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Well, here we are. 2024 is a couple of days behind us now, and with the 94 new releases I saw this year at the time of publishing, they ranged from future classics to piles of crap to hidden gems, and everything in between. I can’t talk about every single movie I saw, and since this post isn’t ranked, you can follow this link to my Letterboxd list to see how all of these movies stack up. First, some honorable mentions… Honorable Mentions : The Bikeriders [dir. Jeff Nichols] Conclave [dir. Edward Berger] Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga [dir. George Miller] Longlegs [dir. Osgood Perkins] The Peasants [dir. Hugh & DK Welchman] The People’s Joker [dir. Vera Drew] Rebel Ridge [dir. Jeremy Saulnier] Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band [dir. Thom Zimny] Road House [dir. Doug Liman] Terrifier 3 [dir. Damien Leone] The 20 Best Movies of 2024 (in alphabetical order) AGGRO DR1FT [dir. Harmony Korine] This is probably the most singular theatrical experience I’ve had this ...

Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu & Jamie Lee Curtis in Borderlands We have to get the worst out of the way to get to the good stuff, so let’s just cut to the chase. 2024 was a fascinating year for movies, maybe I’d call it good? However, the bad movies from this year are so bad that it could just cancel the “okay” movies out. Hell, even some of the more iconic bad movies from this year like Madame Web just aren't in my bottom 10 of the year because there somehow happened to be movies that I thought were worse. I haven’t seen every movie this year, so this is just my list, not the objective overall list. However, I am including only honorable mention, or a dishonorable mention, on this list because it absolutely would’ve made this list, but I have a good reason why it’s not there. Dishonorable Mention : Megalopolis [dir. Francis Ford Coppola]. I thought that this was just absolutely excruciating to watch in a theater, but the only reason why it i...