Coralie Fargeat’s incredible The Substance is the ultimate squelchy film of 2024. This film is at first Kubrickian, then heavily Cronenberg-esque, but ultimately the unhinged and deliciously demented singular flavor of Fargeat’s brand of in-your-face feminist filmmaking. This is a brilliantly gross commentary on show business, on beauty standards, on toxic self-image, on the disgusting divide between the spotlight and those shining it, and all executed with a vigor and rage evocative of a fight against societal inequalities. This shit fucking rules. Sounds, visuals, and effects come together in one of the most fun films I’ve watched in a long, long time.
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Nosferatu 2024
This is simply one of the best looking and most engaging films of the year. Robert Eggers uses a wealth of costumes, sets, and Jarin Blaschke’s immaculate cinematography to pull us into 1830s Germany with the skill of an absolute master. The vivid period dialogue and committed performances of the cast add to the element of strange reality imbued into every frame of this incredible monster fucker film. Nosferatu is an absolute delight.
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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 2024
Ok but I haven’t laughed this much during a movie in a very long time and idk what that says about me
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Rebel Ridge 2024
Jeremy Saulnier still got the juice. Aaron Pierre’s lead performance carries this thing and some GOOD supporting work from Annasophia Robb and Don Johnson elevate this thriller even more. One of the most entertaining movies I’ve seen all year
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 2023
James Mangold gray and tan visual slop mid-fest
The rise of Skywalker equivalent of Henry Jones III
The good: Harrison ford, the music, Mads mikkelsen and Thomas Kretschmann who dies WAY too fucking early. Picturing this movie with him and not Boyd Holbrook who is wasted in a role that does nothing (a la last crusade, where you have the main villain and a secondary nazi captain who gets bested in fisticuffs)
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Interstellar 2014
IMAX
10 year anniversary rerelease
There are few films as moving as Interstellar, Chris Nolan’s space odyssey that traverses galaxies but somehow still focuses on what makes us human. A film relentlessly determined to put the audience with the characters on this journey to other worlds, Nolan truly takes us along on a ride in a way that is quintessential to his skills as a storyteller. Forces of nature define this film - the raging dust storms, the waves that…