For even more great cinema, check out my biggest project of this year: the 50 most life-changing movies ever made ruclips.net/video/ZYp7EmEgxg0/видео.html Thanks again to everyone for your continued support! What were your favorite movies of 2024? And what movies are you most looking forward to next year?
Thank you so much for sharing your passion and insights! I hope you are able to enjoy the holidays and may you experience lots of love, connection and gratitude. Edit: Even though your content is utterly enthralling, I'm having a hard time not getting relaxed and almost falling asleep, due to your voice. I meant this as a compliment.
I am so thankful to you for your willingness to so ardently share your passion. Your videos have helped me through some of the hardest moments in my life, by helping me to remember that the world is so much bigger than just myself. Well done.
My Top 2024: 1 - Joker: Folie a Deux (Max) 2 - Inside Out 2 (Disney+) 3 - The Fall Guy (Prime Video) 4 - Challengers (Prime Video) 5 - Kingdom of The Planet of The Apes (Disney+) 6 - Blitz (Apple Tv+) 7 - The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (Netflix) 8 - Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (Max) 9 - Juror #2 (Max) 10 - Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Max)
Guys, if you can, please consider watching the brazilian movie "I am Still Here". Is a powerful depiction about the brazilian dictatorship we faced on the 70's. It also tells a completely true story. It's already a strong candidate for the best international Oscar. Often, latin american movies don't get the attention they deserve. Imdb Rating 8,9.
@@alextilley8323 Not really! The director is Walter Salles, which also directed the aclaimed brazillian movie Central Station. Fun fact: Fernanda Montenegro, who was nominated for best actress in 2002 is the mother of Fernanda Torres, the main actress in I am Still Here.
Nice list. Here’s mine: 1. Dune: Part Two 2. Dune: Part Two 3. Dune: Part Two 4. Dune: Part Two 5. Dune: Part Two 6. Dune: Part Two 7. Dune: Part Two 8. Dune: Part Two 9. Dune: Part Two 10. Dune: Part Two
Omg, this is the first time seeing your face and so thought you were way older! You have such a soothing wise tone. It’s very nice to listen to while taking in what your saying
We have some overlap, although The Zone of Interest is firmly a 2023 movie. Here's my list for fun: 1. Didi 2. Dune: Part Two 3. I Used to Be Funny 4. I Saw the TV Glow 5. It's What's Inside 6. Hit Man 7. Boy Kills World 8. How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies 9. Here (hot take!) 10. Sometimes I Think About Dying
Decent list, definitely disagree with number 9. Saw Here as a sneak preview in the cinema, so a complete surprise for me. You often can see people leaving right at the beginning or middle of the film at a sneak preview when they decide it no longer holds their interest. I sat this movie out till the end and I've never experienced the constant drain of audience members during a film quite like that. By the end the once full cinema ended up with only me and 3 others. Talking with them as we left we all agreed we just kinda sat this one out having nothing else planned.
Yeah, Zone of Interest is 100% a 2023 movie, even if I personally didn’t get to see it until 2024. It won two Oscars (International Feature and Sound, both very well-deserved) for the year 2023. Some like La Chimera and Hit Man, the latter of which I actually do consider to be 2024, can be debated with release dates, but Zone of Interest is a 2023 film. Otherwise, solid list. Both you and Tom.
Nice list! And yeah, I was on the fence about including Zone of Interest as a 2024 movie, but it didn't release here until February (went to see it with my wife on Valentine's Day, not my best decision lol), so it was firmly a 2024 movie for me
Dune part 2 made me feel things I had not felt since seeing LOTR when I was 11 years old all those years back with my father, I honestly think it may be the best sci-fi/fantasy book to film adaptation since LOTR after watching Dune (both parts) 11 times. The utter feeling of not being a mere spectator but being dragged into that world for 3 hours and fully immersed from the first minute is mind blowing, Dune Part 2 probably has one of the best opening scenes I have seen in a very long time as well.
Thank you for this! Completely agree with I Saw the TV Glow in particularly. It resonated so much, and couldnt agree more with the Lynch reference. It reminds me a lot of Blue Velvet, one of my fav films ever. Its funny how perfectly u summed up how i saw that movie too: Melancholy, Nostalgia. Love from The Netherlands!
Wow, I subscribed to your channel due to your analysis of the latest Marvel flaws. They were very accurate critiques. I actually prefer these vid where you talk about what you like; and find myself making notes into a long script of my own. Keep it coming.
