Special section: The 2024 Film Festivals
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MUST SEE...:
7.3 Payal Kapadia: All We Imagine as Light (India) 7.3 Miguel Gomes: Grand Tour (Portugal) 7.3 Jia Zhangke: Caught by the Tides (China) 7.2 Matthew Rankin: Universal Language (Canada) 7.2 Alonso Ruizpalacios: La Cocina (Mexico) 7.2 Jane Schoenbrun: I Saw The TV Glow (USA) 7.2 Dea Kulumbegashvili: April (Georgia) 7.2 Maura Delpero: Vermiglio (Italy) 7.1 Titus Kaphar: Exhibiting Forgiveness (USA) 7.1 Tim Mielants: Small Things Like These (Belgium) 7.1 Gustav Moeller: Vogter/ Sons (Sweden) 7.1 Matthias Glasner: Sterben/ Dying (Germany) 7.1 Sean Baker: Anora (USA) 7.1 Adilkhan Yerzhanov: Dala Kaskyry/ Steppenwolf (Kazakhstan) 7.1 JT Mollner: Strange Darling (USA) 7.1 Jeremy Saulnier: Rebel Ridge (USA) 7.1 Adam Elliot: Memoir of a Snail (USA) 7.1 Gints Zilbalodis: Flow (Lithuania) 7.1 Brady Corbet: The Brutalist (USA) 7.1 Jesse Eisenberg: A Real Pain (USA) 7.1 Mike Leigh: Hard Truths (Britain) 7.1 Nathan Silver: Between the Temples (USA) 7.1 Rungano Nyoni: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Britain) 7.0 Cedric Kahn: The Goldman Case (France) 7.0 Tim Fehlbaum: September 5 (Switzerland) 7.0 Tim Mielants: Small Things Like These (Belgium) 7.0 Andrea Arnold: Bird (Britain) 7.0 Nora Fingscheidt: The Outrun (Germany) 7.0 Quentin Dupieux: Daaaaaalí! (France) 7.0 Guillem Morales: The Wasp (Spain) 7.0 Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Cloud (Japan) 7.0 Zoe Kravitz: Blink Twice (USA) 7.0 Tyler Taormina: Christmas Eve at Miller's Point (USA) 7.0 Sean Wang: Didi (USA) 7.0 Mohammad Rasoulof: Dane-ye Anjir-e Ma'abed/ The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Iran) 7.0 Magnus von Horn: The Girl With the Needle (Sweden) 7.0 Lou Ye: An Unfinished Film (China) 7.0 Jonathan Millet: Ghost Trail (France) 7.0 Jacques Audiard: Emilia Perez (France) 7.0 Coralie Fargeat: The Substance (France) 7.0 Andrew Cumming: Out of Darkness (USA) 7.0 Robert Morgan: Stopmotion (Britain) 7.0 Rudy Mancuso Musica (USA) 7.0 David Zellner & Nathan Zellner: Sasquatch Sunset (USA) 7.0 Alex Garland: Civil War (Britain) 7.0 Chris Nash: In a Violent Nature (USA) 7.0 Jeff Nichols: The Bikeriders (USA) 7.0 Angela Schanelec: Music (Germany) 7.0 Greg Kwedar: Sing Sing (USA) 7.0 Levan Akin: Crossing (Sweden) 7.0 India Donaldson: Good One (USA) 7.0 Pedro Almodovar: The Room Next Door (Spain) 7.0 Justin Kurzel: The Order (Australia) 7.0 Bogdan Muresanu: The New Year That Never Came (Romania) 7.0 Megan Park: My Old Ass (Canada) 7.0 Kazik Radwanski:Matt and Mara (Canada) 7.0 Aaron Schimberg: A Different Man (USA) 7.0 Ray Yeung: Cong Jin Yihou/ All Shall Be Well (China) 7.0 Chris Sanders: The Wild Robot (USA) 7.0 RaMell Ross: Nickel Boys (Germany) 7.0 David Moreau: MadS (France) 7.0 Edward Berger: The Conclave (Germany) 7.0 Joshua Oppenheimer: The End 7.0 Walter Salles: Ainda Estou Aqui/ I’m Still Here 7.0 Sandhya Suri: Santosh |
