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Saturday
Oct262024

2024 Films (Alphabetically)

RELEASED OR SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE

 

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

Babygirl (Halina Reijn, Netherlands/US) Elisa's ReviewCláudio Capsule , Gotham Nominations
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 ReviewCláudio Capsule

 

Challengers (Luca Guadagnino) Cláudio's Review , Gotham Nominations
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 , EFA Nomination
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 ReviewCláudio's Review , EFA Nomination
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 , EFA Nomination

The Girl with the Needle (Magnus Van Horn, Denmark OSCAR SUBMISSION) Elisa's ReviewCláudio's Review , EFA Nomination

Hard Truths (Mike Leigh, UK) Eurocheese's ReviewCláudio'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, Gotham Nominations
• 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) 
Kneecap (, Ireland OSCAR SUBMISSION) BIFA Nominations

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

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

Nickel Boys (Ramell Ross, US) , Gotham Nominations
• No Other Land (various, Palestine) Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination
Nowhere Special (Uberto Pasolini, UK/Italy) Cláudio's Review

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 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 , BIFA Nominations
• The Outrun (), BIFA Nominations

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

• >Queer (Luca Guadagnino, US/Italy) Elisa's ReviewCláudio 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 , EFA Nomination
Rumours (Guy Maddin, Canada/US) Elisa's ReviewCláudio's Review 

 

Santosh (, UK) , BIFA Nominations
Sasquash Sunset (Nathan and David Zellner, US) Elisa's Review
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof, Germany OSCAR SUBMISSION) Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination
Small Things Like These (Tim Mielant, Ireland) Elisa's Review
Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat (Johan Grimonprez) Cláudio's Review, EFA Nomination
•  Stress Positions (Theda Hammel, US) Abe's Review 
The Substance (Coralie Fargeat) Cláudio's Review , EFA Nomination

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

• Vermiglio (Maura Delpero, Italy OSCAR SUBMISSION) Elisa's InterviewCláudio's Review , EFA Nomination

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

 

 

CLOUD

 

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 ReviewAbe'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 ReviewCláudio Capsule
The Knife (Nnamdi Asomugha, US) Abe's Review
Lázaro at Night (Nicolás Pereda) Elisa's ReviewCláudio'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
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 ReviewCláudio'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, Unstoppable, 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 

 

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