Great list as always. I would add 'On Becoming a Guinea Fowl', 'The Teacher's Lounge', 'Cadejo Blanco', 'Hoard', 'Green Border', 'Silver Haze, and 'Girls will be Girls''. Well worth watching if you haven't already.
Nice video! Cool 2024 recap. There are a few movies from your list that I haven't watched yet, but I'm definitely watching them before this year ends. And I'll have to check your other vids too because I just discovered your channel!
Every time you make a video I feel like I get to take notes. Thanks again for exposing me to some films I never heard of! Now to go watch that top 50 video I somehow missed...
This might seem snarky or sarcastic, but I promise it's genuine, one of the things I love about movies is the true range in opinions. Hearing the aimless, poorly executed disaster (in my opinion) that Trap was described as a "Hitchcokian thriller" was a delightful experience of initial shock, recalibration, and ultimately curiosity to see what you liked about it.
Yes, a great year for film. Many blessings to you, your wife and loved ones for the holiday season. Thank you for your incredible content. Anxious to see your plans unfold in the coming year.
The Substance was such an incredible experience that it reminded me why I even care about movies as much as I do. I’m no cinephile, I’m more gamer than anything, but games always told the most interesting and unique stories since I was behind the wheel steering the plot forward with my actions. I’ve always had an affinity with game stories as a frontier for stories told in a way never seen before but The Substance reminded me that there are some stories that can just only work as a movie. Its presentation, editing, music, visuals and casting, everything about this movie screamed focus and intent. It was a movie that really gave me the space to look inward at my own insecurities that I hide from the world to protect my feelings and avoid being hurt, avoid being alone. It’s a movie that served as a springboard to directly challenge and confront these often confusing and uncomfortable feelings about beauty, self worth, love and value. The Substance is a movie that feels…personal? Like I’m reading the directors diary or something. A reflection of someone who feels just like me sometimes. The Substance is my movie of the year, one of the best movies I ever saw. It’s so punk rock.
Its my favourite movie about substances and how are substance literally takes over your body to the point of not recognising yourself. I dont know why people think it's about womanhood though xD but hey I like different perspectives
Really enjoyed the list and analysis - always a great channel! One very minor thing you might be interested in, "small things like these" isn't a working class family. Ireland was so dirt broke until the 1990s that he is middle class by standards of the time - own company, big house in the town, enough food. It's part of why the church could have such control over Ireland for so long.
What a great list! Though I disagree with several honorable mentions that I felt were significantly worse than some other films that were released this year (Trap and Megalopolis come to mind - I didn't care for either of them, though there are some good performances in both).
I’m curious if you’ve read Small Things Like These. It’s incredibly dense for how brief it is and I was already looking forward to seeing the adaptation, but now much more so because “immaculate sense of mood and atmosphere” and “quiet, bleak, beauty” all perfectly describe the tone of Keegan’s deceptively small novel. Definitely worth the hour or two it takes to get through it.
Thank you for all of your recommendations and commentary on cinema, it's really helped me to appreciate the depth of films and increase my enjoyment. 🙂
I’m so suprised when you mention turkish director “about dry grasses” It can be little hard to understand cos of culturel situations. But It has basic human emotions and thougts. I’m so glad to add to list
Love seeing about dry grasses and the beast on here, 2 movies that were slow but had me invested every second of their runtimes and fascinated me so much.
Would love to see a Nuri Bilge Ceylan deep dive. Also check out Insise the yellow cocoon shell, a Vietnamese epic of Tarkovskian and Weerasethakulian magnitude!
Many good suggestions! I didn't like Challengers as much as others I guess, however, The Promised Land and Dune Part 2 are probably my favorite films of 2024, with an honorable mention to Furiosa.
I couldn't help but watch the purple Christmas tree decoration in the background. To me it didn't look like a ball but an inter-dimensional hole that at any time could suck up reality through a death spiral. Maybe it's just me 😄
"The Beast" sounds like a combination of "Eternal Sunshine.." and "The Fountain." "Zone of Interest" is the only movie I have seen so far and it hasn't let go of me. Most of us will never live next door to Hell, but it's still there. I have a lot of catching up to do.
