January 1, 2025

Hedda (2025) *

A disappointing adaptation of a play by Henrik Ibsen. Its potential has been totally wasted on modernizing it.

Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning (2025) *

Hopelessly boring action flick starring Tom Cruise.

Zootopia 2 (2025) *

A very disappointing sequel to the 2016 Disney hit.

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.

If I Had Legs I'D Kick You (2025) *

Rose Byrne plays a mother way beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown who faces one calamity after another in this nerve-wrecking drama that offers nothing but frustration to its viewers.

Eddington (2025) *

How do you make a movie like "Eddington"? You think of a movie like "One Battle After Another" and you take away reason and accountability...

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (2025) *

Tedious biopic about Bruce Springsteen's early years.

Elio (2025) *

A routine science-fiction adventure film with very familiar plot twists and boring characters.

28 Years Later (2025) *

A totally unremarkable zombie pic. Far less compelling than the weakest episodes of "The Walking Dead".

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)
Come Closer (Israel)
Dahomey (Senegal)
Paying For It (Canada)
Porcelain War (Ukraine)
Rabia (France)
Seven Veils (Canada)
Vermiglio (Italy)
Young Werther (Canada)


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)
Papillon (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)
Bergers (Canada)
La Bête (France)
Diamant brut (France)
Else (Belgium)
En fanfare (France)
Grand Tour (Portugal)
Humane (Canada)
No Other Land (Palestine)
Le Successeur (France)
Sugarcane (Canada)
Vingt Dieux (France)

Weak shorts:


Weak TV shows:


Weak cartoons:

Beautiful Men (Belgium)