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.

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.

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.

The Brutalist (2024) ****

A very strange film that can be interpreted in a variety of ways.

Universal Language (2024) ****

A brilliant satiric film set in Winnipeg. It pays homage to the Iranian cinema while commenting on the linguistic tensions in Canada from an entirely different perspective.

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.

September 5 (2024) ***

Tense and exciting drama about the television coverage of the hostage drama during the Munich Olympics in 1972.

Hit Man (2024) ***

The second act is weak, but the rest of the film is quite fascinating. It's based on a true story, except for the ending.

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.