I'm getting tired of the in-sell boogieman. Only one guy did something years ago -- he labels himself an in-sell and it has spawned more absurd boogiemen in movies than all the "incidents" we know of ten times over. It's a fiction that doesn't represent reality -- and it's a handy skapegoat to kick... the "loser" men of society who have been rejected their entire lives. BTW, 30% of men could be classed as this in present year. Demonizing 30% of men as dangerous to mi'ladies is absurd. There would be 24/7 "incidents" covered on every news channel -- yet they can only name one guy who merely said he identified as one. Thankfully, he didn't identify as a ham sandwich or there would be an endless pipe of melodramas demonizing a tasty lunch treat. Making Not-Sees the bad guys -- yet again -- is so tiresome. If you want to mine a fresh monstrosity, we have one happening as I write this. Funny enough, they were the ostensible "victims above reproach" of that period in history. Odd how they do what they accuse the Germans of doing but nobody makes movies about those guys. Almost makes you think the narratives they teach in school might not be the whole truth. It's a good thing the good guys always win the important wars. These top-card villains are pedestrian Hollywood -- without imagination or invention. How much longer will we replay the narratives invented to villain-wash dead men who are no longer alive to explain their side of the story... and the Soviets concocted most of it. Nobody portrays what the Soviets did -- which beggars what the Not-sees did in numbers and horrors. Why does the Soviet flag not draw as much Hollywood attention as the "crooked cross"? This is a question that answer itself with a little digging. No less than Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Gulag Archipeligo) spoke about it -- but the West isn't ready for that discussion. If you want to actually delve into the dark soul of humanity, we have documented and confessed war crimes by the men who committed them in WWII for the West. Gen. Curtis LeMay -- who said himself that if the Allies had lost the war, he'd have been brought up on crimes against humanity. He was also involved in the JFK cover-up, BTW. I'm only interested in movies that have the ring of truth -- to wit: there are no good guys in global war. None. When you start looking into things, you learn that your side (the good guys) terminated as many or more than the supposed bad guys. There are plenty of accounts of what the Soviets did to Germany right after the war -- it was a horror. They sent hundreds of thousands of German POWs to die in Russia -- our Dwight D. Eisenhower had assured those men the would be returned home. They were soldiers in war -- POWs. We sent them to their premeditated executions. Post war. That's a crime. One need look no further than the Mideast today. We see our government funding our "arch enemies" to assist the regime change demanded by the usual suspects. I'm just done with the charichature bad guys and the same narratives over and over again. When you look into those narratives, most of them don't stand up to scrutiny. Most were written by the Soviets -- and we know they staged a camp after the fact because they had no cameras when they liberated the camp. That would make a fascinating movie of moral ambiguity. That's something for exploration. What do we get with the eternal bad guys? Just some writer and director doing an expensive virtue signal by trodding ground so thoroughly they've paved a superhighway on it for ease of travel. I want my movies to punch up, not down to non-existent enemies who disappeared in the past (the Not-sees) or non-materialized threats in the present (the in-sells). Anyone who buys it is a gullible NPC who gets their news from the propaganda pipe we call the "legacy media". This is what we call a "normie take" in the more informed circles... the ones that use facts, reason, and evidence -- not bald assertions out of context delivered by presstitutes who pretend they don't understanding English. There's no virtue in boldly fighting imaginary monsters. We have a word for those who do so: coward.
12:37 gotta pause it here since it's on my list and I'm happy to see that you enjoyed it! Btw totally agree about Furiosa! I really thought it was fun and a worthy sequel, although it ran a little long and I think needed some editing cuts.
Great list, man. I really appreciate how much thought and effort you put in. Thanks for the recs! (also, Dune pt2 is prob every ones #1, lets be honest lol)
Ordering from high energy to low energy instead of "the best" is so smart! This is the only channel about movies I watch; I'm usually on the book side of things. I hope that more people (my fellow commenters here in particular) come to view film top 10 lists like book top 10 lists: a selection from what that person personally watched/read throughout the hear according to their own personal taste, not a claim to having seen every film released in a year and dunking on all the films not presented.
Very nice list, added some of those films to my personal to watch list. But I am a little sad that not a single animated movie was featured in it, despite 2024 being a great year for animation ( thinking of Flow, LookBack , or La Plus précieuse des Marchandises as a top 3)
Juror #2 is so bad that I feel like I'm in some sort of Asch conformity experiment when I see the positive reviews for it. All of the supporting characters are unidimensional tropes (and poorly acted at that), the twist/premise is simple-minded, and the legal ramifications of multiple events are so laughably problematic that it makes Law & Order SVU look like an accurate documentary series by comparison. If you've ever watched 12 Angry Men and thought Lifetime should make a new version of it, this movie is for you.
