Top 10 of 2024

[Peng]

Nearly five months into the year, time for the annual checkpoint thread.

[Peng]

1. Challengers
2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
3. Dune: Part Two
4. Hundreds of Beavers
5. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
6. Evil Does Not Exist
7. Girls State
8. The Goldman Case
9. The Greatest Night in Pop
10. Midwives

[Idioteque Stalker]

1. Furiosa
2. Challengers
3. Hundreds of Beavers
4. Here
5. Dune 2

[Peng]

1. Challengers
2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
3. Dune: Part Two
4. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
5. Hundreds of Beavers
6. Problemista
7. Hit Man
8. Evil Does Not Exist
9. Girls State
10. Mars Express

[Idioteque Stalker]

1. Furiosa
2. The Taste of Things
3. Henry Sugar + 3
4. The Substance
5. Challengers
6. Hundreds of Beavers
7. Love Lies Bleeding
8. Here
9. Dune 2

[MadMan]

I have a top 5, I've only seen 12 from this year lol

1. Cuckoo
2. Monkey Man
3. Kneecap
4. Maxxxine
5. Alien: Romulus

Only Monkey Man isn't a theater viewing

[Peng]

1. Challengers
2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
3. Dune: Part Two
4. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
5. Hundreds of Beavers
6. The Substance
7. Rebel Ridge
8. The Beast
9. Problemista
10. Hit Man

[Peng]

1. Challengers
2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
3. Anora
4. Dune: Part Two
5. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
6. Chime
7. Hundreds of Beavers
8. The Substance
9. Rebel Ridge
10. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In

[baby doll]

Going by US release dates (https://letterboxd.com/alexfung/list/new-york-city-2024-commercial-releases/):
Anora (Sean Baker)
La Bete and Coma (Bertrand Bonello)
Between the Temples (Nathan Silver)
Close Your Eyes (Victor Erice)
Hit Man (Richard Linklater)
Kidnapped (Marco Bellocchio)
Music (Angela Schanelec)

[Peng]

Year-end snapshot Top 10, far from final:

1. Challengers
2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
3. Anora
4. Dune: Part Two
5. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
6. Chime
7. A Different Man
8. Hundreds of Beavers
9. The Substance
10. Rebel Ridge

[TGM]

My Top 5 Movies of 2024: https://cwiddop.blogspot.com/2024/12/my-top-5-movies-of-2024.html

and

My Top 10 Movies of the '20s so far: https://cwiddop.blogspot.com/2025/01/my-top-10-movies-of-20s-so-far.html

[Idioteque Stalker]

1. Anora
2. The People's Joker
3. The Taste of Things
4. Furiosa
5. Henry Sugar + 3
6. The Substance
7. Last Summer
8. Hundreds of Beavers
9. Conclave
10. Nosferatu

[MadMan]

1. Nosferatu (theater)
2. Cuckoo (theater)
3. Flow (theater)
4. Monkey Man (Peacock)
5. Kneecap (theater)
6. MaXXXine (theater)
7. A Real Pain (theater)
8. Heretic (theater)
9. Alien: Romulus (theater)
10. A Complete Unknown (theater)

Out of 20, but hey I'll catch up eventually. Peacock has The Wild Robot and Conclave, and I will see about The Brutalist, Sonic 3 and if I should grab beers and watch Wicked. Nah....

[Peng]

1. Challengers
2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
3. The Count of Monte Cristo
4. Anora
5. Dune: Part Two
6. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More
7. Chime
8. A Different Man
9. Flow
10. Close Your Eyes

[Ivan Drago]

https://615film.com/kevins-year-end-review-of-2024-in-film/

[MadMan]

https://615film.com/kevins-year-end-review-of-2024-in-film/

I've seen 4, I guess if I counted Hundreds of Beavers it would be in my list.

[MadMan]

1. Nosferatu (theater)
2. Hundreds of Beavers (Tubi, why not)
3. Cuckoo (theater)
4. The Wild Robot (Peacock)
5. Flow (theater)
6. Monkey Man (Peacock)
7. Dune Part 2 (Public Library)
8. Kneecap (theater)
9. MaXXXine (theater)
10. A Real Pain (theater)

Conclave was great, it doesn't make the list though, I haven't seen the BP winner lol, I'm kind moving on to 2025, will update if I see any others.

2024 https://boxd.it/vn0nA

[Peng]

"Finalized" list, to be edited later if a few pending blindspots can deliver into top 20.

1. Challengers (Luca Guadagnino)
2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (George Miller)
3. Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)
4. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre de La Patelliere & Matthieu Delaporte)
5. Anora (Sean Baker)
6. Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve)
7. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (Wes Anderson)
8. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (Johan Grimonprez)
9. Chime (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
10. A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg)

11. Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)
12. Flow (Gints Zilbalodis)
13. Close Your Eyes (Victor Erice)
14. No Other Land (Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, & Rachel Szor)
15. Hundreds of Beavers (Mike Cheslik)
16. The Substance (Coralie Fargeat)
17. Rebel Ridge (Jeremy Saulnier)
18. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang)
19. Black Box Diaries (Shiori Ito)
20. The Beast (Bertrand Bonello)

HM: Problemista (Julio Torres), All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia), Hit Man (Richard Linklater), Evil Does Not Exist (Ryūsuke Hamaguchi), ME (Don Hertzfeldt)

Pending: Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger, The Shadowless Tower

[MadMan]

My local library has Challengers and I think also Furiosa, so I may grab those at some point.