Deux femmes en or (2025) ***

Excellent Canadian film about two attractive housewives and their raging libidos. A clever and unapologetic look at female sexuality.

The Studio (2025) ***

A hilarious Apple series about a Hollywood studio. The best Tinseltown satire since "The Player" (1992).

The White Lotus: Season 3 (2025) ***

Season 3 of Mike White's excellent series for HBO, this time set in Thailand.

Adolescence (2025) ***

Brilliantly directed British TV series about a strange murder.

Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years (2025) ***

Bill Burr offers hilarious, outrageous, brutal and unexpected takes on everything from Gaza to Ku Klux Klan to Black Lives Matter.

Hacks: Season 4 (2025) ***

The Last Of Us: Season 2 (2025) ***

The dynamic of the series shifts dramatically with the arrival of Abby (Kaitlyn Dever) who literally eliminates the competition in one of the most shocking twists ever.

Asura (2025) **

Japanese Netflix series directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda ("Shoplifters", "Monster"). It's a story of four sisters who discover that their father has an affair with a younger woman.

Heart Eyes (2025) **

Very effective slasher pic with convincing performances, clever touches of humour and plenty of thrills and suspense. But it's also quite predictable.

Mickey 17 (2025) *

Atrocious science-fiction flick set in a human colony on a distant planet. It's hard to believe that Ho Bong-Joon, who made such a great masterpiece as "Parasite" (2019), could stumble so badly with his very next project.

Top 10 Films of 2024

1. "Anora" (Sean Baker, USA)

2. "Kind Of Kindness" (Yorgos Lanthimos, USA)

3. "The Seed Of The Sacred Fig" (Mohammad Rasoulof, Iran)

4. "The Brutalist" (Brady Corbet, USA)

5. "Flow" (Gints Zilbalodis, Latvia)

6. "Universal Language" (Matthew Rankin, Canada)

7. "Babygirl" (Halina Reijn, USA)

8. "My Old Ass" (Megan Park, Canada)

9. "The Substance" (Coralie Fargeat, USA)

10. "Lee" (Ellen Kuras, USA)

Other great films:

Ababouiné (Canada)

L'Amour ouf (France)

The Apprentice

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Better Man (UK)

Birth

Borgo (France)

Challengers

Civil War

A Complete Unknown

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (France)

Conclave

Dahomey (Senegal)

Deadpool And Wolverine

A Different Man

Dis-moi pourquoi ces choses sont si belles (Canada)

Drive-Away Dolls

Eight Postcards From Utopia (Romania)

Elton John: Never Too Late

Emilia Perez (France)

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Australia)

Heretic

Hit Man

Joker: Folie à deux

Kalak (Denmark)

The Last Showgirl

Memoir Of A Snail (Australia)

Misericorde (France)

Monsieur Aznavour (France)

Nightbitch

Nos belles-soeurs (Canada)

Nosferatu

La Plus precieuse des marchandises (France)

Porcelain War (Ukraine)

Rabia (France)

The Room Next Door (Spain)

Saturday Night

September 5

Succubus (Russia)

Swimming Home (UK)

Vermiglio (Italy)

Wallace And Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (UK)

We Live In Time (UK)

Wicked

Top 3 Shorts:

1. "Incident" (Bill Morrison, USA)

2. "The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent" (Nebojsa Slijepcevic, Croatia)

3. "A Lien" (David and Sam Cutler-Kreutz, USA)

Other great shorts:

Instruments Of A Beating Heart (Japan)

The Only Girl In The Orchestra

Top 3 Music Videos:

1. "Espresso" (Dave Meyers, Sabrina Carpenter)

2. "Taste" (Dave Meyers, Sabrina Carpenter)

3. "Please Please Please" (Bardia Zeinali, Sabrina Carpenter)

Top Commercial:

"Bleu de Chanel" (Martin Scorsese, Chanel)

Other great commercials:

Like A Good Neighbaaa

TV Top 10:

1. "Sugar" (Fernando Meirelles, Apple)

2. "Landman" (Taylor Sheridan, Paramount)

3. "Shogun" (FX)

4. "Rivals" (Disney, UK)

5. "The Perfect Couple" (Susanne Bier, Netflix)

6. "Hacks: Season 3" (HBO)

7. "My Brilliant Friend: Season 4" (RAI, Italy)

8. "Cien años de soledad" (Netflix, Colombia)

9. "Fallout" (Amazon)

10. "Disclaimer" (Alfonso Cuaron, Apple)

Other great TV shows:

Ancient Apocalypse: The Americas

Baby Reindeer (UK)

Dating Naked UK (UK)

Evil: Season 4

Niepewnosc (Poland)

Squid Game: Season 2 (South Korea)

Top 3 Cartoons:

1. "Sing: Thriller" (Garth Jennings, Netflix)

2. "The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year" (David Silverman, Disney)

3. "An Almost Christmas Story" (David Lowery, Disney)

Other great cartoons:

Beurk (France)

Wander To Wonder (UK)

Top 3 VR films:

1. "Somewhere Unknown In Indochina" (Asio Liu, Feng Ting Tsou, Taiwan)

2. "Oneiro" (Milos Tasic Grof, Croatia)

3. "The Quest: Everest" (Alex Harz)

Top Stand-Up Comedy Show:

"Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer" (Jimmy Carr, Brian Klein, Netflix)

Other great stand-up comedy shows:

Ellen DeGeneres: For Your Approval

Weak films of 2024:

1995 (Canada)

Adam change lentement (Canada)

Alien: Romulus

All We Imagine As Light (India)

Argylle

La Bête (France)

Black Box Diaries (Japan)

Dune: Part Two

Else (Belgium)

En fanfare (France)

The Girl With The Needle (Denmark)

Gladiator II

Grand Tour (Portugal)

Una Historia de amor y guerra (Mexico)

I'M Still Here (Brazil)

Inside Out 2

Jour de chasse (Canada)

Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes

Maria

Moana 2

Nickel Boys

No Other Land (Palestine)

The Outrun (UK)

Un P'tit truc en plus (France)

Queer

A Real Pain

Sing Sing

The Six Triple Eight

Le Successeur (France)

Sugarcane (Canada)

Twisters

Vingt Dieux (France)

The Wild Robot

Weak shorts:

Anuja

Closing Time

I Am Ready Warden

I’M Not A Robot (Belgium)

The Spider

Weak TV shows:

Agatha All Along

Bridgerton: Season 3

Weak cartoons:

Beautiful Men (Belgium)

In The Shadow Of The Cypress (Iran)

Top 3 Musicals of 2024

1. "A Complete Unknown" (James Mangold, Searchlight)

2. "Emilia Perez" (Jacques Audiard, France)

3. "Wicked" (Jon M. Chu, Universal)

Anora (2024) *****

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Kinds Of Kindness (2024) *****

Another masterpiece from Yorgos Lanthimos, a constantly surprising cinematic puzzle of the highest order.