2024 in Review
- The Blue Angels, A, great jet footage and stories of pilots and crew
- Wicked, Part 1, A, well realized design and very good performances
- The Order, A, great action and acting in classic police story
- A Complete Unknown, A-, well done small movie about a key time
- Deadpool and Wolverine, A-, fun, violent, crude, mindless action movie
- Touch, A-, well made, slow movie of a past romance
- Inside Out 2, A-, too similar to the first, but a great concept
- Moana 2, A-, nice chance to revisit these characters
- Conclave, B+, sumptuous look, fine acting, thin story
- Flow, B+, pretty animation, but also a little slow and dark
- The Wild Robot, B+, beautiful animation and a familiar story
- The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, B+, fun, mindless, WW2 caper movie
- A Real Pain, B+, nicely made road trip movie with good characters
- Dune: Part Two, B, epic movie, but doesn't really pay off
- Didi, B, coming of age story about an obnoxious kid
- The Fall Guy, B, fun movie, but doesn't distinguish itself
- Housekeeping for Beginners, B-, stressful, noisy movie, unique perspective
- Goodrich, B-, nice character study, not groundbreaking
- Twisters, B-, decent enough story and action, kinda slow
- Gladiator II, B-, not great and not my thing
- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, B-, easy to watch, but not trying that hard
- The American Society of Magical Negroes, C+, neat idea can't be stretched to feature length
- Anora, C+, unlikeable spoiled rich partier hires a stripper
- Challengers, C, unlikeable characters, gimmicky direction
- The Brutalist, C-, overly long movie filled with victims and hate
- Megalopolis, D, long, weird, pointless, self-indulgent