
Best Films I Watched This Year - 2024
From a wordless experimental doc to an intimately epic three hour nightmare.
From a wordless experimental doc to an intimately epic three hour nightmare.
If you’re just interested in my top ten, you can skip my preamble and other categories by clicking here. At this time every year comes the inevitable question: was it a good one for movies? This year more than most, there are a multitude of ways to answer that
Solid films you may have missed.
The second edition of my mid-year check-in post.
Kosinski attempts to cash in on the popularity of "Drive to Survive".
"Memento amoris - remember you must love."
"I am wonderful, I deserve to be wonderful, and I contain multitudes."
"It's like they say: you're not ugly, you just don't have money."
"I supposed I'm moved by this absurd performance."
Every shark movie lives in the shadow of Jaws. While not the first, it had an immediate and lasting impact on movie culture and the industry. For one, it spawned a bunch of imitators, most of which failed to make any impression, much less a comparable one. Even once that
The kind of movie which plays a song called "Fight Like a Girl" by Evanescence over the end credits.
"Oh sure, I'm a domestic goddess."
Sally Hawkins going immediately from another Paul King film to an unhinged horror movie is perfection.
"I can see the future. And it's full of pals helping pals."