Here’s my personal list of my favorite movies of 2024: - The Wild Robot - Dune: Part Two - Anora - Challengers - The Substance - Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga - Queer (which I just watched last night!) - Civil War - I Saw the TV Glow - Heretic - A Different Man - Wicked - Hit Man - Inside Out 2 - Love Lies Bleeding Still need to see The Brutalist, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, A Real Pain, and a few others. I was rather disappointed in a handful of movies, including and especially Longlegs, Immaculate, Gladiator II, We Live in Time, and Trap, even if I didn’t hate them. Lotta garbage too. What an odd year.
@@no_mnom I don’t know, man, I personally loved it. Also I should state that this list is in extremely lose order. I like the films in the top half more than the second half but the specific placements are interchangeable.
You have an incredibly profound way of reviewing films. Prolific as well as precise. Reminds me of the great Film Critics that have left us,( Kael, Maslin, Agee, and Ebert to name a few) as have those periodicals that have left us too and become beholden to their main shareholders, and ads, and away from the core truth, honest reviews, with the reviewer putting themselves on the front-line and all the the inspiration that comes from bottomline truth telling. Your use of language and the impressions of quality film, expertly, even though sometimes out of reach, you never stop giving us an experience that is open and specific at the same time. Cheers to your Passion and Point of View, much appreciated. Mike
Hello Mr. van der Linden, I wanted to thank you for introducing me to Tarkovsky's movies. Just finished watching 'The Stalker' and it was thought provoking to say the least. I wanted to share a not very well known movie that you might enjoy. It is 'Bridge of Spies', a Spielberg movie from 2015. Thank You
Although not in the same caliber of films as your 2024 lists, I recommend watching "My Old Ass." It's a heartfelt, coming-of-age story with an endearing message and playful humor.
La Chimera is a masterpiece and so far is the best film of the year for me. Unless I count The Taste of Things (which I consider the best film of 2023), which is probably my favorite film of the decade thus far.
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Thanks again to everyone for your continued support! What were your favorite movies of 2024? And what movies are you most looking forward to next year?
Hey, what is your Twitter account?
Thank you so much for sharing your passion and insights! I hope you are able to enjoy the holidays and may you experience lots of love, connection and gratitude.
Edit: Even though your content is utterly enthralling, I'm having a hard time not getting relaxed and almost falling asleep, due to your voice. I meant this as a compliment.
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I am so thankful to you for your willingness to so ardently share your passion. Your videos have helped me through some of the hardest moments in my life, by helping me to remember that the world is so much bigger than just myself. Well done.
That is so beautiful my sister I hope you're doing better
My Top 2024:
1 - Joker: Folie a Deux (Max)
2 - Inside Out 2 (Disney+)
3 - The Fall Guy (Prime Video)
4 - Challengers (Prime Video)
5 - Kingdom of The Planet of The Apes (Disney+)
6 - Blitz (Apple Tv+)
7 - The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (Netflix)
8 - Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (Max)
9 - Juror #2 (Max)
10 - Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Max)
Guys, if you can, please consider watching the brazilian movie "I am Still Here". Is a powerful depiction about the brazilian dictatorship we faced on the 70's. It also tells a completely true story. It's already a strong candidate for the best international Oscar. Often, latin american movies don't get the attention they deserve. Imdb Rating 8,9.
Same director as City of God, right?
@@alextilley8323 Not really! The director is Walter Salles, which also directed the aclaimed brazillian movie Central Station. Fun fact: Fernanda Montenegro, who was nominated for best actress in 2002 is the mother of Fernanda Torres, the main actress in I am Still Here.
@@Jeguinho_Rural ah right, thanks - yes I remember a Central Station, good film
It's been on my watchlist! Will release here in March 2025 :)
Seeing Rebel Ridge here makes me really happy. Also 2024 was such an interesting year for movies.
Nice list. Here’s mine:
1. Dune: Part Two
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Dune: Part Two
4. Dune: Part Two
5. Dune: Part Two
6. Dune: Part Two
7. Dune: Part Two
8. Dune: Part Two
9. Dune: Part Two
10. Dune: Part Two
Oh, you forgot one...
Dune Part Two.
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Omg, this is the first time seeing your face and so thought you were way older! You have such a soothing wise tone. It’s very nice to listen to while taking in what your saying
We have some overlap, although The Zone of Interest is firmly a 2023 movie.
Here's my list for fun:
1. Didi
2. Dune: Part Two
3. I Used to Be Funny
4. I Saw the TV Glow
5. It's What's Inside
6. Hit Man
7. Boy Kills World
8. How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
9. Here (hot take!)
10. Sometimes I Think About Dying
It released in 2024 in the UK and Poland.
