2024 Films (Alphabetically)

RELEASED OR SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE

• Alien: Romulus (Fede Álvarez, UK/US) Cláudio's Capsule
• Anora (Sean Baker, US) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review
• Argylle (Matthew Vaugh, UK) Abe's Review

• Babygirl (Halina Reijn, Netherlands/US) Elisa's Review, Cláudio Capsule
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Tim Burton, US) Elisa's Review
• The Bikeriders (Jeff Nichols, US) Chris's Review
• Bird (Andrea Arnold, UK) Elisa's Review
• The Brutalist (Brady Corbet, US/UK/Hungary) Elisa's Review, Cláudio Capsule

• Challengers (Luca Guadagnino) Cláudio's Review
• Close Your Eyes (Victor Erice, Spain) Cláudio's Review
• Conclave (Edward Berger, UK/US) Matt's Review
• Cuckoo (Tilman Singer, Germany/US) Elisa's Review

• Daaaaaalí (Quentin Dupiex, France) Cláudio's Review
• Dahomey (Mati Diop, Senegal OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review
• A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg, US) Elisa's Review 
• Dune Part Two (Denis Villenuve, US/Canada) Cláudio's Review

• Emilia Perez (Jacques Audiard, France) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review 
• Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Japan) Ben's Review, Nick's Review, Abe's Review (2023)

• The Fall Guy (David Leich, US) Chris's Review
• Fancy Dance (Erica Tremblay, US) Cláudio's Review
• The Fire Inside (Rachel Morrison, US) Eurocheese's Review 
• The First Omen (Arksaha Stevenson) Cláudio's Capsule
• Flow (Gints Zilbalodis, Latvia OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review

• Girl with the Needle (Magnus Van Horn, Denmark OSCAR SUBMISSION) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review 

• Hard Truths (Mike Leigh, UK) Eurocheese's Review, Cláudio's Review

• I'm Still Here (Walter Salles, Brazil OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review 
• In A Violent Nature (Chris Nash) Cláudio's Capsule
• I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoerunbrun) Cláudio's Review
• It's What's Inside (Greg Jardin, US) Abe's Review

• Joker Folie A Deux (Todd Philips, US) Cláudio's Review

• Karaoke (Moshe Rosenthal, Israel) Abe's Review (2022)

• Last Summer (Catherine Breillat, France) Cláudio's Review 
• Longlegs (Osgood Perkins) Cláudio's Capsule
• Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass, US) Elisa's Review

• Maria (Pablo Larrain, Chile/Germany/Italy) Elisa's Review
• Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, US) Elisa's Review
• Monkey Man (Dev Patel, US/India) Cláudio's Review

• Nowhere Special (Uberto Pasolini, UK/Italy) Cláudio's Review

• Oddity (Damian McCarthy) Cláudio's Capsule
• Oh Canada (Paul Schrader, US/Israel) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review
• On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni) Cláudio's Review

• The People's Joker (Vera Drew, US) Nick's Review
• Power (Yance Ford, US) Abe's Review

• Queer (Luca Guadagnino, US/Italy) Elisa's Review, Cláudio Capsule 
• A Quiet Place: Day One (Michael Sarnoski, US) Cláudio's Capsule

• The Room Next Door (Pedro Almodóvar, Spain) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review
• Rumours (Guy Maddin, Canada/US) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review 

• Sasquash Sunset (Nathan and David Zellner, US) Elisa's Review
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof, Germany OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review
• Small Things Like These (Tim Mielant, Ireland) Elisa's Review
• Stress Positions (Theda Hammel, US) Abe's Review 
• The Substance (Coralie Fargeat) Cláudio's Review

• Trap (M Night Shyamalan, US) Cláudio's Review

• Vermiglio (Maura Delpero, Italy OSCAR SUBMISSION) Elisa's Interview, Cláudio's Review 

• Wild Robot (Chris Sanders, US) Cláudio's Review

• Youth (Hard Times) (Wang Bing, France/Netherlands/Luxembourg) Cláudio's Review
• Youth (Homecoming) (Wang Bing, France/Netherlands/Luxembourg) Cláudio's Review

