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. "Flow" (Gints Zilbalodis, Latvia)

5. "Babygirl" (Halina Reijn, USA)

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

7. "A Complete Unknown" (James Mangold, USA)

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

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

10. "Conclave" (Edward Berger, USA)

Other great films:

Ababouiné (Canada)

The Apprentice

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Better Man (UK)

Challengers

Civil War

Dahomey (Senegal)

Deadpool And Wolverine

A Different Man

Drive-Away Dolls

Eight Postcards From Utopia (Romania)

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Australia)

Joker: Folie à deux

Kalak (Denmark)

Nos belles-soeurs (Canada)

Nosferatu

Succubus (Russia)

Wallace And Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (UK)

Wicked

Top 3 Shorts:

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

2. "The Spider" (Andy Chen, USA)

3. "Closing Time" (Spencer Keller, USA)

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)

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)

Alien: Romulus

All We Imagine As Light (India)

Argylle

Dune: Part Two

Else (Belgium)

The Girl With The Needle (Denmark)

Gladiator II

Grand Tour (Portugal)

Una Historia de amor y guerra (Mexico)

Inside Out 2

Jour de chasse (Canada)

Maria

Moana 2

The Outrun (UK)

Queer

A Real Pain

Le Successeur (France)

Twisters

The Wild Robot

Weak TV shows:

Agatha All Along

Bridgerton: Season 3

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) *****

Sean Baker's greatest film to date, a tarantinesque mix of "Pretty Woman" and "After Hours", starring Mikey Madison in a fearless performance as a tough-as-nails hooker who sees her Cinderella dreams crashing and burning in the most unexpected ways.

Kinds Of Kindness (2024) *****

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

My Old Ass (2024) ****

A wonderful, magnificent film about love, but very different from a typical romantic comedy, although it is that too, but also so much more. A queer film about a young girl falling in love with a boy. A comedy about a 18-year old girl meeting an older version of herself at 39. A Canadian movie about a family that isn't fuck up at all, not even a little bit. A rare gem.

A Complete Unknown (2024) ****

Excellent biopic about a key period in Bob Dylan's career - 1961 to 1965. Great songs, great performances and a fabulous reconstruction of that era, when the American folk music would discover an electric guitar.

Flow (2024) ****

Fabulous animated feature from Latvia. It's the story of a cat whose life is upended by a massive flood, leading to an unexpected and touching alliance with a diverse group of animals: a capybara, a bird, a lemur, and a dog. Not unlike "Ponyo" (2009) and "Life Of Pi" (2012), but surprisingly different in a variety of ways.

Babygirl (2024) ****

Excellent erotic drama starring Nicole Kidman as a masochistic CEO who engages in an adulterous affair with a young intern.

The Seed Of The Sacred Fig (2024) ****

Set during the anti-hijab protests in Iran, it's a tense, surprising drama about an investigative judge who finds himself in a tug-of-war against his wife and two daughters. The film was secretly shot in Iran by dissident director Mohammad Rasoulof, who is now wanted by the police in his own country, where he has been sentenced to eight years in prison, flogging, a fine and the confiscation of property. However, he managed to escape from Iran to attend the Cannes Film Festival, where he received a Special Award for his film.

Emilia Perez (2024) ****

Surprising and amazing French film set in Mexico, with a story straight out of a Latin American telenovela, stunning musical numbers, a powerful political message and superlative acting performances from Karla Sofia Gascon, Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldana and Adriana Paz (who all won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival).

The Apprentice (2024) ***

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The Substance (2024) ***

Excellent body horror movie starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.