Decent list, definitely disagree with number 9. Saw Here as a sneak preview in the cinema, so a complete surprise for me.
You often can see people leaving right at the beginning or middle of the film at a sneak preview when they decide it no longer holds their interest. I sat this movie out till the end and I've never experienced the constant drain of audience members during a film quite like that.
By the end the once full cinema ended up with only me and 3 others. Talking with them as we left we all agreed we just kinda sat this one out having nothing else planned.
Yeah, Zone of Interest is 100% a 2023 movie, even if I personally didn’t get to see it until 2024. It won two Oscars (International Feature and Sound, both very well-deserved) for the year 2023. Some like La Chimera and Hit Man, the latter of which I actually do consider to be 2024, can be debated with release dates, but Zone of Interest is a 2023 film.
Otherwise, solid list. Both you and Tom.
Nice list! And yeah, I was on the fence about including Zone of Interest as a 2024 movie, but it didn't release here until February (went to see it with my wife on Valentine's Day, not my best decision lol), so it was firmly a 2024 movie for me
Boy Kills World is a new instant classic the likes of The Raid. Very entertaining!
glad to see The Beast included. easily one of the best films of this decade so far.
Agreed! My favorite foreign film of the year.
It was quite good, and I never want to see it again lol
I gave it half an hour and I just found it so…
…talky?
It was all going past me, really.
Does it change course a bit?
Dune part 2 made me feel things I had not felt since seeing LOTR when I was 11 years old all those years back with my father, I honestly think it may be the best sci-fi/fantasy book to film adaptation since LOTR after watching Dune (both parts) 11 times. The utter feeling of not being a mere spectator but being dragged into that world for 3 hours and fully immersed from the first minute is mind blowing, Dune Part 2 probably has one of the best opening scenes I have seen in a very long time as well.
Thank you for this! Completely agree with I Saw the TV Glow in particularly. It resonated so much, and couldnt agree more with the Lynch reference. It reminds me a lot of Blue Velvet, one of my fav films ever. Its funny how perfectly u summed up how i saw that movie too: Melancholy, Nostalgia. Love from The Netherlands!
Wow, I subscribed to your channel due to your analysis of the latest Marvel flaws. They were very accurate critiques.
I actually prefer these vid where you talk about what you like; and find myself making notes into a long script of my own.
Keep it coming.
This was really excellent. Thank you
Great list! Always looking forward to your videos 🙏🏼
As soon as you recommend any film I haven't seen, it goes high on my must-see list.
adored About Dry Grasses & glad you enjoyed it too
Thanks from Australia for your work, always keen to watch your releases. Hope you have a relaxing break.
you and your channel make these sorrow world a little bit a beter place to be...thankyou.
Another Christmas gift! You are too kind sir! ❤
Great list as always. I would add 'On Becoming a Guinea Fowl', 'The Teacher's Lounge', 'Cadejo Blanco', 'Hoard', 'Green Border', 'Silver Haze, and 'Girls will be Girls''. Well worth watching if you haven't already.
Lovely list. I'm impressed by the pacing in this video. Very well made.
Nice ranking.
Nice video! Cool 2024 recap. There are a few movies from your list that I haven't watched yet, but I'm definitely watching them before this year ends. And I'll have to check your other vids too because I just discovered your channel!
Every time you make a video I feel like I get to take notes. Thanks again for exposing me to some films I never heard of! Now to go watch that top 50 video I somehow missed...
I do take notes :D I love this guy's insights
This might seem snarky or sarcastic, but I promise it's genuine, one of the things I love about movies is the true range in opinions. Hearing the aimless, poorly executed disaster (in my opinion) that Trap was described as a "Hitchcokian thriller" was a delightful experience of initial shock, recalibration, and ultimately curiosity to see what you liked about it.
Very good list, thanks!
Good video, interesting choices BUT personally, I prefer your honorable mentions to your main picks.
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Yes, a great year for film. Many blessings to you, your wife and loved ones for the holiday season. Thank you for your incredible content. Anxious to see your plans unfold in the coming year.
How exciting!!! Make a story of your own. Can't wait!
Love your channel man! Keep it up!
It's great to see About Dry Grasses here. If you haven't seen, you should consider watching Nuri Bilge's other stuff too.
