2024 Movie Roundup Jamboree Extravaganza

This is going to be A Post With a Lot Of Links to Old Posts.

I saw a lot of movies in 2024: 182, If my count is right. Most of them for the first time. Most of them at a movie theater. Thanks, AMC & Alamo movie passes. I liked most of them. Counting repeat views, and pre-show videos, that’s about a solid month looking at movie stuff.

98 of them are eligible for the 2025 Academy Awards. The rest were released too early to be considered, even thought some of my favorites (like Perfect Days, Hundreds of Beavers, and La Chimera) were not available for mere mortals until 2024. The oldest film I saw was Suspense from 1913 – it was great.

I wrote little snap reviews for all of them right after I watched them. My feelings for some of them have changed with time. They’ll probably change again.

Would you like some lists?

Movies I Liked A Whole Lot that are Also Allowed to Win an Oscar in 2025

My favorites of my favorites are in bold.

Some of these didn’t get much of a release, but they’re worth finding.

• Anora
• The Apprentice
• The Beekeeper
• The Brutalist
• Challengers
• DEVO
• Didi
• Dune Part 2
• Evil Does Not Exist
• The Fall Guy
• Flow
• Furiosa
• Good One
• Ghostlight
• Hit Man (apparently I forgot to write about this one)
• I Saw The TV Glow
• I’m “George Lucas” : A Conor Ratliff Story
• Janet Planet
• Kneecap
• Los Frikis
• Love Lies Bleeding
• My Old Ass
• National Anthem
• Nickel Boys
• Nosferatu
• The People’s Joker
• A Real Pain
• Rumours
• Sing Sing
• Snack Shack
• The Substance
• Thelma
• Tuesday
• The Wild Robot
• Will & Harper
• The World According to Allee Willis

Movies I didn’t really care for, but at least they were trying something different

• Here
• Joker: Folie à Deux
• Kinds of Kindness
• Longlegs
• Megalopolis

…and, since I know people will ask:

The Worst New Movies I Saw This Year

• Arthur The King
• Borderlands
• Cabrini
• Treasure
• The Watchers

…and a special shout out to Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One, Two, and Three for turning a celebrated classic comic book maxi-series into six hours of lifeless mush.

Movies I Should Have Seen Decades Ago

• The Apartment (1960)
• Bringing Up Baby (1938)
• The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)
• Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
• Sidewalk Stories (1989)
• Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
• Streetwise (1984)
• Suspense. (1913)
• Swing Girls (2004)
• Tampopo (1985)
• The Warriors (1979)

HEY LOOK PICTURES!

I made graphics for every movie I saw in 2024, plus a few other things. They’re all in this google drive folder. Wheeee!