I have to say 2024 had some real cinematic highs but lots of lows and just plain old mediocrity. Plenty I haven’t seen mainly because I couldn’t be bothered or they aren’t out yet. I haven’t seen Babygirl, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, The Last Showgirl, Nosferatu, Oh, Canada, September 5 so those will be on my 2025 list. The top 4 are the only films I gave 5 stars to this year and I’m fairly generous with my star ratings which says a lot. 2025 looks pretty promising and maybe that new Terry Gilliam film will go into production that would be nice. * indicates I saw in the theatre
MASTERPIECES
1. Strange Darling * x2
2. Close Your Eyes *
3. Love Lies Bleeding * x2
4. Dune: Part Two * x2
PRETTY GREAT
5. I Saw the TV Glow * x2
6. Queer * x2
7. The Beast *
8. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga * x2
9. Civil War *
10. Anora *
11. Longlegs * x2
12. Hit Man *
13. Juror #2 * x2
14. Blitz (I don’t get the hate, it’s conventional but so what!) *
15. Memoir of a Snail *
16. MaXXXine * x2
17. Kinds of Kindness *
BEST DOCUMENTARIES I SAW THIS YEAR
18. DEVO *
19. ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor!
I SAW THIS INSANITY TWICE IN AN ALMOST EMPTY IMAX, BOTH TIMES WITH SOME FRIENDS AND WE HOWLED IN AWE AND LAUGHTER… BEST CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE OF THE YEAR
20. Megalopolis * x2
VERY GOOD
21. Challengers *
22. Alien: Romulus *
23. The Last Stop in Yuma County
24. Drive-Away Dykes (should’ve kept the original title) *
25. The Apprentice *
26. A Different Man * x2
27. Robot Dreams *
28. Flow *
29. Perfect Days *
30. Smile 2 *
31. Rebel Ridge
32. The Room Next Door *
33. The 4:30 Movie
34. Pavements *
35. Late Night with the Devil * x3
36. La Cocina *
37. His Three Daughters
38. Monkey Man *
39. Kneecap *
40. Hard Truths *
41. Green Border *
42. American Fiction *
43. Sasquatch Sunset *
LONGEST FILM I SAW IN THE MOVIE THEATRE GOES TOO…
44. Occupied City *
I WENT TO THE DOCS
45. Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger *
46. Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
47. Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story *
48. Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands
49. Scala!!! *
50. Chasing Chasing Amy *
51. Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus *
I ENJOYED THESE
52. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice * x2
53. Dogman (more action films about paraplegic incel drag queens who love their doggies please!)
54. Bookworm
55. Emilia Pérez (genius and godawful in equal measure, I know it has its lovers and haters in equal measure) *
56. Nightbitch *
57. Maria *
58. The Dead Don’t Hurt *
59. Gladiator II *
60. Heretic *
61. Wildcat
62. Riddle of Fire *
63. The Iron Claw *
64. Lisa Frankenstein
65. A Real Pain
66. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
67. Paddington in Peru *
68. Between the Temples *
69. The Outrun *
70. The Wild Robot
71. Wicked *
72. The Animal Kingdom
73. Conclave *
74. National Anthem
75. Big Boys
76. Hundreds of Beavers
SEAN PENN STILL MAKES FILMS SOMETIMES WHEN HE ISN’T GETTING DRUNK WHILE WAITING TO SEE HIS PAL ZELENSKYY, HERE ARE TWO OF THEM!
77. Asphalt City
78. Daddio
79. Chime
80. Humane
81. Deadpool & Wolverine *
82. Terrifier 2 *
83. Fly Me to the Moon *
84. Caligula: The Ultimate Cut *
85. Inside Out 2 *
86. Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire *
87. Monster *
88. Evil Does Not Exist (or as I dubbed it ending does not exist) *
89. Watchmen: Chapter I
MORE DOCUMENTARIES!
90. STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces
91. Will & Harper
92. From Darkness to Light
93. Jim Henson Idea Man
94. Rather
95. Remembering Gene Wilder
96. Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln
97. Faye
98. Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind
99. Let the Canary Sing
100. MoviePass, MovieCrash
101. The Truth vs. Alex Jones
102. The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem
103. The Greatest Night in Pop
104. Michel Gondry: Do It Yourself
105. Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
106. Crass: The Sound of Free Speech (The Story of Reality Asylum) *
107. An American Bombing: The Road to April 19th
DECENT NOT GREAT!
108. The Order
109. Saturday Night
110. The Book of Solutions
111. Woman of the Hour
112. The First Omen
113. Better Man *
114. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes *
115. Poolman
116. The Fall Guy *
117. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 *
118. Rumours *
119. Mothers’ Instinct *
120. Ghostbuster: Frozen Empire *
121. Your Monster
122. Speak No Evil *
123. The Thicket
124. Yannick
125. I’m Still Here *
126. Winner
127. Good One *
128. Timestalker *
129. Lee *
130. Kill *
131. The Beekeeper *
132. The Silent Hour
133. Twisters *
134. Starve Acre
135. Shirley
136. Thelma *
137. The Crime is Mine *
138. One Life *
139. The End We Start From *
140. The Settlers *
141. Asleep in My Palm
142. It’s Not Me
143. Modern Masters: SS Rajamouli
PEOPLE WENT CRAZY FOR THIS, SOME OF TBE WORST EDITING I’VE EVER SEEN AND DESPERATELY NEEDED A NARRATOR
144. Soundtrack to a Coup d’État *
145. Power
146. William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill
PAINLESSLY MEDICORE
147. Apartment 7A
148. A Quiet Place: Day One
149. Trap *
150. We Live in Time
151. Tim Travers & the Time Travelers Paradox *
152. My Old Ass *
153. The Watchers *
154. La Chimera *
155. Sing Sing *
156. The Piano Lesson
157. The Return
158. Salem’s Lot *
159. The Critic *
160. Wolfs
161. Abigail
162. Small Things Like These *
163. Road House
164. Never Let Go *
165. The Killer
ONLY BRAT SUMMER I HAD WAS WATCHING THIS
166. BRAT
PEOPLE REALLY LIKED THESE FILMS… I DID NOT!
167. The Substance * x2
168. Immaculate *
169. The People’s Joker
170. Bird *
171. Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point *
172. Blink Twice *
WE ARE HITTING SOME SERIOUS TURBULENCE HERE!
173. Carry-On
174. Freud’s Last Session
175. Coup!
176. Upgraded
177. Ricky Stanicky
178. The Convert
179. Killer Heat
180. Argylle
181. Venom: The Last Dance *
182. Afraid
183. The American Society of Magical Negroes
184. Nutcrackers
185. The Stranger
186. Destroy All Monsters
187. The Listener
THE USA HAS A LOT TO ANSWER FOR THESE TWO DOCUMENTARIES
188. Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary
189. Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
SUPERHEROS FILMS HAD A VERY BAD YEAR!
190. Madame Web
PRETTY BAD BUT NOT TERRIBLE
191. Blood for Dust
192. Arcadia
193. Bob Marley: One Love
194. Origin *
I LOVE BOLD CINEMATIC SWINS BUT THESE TWO I DID NOT LIKE!
195. Joker: Folie à Deux *
196. Here
JUST BAD
197. Being Maria
198. Y2K
199. The Absence of Eden
200. Brothers
THE FILM PEOPLE THOUGHT BLONDE WAS
201. Back to Black
I’M WANTING TO TURN IT OFF BUT MUST FINISH
202. He Went That Way
203. The Palace
204. Magpie
205. In a Violent Nature
206. Mother, Couch
207. Bleeding Love
208. 1992
209. The Crow
210. Memory
211. Miller’s Girl
212. Azrael
213. Monster Mash
WHAT IS THIS SHIT?
214. The Blue Rose
215. Cuckoo
216. Free LSD
217. Coup de Chance
218. The Code *
219. Time Cut
220. Close to You
221. Aggro Dr1ft
222. Unfrosted
223. Hellboy: The Crooked Man *
224. First Shift
YES YOU ARE AND CONGRATS YOU MADE THE WORST “FILM” OF THE YEAR
225. Am I Racist?
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