The Substance was such an incredible experience that it reminded me why I even care about movies as much as I do. I’m no cinephile, I’m more gamer than anything, but games always told the most interesting and unique stories since I was behind the wheel steering the plot forward with my actions. I’ve always had an affinity with game stories as a frontier for stories told in a way never seen before but The Substance reminded me that there are some stories that can just only work as a movie. Its presentation, editing, music, visuals and casting, everything about this movie screamed focus and intent. It was a movie that really gave me the space to look inward at my own insecurities that I hide from the world to protect my feelings and avoid being hurt, avoid being alone. It’s a movie that served as a springboard to directly challenge and confront these often confusing and uncomfortable feelings about beauty, self worth, love and value. The Substance is a movie that feels…personal? Like I’m reading the directors diary or something. A reflection of someone who feels just like me sometimes. The Substance is my movie of the year, one of the best movies I ever saw. It’s so punk rock.
Its my favourite movie about substances and how are substance literally takes over your body to the point of not recognising yourself.
I dont know why people think it's about womanhood though xD but hey I like different perspectives
*how a substance takes over the body
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Consider that the Substance starts with a woman being fired for being too old to be replaced by a younger version.
The substance was terrible. Its a blatant rip off of Starry Eyes. Please watch Starry Eyes
@@PauLtus_B consider that it's called THE SUBSTANCE.
Thank you for yet another fantastic and very thoughtful video.
What great recommendations!
Really enjoyed the list and analysis - always a great channel! One very minor thing you might be interested in, "small things like these" isn't a working class family. Ireland was so dirt broke until the 1990s that he is middle class by standards of the time - own company, big house in the town, enough food. It's part of why the church could have such control over Ireland for so long.
Great list and breakdowns, between this and your top 50 video, my Letterbox watchlist is loaded for the holidays
What a great list! Though I disagree with several honorable mentions that I felt were significantly worse than some other films that were released this year (Trap and Megalopolis come to mind - I didn't care for either of them, though there are some good performances in both).
Merry Christmas to you bro
Thank you always for your commentary and sharing your passions with us. Happy Holidays and heres to another great year of Cinema.
I have a few more to check out now. Thanks for the recommendations!
Zone of interest threw me off because it was in the Oscars so I thought it was a 2023 film which I guess it technically was.
I’m curious if you’ve read Small Things Like These. It’s incredibly dense for how brief it is and I was already looking forward to seeing the adaptation, but now much more so because “immaculate sense of mood and atmosphere” and “quiet, bleak, beauty” all perfectly describe the tone of Keegan’s deceptively small novel. Definitely worth the hour or two it takes to get through it.
I have not, but after seeing the movie I'm very curious to check it out!
Thank you for all of your recommendations and commentary on cinema, it's really helped me to appreciate the depth of films and increase my enjoyment. 🙂
A jolly good list. I missed a few of these and am always interested in LSOO takes. Maybe it’s time for MUBI. Merry Christmas 🎄
I’m so suprised when you mention turkish director “about dry grasses”
It can be little hard to understand cos of culturel situations. But It has basic human emotions and thougts.
I’m so glad to add to list
Always look forward to your recommendations. With so much media out there, these are always helpful.
I love the nuanced approach of about dry glasses
I look forward to these at the end of a short yet long year. ❤
Have good holidays, my best to you and thank you for all the work and insight trough film. Love your videos.
You're welcome friend. Thank you for your insights and very tasteful recommendations.
Merry christmas 😊
I really agree with what you said about I Saw The TV Glow. I gotta sit down and watch it again
RED ROOMS, hell yeah.
What a wonderful list of films and accompanying commentary. I look forward to exploring some of your highlights. Thank you for sharing. All the best.
Jeremy Saulnier is a very solid director❤
Great list!!! Thanx!!!
I forgot I haven't finished your other video!
Perfect Days and Flow are my favorite two of the year. So wise and impactful in the quietest but strongest of ways.
Amazing list, many of these went into the queue.
Love seeing about dry grasses and the beast on here, 2 movies that were slow but had me invested every second of their runtimes and fascinated me so much.
Would love to see a Nuri Bilge Ceylan deep dive. Also check out Insise the yellow cocoon shell, a Vietnamese epic of Tarkovskian and Weerasethakulian magnitude!
LOVED this! Heartfelt good vibes and best wishes on your film debut! the treatment factory loves you.
Many good suggestions! I didn't like Challengers as much as others I guess, however, The Promised Land and Dune Part 2 are probably my favorite films of 2024, with an honorable mention to Furiosa.
