December 12, 2024

Top 10 Films of 2024

1. "Anora" (Sean Baker, USA)

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

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

4. "The Brutalist" (Brady Corbet, A24)

5. "Flow" (Gints Zilbalodis, Latvia)

6. "My Old Ass" (Megan Park, Canada)

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

8. "Conclave" (Edward Berger, Focus)

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

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


Other great films:

Ababouiné (Canada)
L'Amour ouf (France)
Borgo (France)
Dahomey (Senegal)
Porcelain War (Ukraine)
Rabia (France)
Vermiglio (Italy)
Wicked


Top 10 Guilty Pleasures of 2024:

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

2. "Babygirl" (Halina Reijn, A24)

3. "Lee" (Ellen Kuras, USA)

4. "Nosferatu" (Robert Eggers, Focus)

5. "A Different Man" (Aaron Schimberg, A24)

6. "Eight Postcards From Utopia" (Radu Jude, Christian Ferencz-Flatz, Romania)

7. "Drive-Away Dolls" (Ethan Coen, Focus)

8. "Birth" (Bree Mills, USA)

9. "Swimming Home" (Justin Anderson, UK)

10. "Succubus" (Serik Beyseu, Russia)


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:


Top 3 Music Videos:

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

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

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


Other great music videos:


Top Commercial:

"Bleu de Chanel" (Martin Scorsese, Chanel)


Other great commercials:

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TV Top 10:

1. "Sugar" (Fernando Meirelles, Apple)

2. "Landman: Season 1" (Taylor Sheridan, Paramount)

3. "Shogun" (FX)

4. "Rivals" (Disney, UK)

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



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

9. "Fallout" (Amazon)

10. "Disclaimer" (Alfonso Cuaron, Apple)


Other great TV shows:

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)

Top VR film:



Other great VR films:


Top Stand-Up Comedy Show:

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


Other great stand-up comedy shows:

Weak films of 2024:

1995 (Canada)
La Bête (France)
Else (Belgium)
En fanfare (France)
Grand Tour (Portugal)
No Other Land (Palestine)
Le Successeur (France)
Sugarcane (Canada)
Vingt Dieux (France)

Weak shorts:


Weak TV shows:


Weak cartoons:

Beautiful Men (Belgium)

December 10, 2024

Top 3 Musicals of 2024

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

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

3. "Wicked" (Jon M. Chu, Universal)

November 11, 2024

Anora (2024) *****

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Kinds Of Kindness (2024) *****


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

October 10, 2024

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.