According to Letterboxd, I’ve seen nearly forty movies that have had a 2024 release so far (a Boston-area theatrical release or, if there wasn’t one, a streaming debut.) Below are fifteen (in alphabetical order by title) to keep in mind six+ months from now when I’m compiling my year-end list. I viewed four at TIFF last September, two at IFFBoston in May, plus two more at IFFBoston’s Fall Focus last October. As for the rest, all were streamed at home apart from Challengers and Robot Dreams, the latter perhaps my favorite animated feature in years. Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (which I could not get tickets for at TIFF) is currently on MUBI and worth the price of a subscription; I plan on revisiting it soon, more than willing to take in its 163-minute running time again. As I wrote in my brief review, “(It uses) humor as a balm in expressing outrage at a world gone absurd” and may prove as essential to its own time as Parasite was five years ago.
- Challengers
- Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World
- Egoist
- Evil Does Not Exist
- The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed
- How To Have Sex
- Hundreds of Beavers
- Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell
- Janet Planet
- Perfect Days
- Pictures of Ghosts
- Robot Dreams
- Seagrass
- The Teachers’ Lounge
- Tuesday
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