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I couldn't help but watch the purple Christmas tree decoration in the background. To me it didn't look like a ball but an inter-dimensional hole that at any time could suck up reality through a death spiral. Maybe it's just me 😄
"The Beast" sounds like a combination of "Eternal Sunshine.." and "The Fountain." "Zone of Interest" is the only movie I have seen so far and it hasn't let go of me. Most of us will never live next door to Hell, but it's still there. I have a lot of catching up to do.
I'm getting tired of the in-sell boogieman. Only one guy did something years ago -- he labels himself an in-sell and it has spawned more absurd boogiemen in movies than all the "incidents" we know of ten times over. It's a fiction that doesn't represent reality -- and it's a handy skapegoat to kick... the "loser" men of society who have been rejected their entire lives.
BTW, 30% of men could be classed as this in present year. Demonizing 30% of men as dangerous to mi'ladies is absurd. There would be 24/7 "incidents" covered on every news channel -- yet they can only name one guy who merely said he identified as one. Thankfully, he didn't identify as a ham sandwich or there would be an endless pipe of melodramas demonizing a tasty lunch treat.
Making Not-Sees the bad guys -- yet again -- is so tiresome. If you want to mine a fresh monstrosity, we have one happening as I write this. Funny enough, they were the ostensible "victims above reproach" of that period in history. Odd how they do what they accuse the Germans of doing but nobody makes movies about those guys. Almost makes you think the narratives they teach in school might not be the whole truth. It's a good thing the good guys always win the important wars.
These top-card villains are pedestrian Hollywood -- without imagination or invention. How much longer will we replay the narratives invented to villain-wash dead men who are no longer alive to explain their side of the story... and the Soviets concocted most of it.
Nobody portrays what the Soviets did -- which beggars what the Not-sees did in numbers and horrors. Why does the Soviet flag not draw as much Hollywood attention as the "crooked cross"? This is a question that answer itself with a little digging. No less than Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Gulag Archipeligo) spoke about it -- but the West isn't ready for that discussion.
If you want to actually delve into the dark soul of humanity, we have documented and confessed war crimes by the men who committed them in WWII for the West. Gen. Curtis LeMay -- who said himself that if the Allies had lost the war, he'd have been brought up on crimes against humanity. He was also involved in the JFK cover-up, BTW.
I'm only interested in movies that have the ring of truth -- to wit: there are no good guys in global war. None. When you start looking into things, you learn that your side (the good guys) terminated as many or more than the supposed bad guys. There are plenty of accounts of what the Soviets did to Germany right after the war -- it was a horror. They sent hundreds of thousands of German POWs to die in Russia -- our Dwight D. Eisenhower had assured those men the would be returned home. They were soldiers in war -- POWs. We sent them to their premeditated executions. Post war. That's a crime.
One need look no further than the Mideast today. We see our government funding our "arch enemies" to assist the regime change demanded by the usual suspects.
I'm just done with the charichature bad guys and the same narratives over and over again. When you look into those narratives, most of them don't stand up to scrutiny. Most were written by the Soviets -- and we know they staged a camp after the fact because they had no cameras when they liberated the camp. That would make a fascinating movie of moral ambiguity. That's something for exploration.
What do we get with the eternal bad guys? Just some writer and director doing an expensive virtue signal by trodding ground so thoroughly they've paved a superhighway on it for ease of travel.
I want my movies to punch up, not down to non-existent enemies who disappeared in the past (the Not-sees) or non-materialized threats in the present (the in-sells). Anyone who buys it is a gullible NPC who gets their news from the propaganda pipe we call the "legacy media".
This is what we call a "normie take" in the more informed circles... the ones that use facts, reason, and evidence -- not bald assertions out of context delivered by presstitutes who pretend they don't understanding English.
There's no virtue in boldly fighting imaginary monsters. We have a word for those who do so: coward.
Such a thoughtfully put together and well-articulated video. Thank you for making it, Tom.
12:37 gotta pause it here since it's on my list and I'm happy to see that you enjoyed it!
Btw totally agree about Furiosa! I really thought it was fun and a worthy sequel, although it ran a little long and I think needed some editing cuts.
Great list, man.
I really appreciate how much thought and effort you put in. Thanks for the recs!
(also, Dune pt2 is prob every ones #1, lets be honest lol)
happy holydays sir and thank you for your work in 2024 🙏
The settlers wasn't perfect, but the pacing and production were amazing.
So that's the face to that voice! I pictured you as a 50ish German in spectacles and a tweed sweater.
