2024: My Year at the Movies
I saw 74 movies in the theater this year, most of them starting in March, and I’m hoping to up that number in 2025. Ranking them seems like an activity with diminishing returns, so I’ve grouped them into seven scientific-ish categories and organized them in alphabetical order. This was a great year for movies, and I was pleasantly surprised more often than not. There were some serious gaps in what I was able to make it to see, and I’m hoping that Oscar nominations bring some of 2024’s darlings back to the big screen (looking at you, Anora and Challengers).
Getting out into the theater to take these in, even when I was the only person in the auditorium, made me feel more connected to movies than I have in a long time, and it made the art form feel more special and relevant and important than they ever do on my TV at home. Anyway, here’s my year of movies. Feel free to come at me about any of it.
Surprisingly good and I hope you see them
Flow
Heretic
Housekeeping for Beginners
Monkey Man
Nosferatu
Poor Things
Queer
The Substance
Wicked
Wicked Little Letters
Safe bets for an enjoyable time at the movies
Alien
Civil War
Dune (1984)
Gladiator II
Inside Out: 2
Moana 2
The Mummy
Shaun of the Dead
Shrek 2
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
Better than they had any business being
Abigail
Arcadian
The First Omen
Hit Pig
Immaculate
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Good but not great
Argyle
Get Away
Meh
Despicable Me: 4
Kung-Fu Panda 4
Speak No Evil
Venom: The Last Dance
Should have been better than they were
Mufasa: The Lion King
Werewolves
So bad they made me angry
A Cat’s Life
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Lord Of The Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
There you go. I'm going to try and write something about all of these. We'll see how it goes. And I'll see you at the movies in 2025.
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