Movies I've seen from 2024

9/10: It's a well made movie with great performances, sets, story, characters, etc. The only problem with it is that it's a thriller/horror movie, but it only nails the thriller and not the horror.

8/10: It's strong on a technical level, and it's stuffed with great performances. Its main downside is not having a character to focus on.

8/10: It's fantastic on a technical and acting level, and it feels very slice of life, like this is how things would operate in an actual civil war in the modern-day US. The characters are well written and acted, and while more could be done on their angle, they work extremely well.

8/10: It has a fresh take on the apocalypse genre (focusing on character more than survival), and utilizes the premise for creative purposes much better than the first two films. The acting is strong, the production design is great, and the location is perfect.

8/10: It's a genuinely creepy horror film akin to Silence of the Lambs, with fantastic acting, editing, and directing. The problems fall into place with the story, which is a bit too predictable.

8/10: It's a well-acted, slice of life, character drama that sometimes feels like a more believable plot line from a Dan Brown thriller. It does suffer from some occasional lackluster shots that aren't up to par with the rest of the aesthetics and some slowness in the pacing.

8/10: It's well edited and shot, and Naomi Scott is incredible in the main role. It has a strong atmosphere to it and there are a number of well-choreographed scares throughout. There's also a number of interesting ideas in the film, such as the lead being stocked by an otherwise unseeable force is a spotlight celebrity with a checkered past. That being said, that's also the biggest problem with the film: the main character never really transcends above that checkered-pasted celebrity character into a fully fleshed out person.

8/10: Granted, it's nothing unexpected to people who've been paying attention from at least yesterday, but it's a very sincere and well-done attempt at a facts-as-they-are biopic about a current and controversial figure. Sebastian Stan does a good job of portraying Trump without it becoming comical or satirist, and Jeremy Strong and Maria Bakalova are great in their roles. The pacing is off, but the writing, especially when it comes to characters, is well done.

8/10: It's a well-written and acted satire with some hilarious and deep moments. The characters are interesting, the story is engaging, and there's a strong theme of identity throughout.

8/10: Despite some issues with the characters and the generic nature of the story, the acting, music, cinematography, and editing (especially during the match scenes) is top notch and generates suspense and interest despite a lacking of personal connection to the drama.

7/10- It falls into convenience factors from time to time, and the Beanie Feldstein character, while well acted and written, has an underdeveloped role in the movie, the writing, acting, and characters are all great, and it has a strong sense of dark humor that's well executed.

7/10: It's a fairly typical sports-drama film, which is well-performed, has simplistic but well-written characters, and knows how to utilize its score and cinematography.

7/10: Explainable, but highly illogical, issues plague this film, and it also feels like a try-hard version of 12 Angry Men. The acting, editing, and directing is well done, but the writing is try-hard and simplistic.

6/10: While the narrative and character development are all rushed, thus giving it a forced and manipulative feeling that a lot of animated films have, the way its handled feels more earned. The animation is unique and beautiful, the characters and gags are fun, the music and sound design are wonderful, and despite the rushed handling, things feel very organic.

6/10: It definitely feels like a Tim Burton movie, but in the sense that someone really wanted to mimic said feeling or knew it was the best way to do it, and did it well. The premise, writing, and characters are all fun, and the production design is enjoyable. At the end of the day, it's just a pretty typical movie that you know the story of from the trailer.

6/10: While it has the George Miller flair from Fury Road, it doesn't succeed as successfully. Because of its prequel status, what will and won't happen is known, robbing certain scenes of their weight, and the characters aren't that interesting either. It's simultaneously engaging, yet boring.

6/10: It's a pretty typical documentary that is emotionally poignant with some personal stories and less-known information to add to the story about Reeve that most people already know.

6/10: It's a fun action/disaster movie that delivers exactly what it promises, and is a good followup to the first film.

6/10: It's an incredibly amusing movie that feels slice-of-life like for a sasquatch family, though it's repetitive to the point where the same jokes and story beats keep happening.

6/10: It's a one-note, but creative, premise, with over-explanatory dialogue, that's filled with strong peroformances that help to elevate it.

6/10: It has a fantastic first two-thirds with great writing, acting, and character building, but falls apart in the last third as everything is over-explained and the entire movie gets boringly rehashed.

6/10: It's elevated by its technical aspects and the acting, but the characters and the story feel underdeveloped and rushed despite the nearly three hour runtime.

It's a pretty cliche-written and typical biopic with some great acting from Winslet, and good character and acting moments.

6/10: It's great visually and on a technical level, marked by decent performances and a lot of exciting action sequences. There is a lot of repetition between this film's plot and the first one's, and the characters are not as fleshed out as they should be, and a lot of the character elements of the movie feel weightless.

6/10: It chronicles a period of time in Bob Dylan's life, which is interesting and has a lot of great character stuff with the secondary cast, but not much from Dylan's character. The audience gets to know his music, but not him as a person. Timothee Chalamet, and also the rest of the cast, gives a great performance, but Dylan is written as kind of a blank slate. At the end of the day, it feels more like a movie that wanted to be more of a Best of Bob Dylan album than a biopic.