Ordering from high energy to low energy instead of "the best" is so smart! This is the only channel about movies I watch; I'm usually on the book side of things. I hope that more people (my fellow commenters here in particular) come to view film top 10 lists like book top 10 lists: a selection from what that person personally watched/read throughout the hear according to their own personal taste, not a claim to having seen every film released in a year and dunking on all the films not presented.
Thank you!
Very nice list, added some of those films to my personal to watch list. But I am a little sad that not a single animated movie was featured in it, despite 2024 being a great year for animation ( thinking of Flow, LookBack , or La Plus précieuse des Marchandises as a top 3)
Juror #2 is so bad that I feel like I'm in some sort of Asch conformity experiment when I see the positive reviews for it. All of the supporting characters are unidimensional tropes (and poorly acted at that), the twist/premise is simple-minded, and the legal ramifications of multiple events are so laughably problematic that it makes Law & Order SVU look like an accurate documentary series by comparison. If you've ever watched 12 Angry Men and thought Lifetime should make a new version of it, this movie is for you.
Damn right! Such a dumb movie!
In the words of "Luke Skywalker" "Amazing, every word of what you just said was wrong"
Yup waste of time lol
Don't bend the knee and conform buddy!
You said it right.
One of the most idiotic takes I've ever seen
Here’s my personal list of my favorite movies of 2024:
- The Wild Robot
- Dune: Part Two
- Anora
- Challengers
- The Substance
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- Queer (which I just watched last night!)
- Civil War
- I Saw the TV Glow
- Heretic
- A Different Man
- Wicked
- Hit Man
- Inside Out 2
- Love Lies Bleeding
Still need to see The Brutalist, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, A Real Pain, and a few others.
I was rather disappointed in a handful of movies, including and especially Longlegs, Immaculate, Gladiator II, We Live in Time, and Trap, even if I didn’t hate them.
Lotta garbage too. What an odd year.
The wild robot was good but it was not anything special?
@@no_mnom I don’t know, man, I personally loved it. Also I should state that this list is in extremely lose order. I like the films in the top half more than the second half but the specific placements are interchangeable.
If you liked Wild Robot, you'll love Flow. Search the earth for a theater showing it!
Excelente! Muito obrigado por compartilhar a lista ❤️🇧🇷
Like Stories of Old is the best. The substance and uniquely engaging and thoughtful style is unparalleled - so much to love about this channel.
Megalopolis and Heretic were the most original and needed movies of 2024.
Thanks man
Try to see if you can find a way to watch Flow. Its an amazing animation that will make you feel very spiritual.
You have an incredibly profound way of reviewing films. Prolific as well as precise. Reminds me of the great Film Critics that have left us,( Kael, Maslin, Agee, and Ebert to name a few) as have those periodicals that have left us too and become beholden to their main shareholders, and ads, and away from the core truth, honest reviews, with the reviewer putting themselves on the front-line and all the the inspiration that comes from bottomline truth telling. Your use of language and the impressions of quality film, expertly, even though sometimes out of reach, you never stop giving us an experience that is open and specific at the same time. Cheers to your Passion and Point of View, much appreciated. Mike
Hello Mr. van der Linden,
I wanted to thank you for introducing me to Tarkovsky's movies. Just finished watching 'The Stalker' and it was thought provoking to say the least.
I wanted to share a not very well known movie that you might enjoy. It is 'Bridge of Spies', a Spielberg movie from 2015.
Thank You
Wow never heard of the Killian Murphy movie, seems interesting, which directeded?
these are all good picks.
I found this channel last year and I can’t express how much I appreciate this end of year video! Adding all the ones I haven’t seen to my list!
That seamless cut at 27:19😮💨
thanks brother
What’s your Letterboxd? Would love to follow you there as well
Although not in the same caliber of films as your 2024 lists, I recommend watching "My Old Ass." It's a heartfelt, coming-of-age story with an endearing message and playful humor.
The Beast is my favorite film of the year - maybe of several years. I tell everyone to see it.
I knew the sponsorship was coming, even if it was held until the very end ..
Zone of Interest was 2023, but it's such a great film probably deserves 2 years of talking about :)
Guess I'll watch Dune again tomorrow. Sure hope it comes through on your own project.
La Chimera is a masterpiece and so far is the best film of the year for me. Unless I count The Taste of Things (which I consider the best film of 2023), which is probably my favorite film of the decade thus far.
Thank you, Tom, for all your 2024 reviews. Have a nice Christmas and New Year’s. 🎄💙☮️
Great background
Every time I watch your lists I update my watch lists for the holidays 😅
Suprised I didnt see the french counte of monte cristo on the list, some real achievements there in lighting.