AWAITING DISTRIBUTION

• 7 Keys (Joy Wilkinson, UK) Abe's Review
• Addition (Marcelle Lunam, Australia) Abe's Review
• Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra) Cláudio's Review
• All the Long Nights (Shô Miyake, Japan) Elisa's Review
• All We Imagine as Light (Paual Kapadia, France/India) Cláudio's Review
• Another End (Piero Messina, Italy/France/UK) Elisa's Review
• April (Dea Kulumbegashvili, Georgia) Cláudio's Review
• Audrey (Natalie Bailey, Australia) Abe's Review
• The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (Madeline Hunt-Ehrlich) Cláudio's Review
• Beacon (Roxy Shih) Abe's Review
• Beloved Tropic (Ana Endara Mislov) Cláudio's Capsule
• Bliss (Shemi Zarhin, Israel) Abe's Review
• bluish (Milena Czernovsky & Lilith Kraxner) Nick's Review
• Boong (Lakshmipriya Devi, India) Cláudio's Capsule
• Carnival is Over (Fernando Coimbra) Cláudio's Review
• Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review
• Christmas Eve at Miller's Point (Tyler Taormina) Elisa's Review
• Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review
• La Cocina (Alonso Ruizpalacious) Elisa's Review, Abe's Review
• Collective Monologue (Jessica Sarah Rinland) Cláudio's Review
• The Courageous (Jasmin Gordon) Cláudio's Capsule
• The Damned (Roberto Minervini) Elisa's Review
• Darkest Miriam (Naomi Jaye) Abe's Review
• Desert Road (Shannon Triplett) Abe's Review
• Don't Let Go to the Dogs Tonight (Embeth Davidtz, South Africa) Abe's Review
• L'Empire (Bruno Dumont, France) Elisa's Review
• The Exiles (Belén Funes) Cláudio's Capsule
• Family Therapy (Sonja Prosenc, Slovenia OSCAR SUBMISSION) Abe's Review
• Fire of Wind (Marta Mateus, Portugal) Cláudio's Review
• The French Italian (Rachel Wolther) Abe's Review
• The Freshly Cut Grass (Celina Murga) Abe's Review
• From Ground Zero (various, Palestine OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review
• From Hilde With Love (Andreas Dresen) Elisa's Review
• Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes, Portugal OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review 
• Gülizar (Belkis Bayrak, Turkey/Kosovo) Cláudio's Capsule
• Happy Holidays (Scandar Copti, Palestine / Israel/ Germany) Abe's Review
• Harvest (Athina Rachel Tsangari, Greece) Cláudio's Review
• Horizonte (César Augusto Acevedo) Cláudio's Review
• Hunting Daze (Annick Blanc) Abe's Review
• Ka Whawhai Tonu - Struggle Without End (Michael Johathan, New Zealand) Abe's Review
• Kill the Jockey (Luis Ortega, Argentina OSCAR SUBMISSION), Abe's Review, Cláudio Capsule
• The Knife (Nnamdi Asomugha, US) Abe's Review
• Lázaro at Night (Nicolás Pereda) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review
• The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos (The Agbajowo Collective) Cláudio's Review
• Liminov: The Ballad (Kirill Serebrennikov) Elisa's Review
• Malta (Natalia Santa) Abe's Review
• McVeigh (Mike Ott, US) Abe's Review
• A Mistake (Christine Jeffs) Abe's Review
• Mistress Dispeller (Elizabeth Lo) Cláudio's Review
• The Mountain (Rachel House, New Zealand) Abe's Review
• My Favourite Cake (Behtash Saneeha & Maryam Moghadda, Iran) Elisa's Review
• No Other Land (various, Palestine) Cláudio's Review
• Nonostante (Feeling Better) (Valerio Mastandrea, Italy) Elisa's Review
• On Falling (Laura Carreira) Cláudio's Review
• One to One: John & Yoko (Kevin Macdonald & Sam Rice-Edwards) Elisa's Review
• The  Party's Over (Elena Manrique, Spain) Cláudio's Capsule
• Pepe (Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias, Dominican Republic) Elisa's Review, Cláudio's Review
• Perfumed with Mint (Muhammad Hamdy) Cláudio's Review
• Plastic People (Ben Addelman & Ziya Tong) Abe's Review
• Pooja Sir (Deepak Rauniyar, India) Elisa's Review
• Queen of My Dreams (Fawzia Mirza, Pakistan/Canada) Abe's Review
• Quisling - The Final Days (Erik Poppe, Norway) Abe's Review
• Restless (Jed Hart) Abe's Review
• Roleplay (Kate Lyn Matthew) Abe's Review
• The Second Act (Quentin Dupieux, France) Elisa's Review
• Shepherds (Sophie Deraspe, Canada/France) Cláudio's Capsule
• The Shrouds (David Croneberg, Canada) Cláudio's Review
• Suburban Fury (Robinson Devor, US) Cláudio's Review
• Suspended Time (Olivier Assayas, France) Elisa's Capsule
• Three Kilometres to The End of the World (Emanuel Pârvu, Romania OSCAR SUBMISSION) Elisa's Review
• Triumph (Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov, Bulgaria OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review
• Union (Brett Story & Stephen Maing) Nick's Review
• Viêt and Nam (Truong Minh Qúy, Vietnam) Cláudio's Review
• The Village Next to Paradise (Mo Harawe) Cláudio's Capsule 
• We Strangers (Anu Valia, US) Abe's Review
• We Were Dangerous (Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu, New Zealand) Abe's Review
• Wild Diamond (Agathe Riedinger, France) Elisa's Review
• William Tell (Nick Hamm, UK/Switzerland) Abe's Review
• Wolves Always Comes At Night (Gabrielle Brady, Mongolia/Australia) Cláudio's Review 

NATHANIEL'S 2024 RANKING, GENERALIZED
(alphabetized by categories)

 

Loved. Think of Them Often
Anora, The Brutalist, Challengers, The Fall Guy, Housekeeping for Beginners, Problemista, Saturday Night, and Vermiglio

Good Stuff. See Them!
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Blitz, Brats, Didi, Dune Part Two, Femme, Fly Me To the Moon, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, Merchant Ivory, Outstanding A Comedy Revolution, Sebastian, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Sing Sing, The Substance, and Thelma

Recommended albeit with Major or Minor Quibbles:
Alien Romulus, The Bikeriders, The Critic, Damsel, Fancy Dance, Hit Man, The Idea of You, Inside Out 2, Late Night with the Devil, Love Lies Bleeding, Orion and the Dark, Road House, Santosh, and Wicked Little Letters.

Whatever Their Qualities I Was Never Fully On Board
The Beast Within, Code 8 Part II, Deadpool & Wolverine, Furiosa, Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Mean Girls, Monkey Man, and A Quiet Place: Day One

Make It Stop!
Atlas, A Family Affair, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, IF, and Madame Web