As we continue to live through never-ending unprecedented times, 2024 felt like the most tumultuous, emotionally-wrenching year to date. When the news seems to be nothing but living nightmares, just living a life and trying to be somewhat hopeful about the future becomes a more trying task. But what about the movies?! Film is both our escape from the world and our ever-dependable window into better understanding it. But when real life seems so overwhelmingly bleak, then what’s the point? This year’s piece is my attempt to work through the extremely heightened emotions of the year and how we can best come out the other end of 2024 and beyond, through the prism of 240 of the fine films that graced our screens and TVs in the past year.

Music featured:
Kris Bowers - Bedtime Story
LCD Soundsystem - New York I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down
Oshins - What a World We Live In
The Unlikely Candidates - High Low
Bleachers - I Wanna Get Better

Films featured:
Night Swim
Self Reliance
He Went That Way
Mean Girls
The Beekeeper
The Book of Clarence
Lift
Role Play
I.S.S.
Which Brings Me to You
Miller’s Girl
The Underdoggs
Sometimes I Think About Dying
American Star
Argylle
Orion and the Dark
Suncoast
Scrambled
The Tiger’s Apprentice
Lisa Frankenstein
Lola
Marmalade
Bob Marley: One Love
Madame Web
Players
This is Me… Now: A Love Story
Land of Bad
Bleeding Love
Drive-Away Dolls
Parallel
Red Right Hand
Dune: Part Two
Spaceman
Problemista
Ricky Stanicky
Kung Fu Panda 4
Damsel
Imaginary
Love Lies Bleeding
Cabrini
Accidental Texan
Little Wing
The American Society of Magical Negroes
Arthur the King
One Life
Snack Shack
Road House
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Shirley
Immaculate
Late Night with the Devil
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Asphalt City
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
The Listener
Musica
Monkey Man
The First Omen
The Greatest Hits
Parachute
Housekeeping for Beginners
Wicked Little Letters
Civil War
Arcadian
The Long Game
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
Sasquatch Sunset
Sting
Abigail
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Affairs
Stress Positions
We Grown Now
Challengers
Boy Kills World
Humane
Hundreds of Beavers
Unsung Hero
The Fall Guy
Tarot
The Idea of You
I Saw the TV Glow
Turtles All the Way Down
Unfrosted
Wildcat
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
The Last Stop in Yuma County
Poolman
Back to Black
IF
The Strangers: Chapter 1
Babes
Thelma the Unicorn
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
The Garfield Movie
Atlas
Hit Man
In a Violent Nature
Ezra
Summer Camp
Young Woman and the Sea
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
The Watchers
Inside Out 2
Ultraman: Rising
The Bikeriders
The Exorcism
Kinds of Kindness
Thelma
A Quiet Place: Day One
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
Daddio
Despicable Me 4
MaXXXine
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
Kalki 2898 AD
Kill
Mother, Couch
Fly Me to the Moon
Longlegs
Sing Sing
Touch
Dandelion
My Spy: The Eternal City
Twisters
National Anthem
Oddity
Widow Clicquot
Deadpool & Wolverine
The Fabulous Four
Didi
Trap
Kneecap
The Instigators
Rob Peace
Borderlands
It Ends With Us
Cuckoo
Jackpot!
Alien: Romulus
Skincare
My Penguin Friend
Blink Twice
The Crow
The Killer
The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat
Greedy People
Strange Darling
AfrAId
Reagan
Slingshot
1992
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
His Three Daughters
The Front Room
Rebel Ridge
The Thicket
Speak No Evil
The Killer’s Game
My Old Ass
The 4:30 Movie
Transformers One
Never Let Go
A Different Man
The Substance
Omni Loop
Apartment 7A
The Wild Robot
Megalopolis
Devara Part 1
Rez Ball
Azrael
Hold Your Breath
House of Spoils
Joker: Folie à Deux
White Bird
It’s What’s Inside
Saturday Night
Piece by Piece
We Live in Time
Killer Heat
The Apprentice
Brothers
The Critic
Terrifier 3
Smile 2
Anora
Goodrich
Woman of the Hour
Venom: The Last Dance
Canary Black
Conclave
Your Monster
Don’t Move
Memoir of a Snail
Here
Blitz
Juror No. 2
A Real Pain
The Gutter
Absolution
Hitpig!
Heretic
The Piano Lesson
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Elevation
Emilia Perez
Red One
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
Gladiator II
Wicked
Spellbound
Armor
Moana 2
Maria
Queer
Dear Santa
Sweethearts
September 5
Get Away
Nightbitch
Y2K
The Six Triple Eight
The Order
Werewolves
Kraven the Hunter
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Carry-On
Nickel Boys
The End
The Last Showgirl
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Mufasa: The Lion King
Babygirl
The Brutalist
Homestead
The Room Next Door
Nosferatu
Better Man
A Complete Unknown
The Fire Inside

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