back in April I gave it a 4.5/5!
ReplyDelete"A grand, grand entertainment and just about all the comedy, romance, and adventure one could ask for in a movie. Who would have thought that kindly Dr Frankenstein could be so evil?? They mention the Hindenburg three times (and it did go down in flames in 1937, the year this movie came out), but that’s a bait and switch. Ravishing black blacks and white whites and an iceberg, but really: Jean Arthur flinging off her shoes in the middle of a tango = production values."