lets do some chatting and listing about the best films you saw in the last 12 months which were also released for the first time in UK cinemas in that timespan, if you catch my drift
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managed to sneak Marty Supreme in time to bump my list up to 40 for the year, which is about standard for me though a bit down on last year’s 47 high
feels like I missed out on quite a few arthouse/foreign language ones that I know people love. Either other life stuff was in the way or it was due to me really embracing going to cinema to see older classics instead this year
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- The Home
- Die My Love
- The Long Walk
- The Ballad of Wallis Island
- Nickel Boys
Worst 5
- Materialists
- Hard Truths
- Eddington
- The Black Phone 2
- War of the Worlds
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Good formatting
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I’ve got a fair few blank spots that I won’t get round to before the year is out so this is where I landed.
OBAA so far clear in top spot but this has been a good year! Eephus was my other 5 Star and 3-8 are fairly interchangeable tbh
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not your first formatting rodeo
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I got halfway through Eephus and fell asleep and haven’t gone back to it yet, sorry Y_D_F
was enjoying it a lot but in that annoying middle ground now where I dont want to rewatch half but also know just watching the second half won’t be any good either
Probably something like…
One Battle After Another
Weapons
Sorry, Baby
Pillion
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Sinners
Predator: Badlads
Train Dreams
It Was Just an Accident
The Brutalist
Yet to see Sentimental Value and Marty Supreme so might have a re-jig in a week or so.
Watched (and loved) The Order in early Jan but it was a 2024 release apparently, just about.
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There’s a decent case to be made for this being the most thematically resonant way to experience the picture
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You should repost this so it only actually has films on there
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Flow? You god damn monster!
Go with the Flow
Some further thoughts:
10 - Bugonia
A “return to form” for Lanthimos IMO. He’s in the mode I most like him here. Jesse Plemons is one of the very best we have and the ending of this is hilarious and devastating.
9 - Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
I watched this at the BFI IMAX the day after getting back from Bilbao to watch United lose the Europe League Final and had a LOT riding on it acting as a pick-me-up. Despite being messy as fuck and guilty of all the modern-blockbuster sins that the franchise has avoided to this point, the big action set-pieces moved me to tears because I am a big, soppy idiot.
8. Die My Love
Jennifer Lawrence is out of this fucking world good in this. An impressionistic descent into post-partum depression that absolutely does not work without a performance as incredible as this at the centre.
7. Friendship
There has been no better on-screen depiction of the struggle to make new friends as an adult man as when he takes his wife down the sewers on a date because of the absence of a fella to go down there with. Funniest shit in the world.
6. The Ballad of Wallis Island
So proud of Key and Basden and cannot wait for this to be the BBC Christmas evening film next year.
5. The Brutalist
Just an absolute sucker for any time an artist is just earnestly and unashamedly ambitious. I think there is something absolutely metatextually fascinating at the heart of this about how much it is striving to be a masterpiece but doesn’t quite get there.
4. Nickel Boys
Dropped a tiny bit in my estimation with a bit of distance from it as I don’t think the performances quite hold up to the artfulness of the composition and the visual conceit but I really loved this a lot. There’s a moment towards the end where the whole POV technique of the film acts as a plot reveal in and of itself and it is astonishing.
3. Weapons
Just an exhilaratingly fun time at the cinema really and we don’t get enough of those any more.
2. Eephus
Baseball is the best cinema sport full stop and I went into this thinking I was just getting a sports film. It is that but it is much more a really tender, beautiful portrait of friendship and wistfulness and how sometimes things end even when we don’t want them to but can’t acknowledge that we don’t want them to. Sincerely one of the most romantic films I’ve ever seen.
1. One Battle After Another
Have said enough about this already. Saw it three times, will see it many, many more over the course of the rest of my life. This was like making a new lifelong friend.
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Saw 68 films at the cinema this year!
Most of them were shit.
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boring
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Springsteen film was way better than it had any right to be.
Hot Milk was alright too