Between all the doom and gloom of the year, there were – as there always have been and always will be – masterpieces large and small
Helena Howard in a scene from "I Saw the TV Glow", which The Globe calls "an evocative and hypnotizing exploration of the adolescent pains."“Survive till ‘25″ has been the mantra of Hollywood this year, with the industry still recuperating from the somewhat self-inflicted wounds of two strikes, one pandemic and countless tectonic shifts in how, why and where audiences watch movies.
At about this time last year, I felt that 2023 would go down as a landmark era for film both domestic and abroad – as rich even as the cinematic bounty delivered in 2019, the Last Great Year before the global movie industry truly and well lost its mind. I’m afraid that 2024 offers no such historical potential – this was an anxious stretch of recovery, reassessment and retrenchment that not even the desperate portmanteau magic of “Glicked” could rescue. But between all the doom and gloom, there were – as there always have been and always will be – masterpieces large and small. Here are the top 10 films of 2024, and how to watch them right now.
I’ll admit that this odd-couple pairing of documentaries is designed to stir. But both films fearlessly speak to the most critical issues of the moment, even if they also both slightly stumble along the way. Inset on the front lines of Russia’s repugnant invasion of Ukraine, the filmmaker dares to look the enemy in the eye and ask whether the world prefers their villains as incontrovertibly evil or something more ambiguous.
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