SO SO...:
6.9 Denis Villeneuve: Dune Part Two (Canada) 6.9 Julien Colonna: The Kingdom 6.9 Ludovic & Zoran Boukherma: And Their Children After Them 6.9 Quay Brothers: Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass 6.8 Rachel Morrison: The Fire Inside 6.8 Annie Baker: Janet Planet 6.8 Wei Liang Chiang & You Qiao Yin: Mongrel 6.8 Leonardo Van Dijl: Julie Keeps Quiet 6.8 Karim Ainouz: Motel Destino 6.8 Emanuel Parvu: Three Kilometres to the End of the World 6.8 Claude Barras: Savages 6.8 Maryam Moghaddam & Behtash Sanaeeha: My Favourite Cake 6.8 Rose Glass: Love Lies Bleeding 6.8 Dag Johan Haugerud: Sex 6.8 Luca Guadagnino: Challengers 6.8 Pamela Adlon: Babes 6.8 Noah Schamus: Summer Solstice 6.8 Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson: Ghostlight 6.8 Pierre Mouchet: Schlitter - Evil in the Woods. 6.8 Ti West: MaXXXine 6.8 Saule Bliuvaite: Akiplesa/ Toxic 6.8 Zia Anger: My First Film 6.8 Petar Valchanov & Kristina Grozeva: Triumph 6.8 Jason Yu: Sleep 6.8 Reema Kagti: Superboys of Malegaon 6.8 Sam Yates: Magpie 6.8 Amrou Al-Kadhi: Layla 6.8 Joshua Oppenheimer: The End 6.8 Francis Ford Coppola: Megalopolis 6.8 Paul Schrader: Oh Canada 6.7 Laurynas Bareisa: Seses/ Drowning Dry 6.7 Sebastien Laudenbach & Chiara Malta: Chicken for Linda! 6.7 Mahdi Fleifel: To a Land Unknown 6.7 Constance Tsang: Blue Sun Palace 6.7 Guy Maddin: Rumours 6.7 Alexandre de La Patelliere: The Count of Monte Cristo 6.7: Damian Mc Carthy Oddity 6.6 Lorcan Finnegan: The Surfer 6.6 Pat Boonnitipat: How to Make Millions Before Grandma 6.6 Luca Guadagnino: Queer 6.6 Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala: The Devil’s Bath 6.6 Laura Chinn: Suncoast 6.6 Cameron Cairnes & Colin Cairnes: Late Night With the Devil 6.6 Vera Drew: The People's Joker 6.6 Bradley Rust Gray: I'll Be Your Mirror 6.6 Michael Gracey: Better Man 6.5 Thordur Palsson: The Damned 6.5 James Mangold: A Complete Unknown 6.5 Nick Park: Wallace & Gromit - Vengeance Most Fowl 6.5 Dev Patel: Monkey Man 6.5 Dallas Jenkins: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever 6.5 Scott Beck & Bryan Woods: Heretic 6.5 Joanna Arnow: The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed 6.5 Leos Carax: C'est pas Moi/ It's Not Me 6.5 Eva Birthistle: Kathleen Is Here 6.5 Alessandra Lacorazza: In the Summers 6.5 John Crowley: We Live in Time 6.5 Pablo Larrain: Maria 6.5 Fabrice Du Welz: Maldoror 6.5 Sarah Friedland: Familiar Touch 6.5 Murat Firatoglu: One of Those Days When Hemme Dies 6.5 Sangsoo Hong: Suyoocheon/ By the Stream 6.5 Woody Allen Coup de Chance 6.5 Arkasha Stevenson: The First Omen 6.5 Pawo Choyning Dorji: The Monk and the Gun 6.5 Wade Allain-Marcus: Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead 6.5 Minhal Baig: We Grown Now 6.5 Theda Hammel: Stress Positions 6.5 Ali Asgari & Alireza Khatami: Terrestrial Verses 6.5 Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet: Abigail 6.5 Rachel Lambert: Sometimes I Think About Dying 6.5 Runar Runarsson: When the Light Breaks 6.5 Kirill Serebrennikov: Limonov - The Ballad 6.5 Boris Lojkine: The Story of Souleymane 6.5 Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross: Gasoline Rainbow 6.5 Erica Tremblay: Fancy Dance 6.5 Lee Tamahori:The Convert 6.5 Janis Pugh: Chuck Chuck Baby 6.5 Rich Peppiatt: Kneecap 6.5 Tilman Singer: Cuckoo 6.5 Dominique Abel & Fiona Gordon: The Falling Star 6.5 Andrea Arnold: Bird 6.5 Shuchi Talati: Girls Will Be Girls 6.5 Marielle Heller: Nightbitch 6.5 Giovanni Tortorici: Diciannove 6.5 Neo Sora: Happyend 6.5 David Mackenzie: Relay 6.5 Gabrielle Brady: The Wolves Always Come at Night 6.5 Lina Vdovii & Radu Ciorniciuc: Tata 6.5 Samuel Van Grinsven: Went Up a Hill 6.5 Azazel Jacobs: His Three Daughters 6.5 Alexandre Aja: Never Let GoBy Beatrice Loayza 6.5 Sydney Freeland: Rez Ball 6.5 Ellen Kuras: Lee 6.5 Ben Snyder: Allswell in New York 6.5 Sang-soo Hong: A Traveler’s Needs 6.5 Steve McQueen: Blitz 6.5 Yassir Lester and his brother Isaiah: The Gutter 6.5 Ridley Scott: Gladiator II 6.5 Jack Huston: Day of the Fight 6.5 Jaume Collet-Serra: Carry-On 6.5 Parker Finn: Smile 2 6.5 Rachel Morrison: The Fire Inside 6.5 Gia Coppola: The Last Showgirl 6.5 Michiel Blanchart: La Nuit se Traine/ Night Call |
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Passable...:
6.4 Hannah Peterson: The Graduates 6.4 David Cronenberg: The Shrouds 6.4 Jianjie Lin: Brief History of a Family 6.4 Klaudia Reynicke: Reinas 6.4 Robert Eggers: Nosferatu 6.4 Adam Rehmeier: Snack Shack 6.3 Scandar Copti: Happy Holidays 6.3 Josh Margolin: Thelma 6.2 Tayarisha Poe: The Young Wife 6.2 Halina Reijn: Babygirl 6.0 Michael Cristofer: The Great Lillian Hall 6.0 Uberto Pasolini: The Return 6.0 Caroline Lindy: Your Monster 6.0 Xavery Zulawski: Kulej 6.0 George Miller: Furiosa - A Mad Max Saga 6.0 Marc Forster: White Bird 6.0 Kurdwin Ayub: Mond/ Moon 6.0 Bing Wang: Qing chun (Ku) 6.0 Mar Coll: Salve Maria/ Mothers Don't 6.0 Gianluca Jodice: The Flood 6.0 Tato Kotetishvili: Holy Electricity 6.0 Kelsey Mann: Inside Out 2 6.0 Rodrigo Prieto: Pedro Paramo 6.0 David Ayer: The Beekeeper 6.0 David Leitch: The Fall Guy 6.0 Michael Showalter: The Idea of You 6.0 Jerry Seinfeld: Unfrosted 6.0 Hannah Marks: Turtles All the Way Down 6.0 Kazik Radwanski: Matt and Mara 6.0 Piero Messina: Another End 6.0 Julia von Heinz: Treasure 6.0 Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego: American Star 6.0 Emma Westenberg: Bleeding Love 6.0 Bertrand Mandico: She Is Conann 6.0 Anthony Chen: Drift 6.0 Keir O'Donnell: Marmalade 6.0 Ethan Coen: Drive-Away Dolls 6.0 Michael Keaton: Knox Goes Away 6.0 Simon Cellan Jones: Arthur the King 6.0 Michael Mohan: Immaculate 6.0 Guy Ritchie: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare 6.0 Zack Snyder: Rebel Moon — Part Two The Scargiver 6.0 Caitlin Cronenberg: Humane 6.0 Richard Ramsey & Joel Smallbone: Unsung Hero 6.0 Olivier Assayas: Hors du Temps/ Suspended Time 6.0 Ming-liang Tsai: Abiding Nowhere 6.0 Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias: Pepe 6.0 Abderrahmane Sissako: Black Tea 6.0 Bruno Dumont: The Empire 6.0 Wang Xiaoshuai: Wotu/ Above the Dust 6.0 Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Chime 6.0 Aaron Schimberg: A Different Man 6.0 Nora Fingscheidt: The Outrun 6.0 David and Nathan Zellner: Sasquatch Sunset 6.0 Yorgos Lanthimos: Kinds of Kindness 6.0 Michel Hazanavicius: The Most Precious of Cargoes 6.0 Marija Kavtaradze: Slow 6.0 Gilles Lellouche: Beating Hearts 6.0 Christophe Honore': Marcello Mio 6.0 Agathe Riedinger: Wild Diamond 6.0 Wes Ball: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 6.0 Frank Berry: Aisha 6.0 Wes Ball: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 6.0 John Krasinski: IF 6.0 Tig Notaro & Stephanie Allynne: Am I OK? 6.0 Jake Allyn: Ride 6.0 Michael Sarnoski: A Quiet Place - Day One 6.0 Penny Lane: Confessions of a Good Samaritan 6.0 Pierre Creton: A Prince 6.0 Lee Isaac Chung: Twisters 6.0 Damian Mc Carthy: Oddity 6.0 Chiwetel Ejiofor: Rob Peace 6.0 Joseph Schuman & Austin Stark: Coup! 6.0 Mikko Makela: Sebastian 6.0 Justin Baldoni: It Ends With Us 6.0 Monica Sorelle: Mountains 6.0 Max Eggers & Sam Eggers: The Front Room 6.0 Terry McDonough: Damaged 6.0 Asif Kapadia: 2073 6.0 Gianni Amelio: Campo di Battaglia/ Battlefield 6.0 Jon Watts: Wolfs 6.0 Luis Ortega: Kill the Jockey 6.0 Athina Rachel Tsangari: Harvest 6.0 Jason Reitman: Saturday Night 6.0 William Goldenberg: Unstoppable 6.0 Andrew DeYoung: Friendship 6.0 Marco Calvani: High Tide 6.0 Vasan Bala: Jigra 6.0 Andrew Boodhoo Kightlinger: Lost on a Mountain in Maine 6.0 Robert Zemeckis: Here 6.0 Clint Eastwood: Juror #2 6.0 Jon Chu: Wicked 6.0 Malcolm Washington: The Piano Lesson 6.0 Derrick Harden & Crystal Moselle: The Black Sea 6.0 Ben Taylor: Joy 6.0 Amber Sealey: Out of My Mind 6.0 David Derrick, Jason Hand, and Dana Ledoux Miller: Moana 2 6.0 Jordan Weiss: Sweethearts 6.0 Lindsay Lohan: Our Little Secret 6.0 Brad Anderson: The Silent Hour 6.0 D.J. Caruso: Mary 6.0 Jeffrey Reiner: Lake George 6.0 Kyle Mooney: Y2K 6.0 Jose Lourenco: Young Werther 6.0 Harmony Korine: Baby Invasion 6.0 Thomas Vinterberg: Families Like Ours 6.0 Astrid Rondero & Fernanda Valadez: Sujo 6.0 John Crowley: We Live in Time 6.0 Aaron Fradkin: Beezel 6.0 Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel: Eat the Night 6.0 Julia Stiles: Wish You Were Here |
YUCK!...:
