It is that time! 2025 is here (and has been for a minute lol) which means I can list and rank each film I saw that CAME OUT last year in 2024. Don’t be confused - I watched 150 movies last year, but I saw 24 films which were RELEASED last year, and that’s what we’re ranking here. A couple are behind the scenes documentaries or short films, which may not all be included - so if there are less than 24 here, that’s what’s missing. The Letterboxd link to this list is here: Letterboxd List Link

#1 - The Wild Robot (dir. Chris Sanders)

Score: 4.5/5

The people long for Eden and distrust the corporations. As it should be.

#2 - Dune: Part Two (dir. Denis Villeneuve)

Score: 4.5/5

Imagine the terrible feeling of getting in your car after the beach and you’re covered in sand, but forever. And with murder.

#3 - Longlegs (dir. Oz Perkins)

Score: 4/5

Creative, atmospheric horror? More please. Blumhouse can go dig its own grave, this is what the people need.

#4 - Oddity (dir. Damian Mc Carthy)

Score: 4/5

If there is anything I learned from this movie it’s that I should never trust a witch who gives me a big wooden doll.

#5 - Inside Out 2 (dir. Kelsey Mann)

Score: 4/5

This is a good sequel to a good movie! Still wish Pixar would stick to mostly originals and less sequels but this was great. Also some of these are only kind of emotions.

#6 - Nosferatu (dir. Robert Eggers)

Score: 4/5

Don’t have smex with vampires.

#7 - A Quiet Place: Day One (dir. Michael Sarnoski)

Score: 3.5/5

This was solid but also entirely unnecessary. Like my poos.

#8 - Smile 2 (dir. Parker Finn)

Score: 3.5/5

What if we remade Smile but with every single character being horrible and unlikeable?

#9 - Alien: Romulus (dir. Fede Álvarez)

Score: 3.5/5

Just phallic enough.

#10 - Wicked (dir. Jon M. Chu)

Score: 3.5/5

How did they film green lady in a green room with no real sets

#11 - Speak No Evil (dir. James Watkins)

Score: 3/5

They did a good job crafting the least likable, most limp-wristed “man” ever put on the screen. And I know dozens of dudes exactly like this. Also, “James McAvoy screaming” is becoming its own genre.

#12 - Monkey Man (dir. Dev Patel)
Score: 3/5

Not enough monkey. Also India sucks.

#13 - We Live in Time (dir. John Crowley)
Score: 3/5

Very annoying because this easily could have been a 4.5 star movie, but then they had to keep adding perversions and subversions as they went. “Sure, let’s make this less wholesome and give her a perverted sexuality for no reason, let’s demean the institution of marriage, let’s demean childbearing, let’s let feminism poison a story that could have been so much sweeter.”

If you want to feel this emotion and scratch this itch in an infinitely more powerful and better way, just go watch About Time.

Garfield and Pugh are both incredible though, and technically everything is pretty spot on.

#14 - Civil War (dir. Alex Garland)

Score: 2.5/5

A movie with nothing to say where almost nothing happens. The photography stuff was cool though.

#15 - Kraven the Hunter (dir. J.C. Chandor)

Score: 2/5

I thought this was about the cereal

#16 - Trap (dir. M. Night Shyamalan)

Score: 2/5

Classic late-stage Shyamalan. High concept, idiotic execution. I don’t think bro writes second drafts anymore. He just rolls with whatever first comes to mind to race toward his “chilling realization” moment. I love you, M. Do better.

#17 - Carry-On (dir. Jaume Collet-Serra)

Score: 2/5

Imagine if we have a killer concept and then basically make a Hallmark movie

#18 - The Six Triple Eight (dir. Tyler Perry)

Score: 1.5/5

Madea goes to the European front

#19 - Don’t Move (dir. Brian Netto, Adam Schindler)

Score: 1.5/5

I moved.

#20 - The Watchers (dir. Ishana Night Shyamalan)

Score: 1/5

The true Watchers were the friends we made along the way. AKA the other people in the theater also throwing up from how bad this was

#21 - The Substance (dir. Coralie Fargeat)

Score: 1/5

The critique is a good one and extremely obvious and on the nose, but this movie is literally the very thing it’s critiquing. This much gratuitous nudity defeats your own point my dude. You can’t have it both ways. But you’re French, so what do you expect?

My stars are meaningless because I can’t rate this movie. I love when things are bold enough to get weird but I also have a large captaincy for hatred. I will never forget watching this.

Also can’t help but feel this movie falls into the Venn diagram of “made to seem smart to stupid people.”

Alright guys, that’ll do it. I appreciate you reading. If you disagree with something, leave a comment and I’ll judge you.

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