5.9 James Woods & Nicolas Wright: French Girl 5.8 Josh Cooley: Transformers One 5.7 Jethro Massey: Paul and Paulette Take a Bath 5.6 Tim Burton: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 5.5 Michael Lukk Litwak: Molli and Max in the Future 5.5 Rusty Cundieff: Meet Me Next Christmas 5.5 Marco Tullio Giordana: La Vita Accanto/ The Life Apart 5.5 Marta Mateus: Fogo do Vento/ Fire of Wind 5.5 Mouly Surya: Trigger Warning (2024) 5.5 Soi Cheang: Twilight of the Warriors - Walled In 5.5 Quentin Dupieux: The Second Act 5.5 Kevin Costner: Horizon - An American Saga - Chapter 1 5.5 Chris Pine: Poolman 5.5 Chris Skotchdopole: Crumb Catcher 5.5 Shawn Levy: Deadpool & Wolverine 5.5 Simon Verhoeven: Girl You Know It's True 5.5 Kevin Smith: The 4:30 Movie 5.5 Hallie Myers-Shyer: Goodrich 5.5 Jerry Ciccoritti: Hot Frosty 5.5 Martin Campbell: Dirty Angels 5.0 Paolo Sorrentino: Parthenope 5.0 Felipe Mucci: Detained 5.0 Joshua Morgan: Children of the Pines 5.0 Greg Jardin: It's What's Inside 5.0 Todd Phillips: Joker: Folie a` Deux 5.0 Ali Abbasi: The Apprentice 5.0 Alfonso Cuaron: Disclaimer 5.0 Sara Fgaier: Sulla Terra Leggeri/ Weightless 5.0 Gurcan Keltek: Yeni Safak Solarken/ New Dawn Fades 5.0 Ala Eddine Slim: Agora 5.0 Noemie Merlant: Balconette 5.0 James Hawes: One Life 5.0 Jon Gunn: Ordinary Angels 5.0 DK Welchman & Hugh Welchman: The Peasants 5.0 Jade Halley Bartlett: Miller's Girl 5.0 Molly McGlynn: Fitting In 5.0 Trish Sie: Players 5.0 Matt Vesely: Monolith 5.0 William Eubank: Land of Bad 5.0 Tom Gustafson: Glitter & Doom 5.0 Alejandro Monteverde: Cabrini 5.0 Peter Farrelly: Ricky Stanicky 5.0 Doug Liman: Road House 5.0 Thea Sharrock: The Beautiful Game 5.0 Philip Martin: Scoop 5.0 Ethan Hawke: Wildcat 5.0 Rod Blackhurst: Blood for Dust 5.0 Daishi Matsunaga: Egoist 5.0 Moritz Mohr: Boy Kills World 5.0 D.W. Waterson: Backspot 5.0 Ally Pankiw: I Used to Be Funny 5.0 David Duchovny: Reverse the Curse 5.0 Richard LaGravenese: A Family Affair 5.0 Christy Hall: Daddio 5.0 Ben Bigelow: Thine Ears Shall Bleed 5.0 Greg Berlanti: Fly Me to the Moon 5.0 Chris Renaud & Patrick Delage: Despicable Me 4 5.0 Stelana Kliris: Find Me Falling 5.0 Thomas Napper: Widow Clicquot 5.0 Night Shyamalan: Trap 5.0 Carlos Saldanha: Harold and the Purple Crayon 5.0 Steven Kanter & Henry Loevner: Peak Season 5.0 Fabrice Du Welz: Maldoror 5.0 John Woo: The Killer (remake) 5.0 Brendan Walsh: I'll Be Right There 5.0 Lee Daniels: The Deliverance 5.0 Nacho Vigalondo: Daniela Forever 5.0 Anand Tucker: The Critic 5.0 Susanna Fogel: Winner 5.0 Francois Uzan: Family Pack 5.0 Hans Petter Moland: Absolution 5.0 Simon Otto: That Christmas 5.0 Marielle Heller: Nightbitch 5.0 Giulia Steigerwalt: Diva Futura/ Future Star 5.0 Warren Skeels: The Man in the White Van Review: Sleazy Rider 5.0 Delphine and Muriel Coulin: The Quiet Son |
GASP!...:
4.9 Mario Van Peebles: Outlaw Posse 4.8 Jeff Wadlow: Imaginary 4.8 Ned Benson: The Greatest Hits 4.8 Shannon Tindle & John Aoshima: Ultraman - Rising 4.8 Tom Michell: The Penguin Lessons 4.7 Sam Taylor-Johnson: Back to Black 4.6 Julia von Heinz: Treasure 4.5 Benjamin Brewer: Arcadian 4.5 Terry Loane: The Last Rifleman 4.5 Virgil Vernier: Cent Mille Milliards 4.5 Johan Renck: Spaceman 4.5 Zelda Williams: Lisa Frankenstein 4.5 John Ridley: Shirley 4.5 Tony Goldwyn: Ezra 4.5 Michelle Schumacher: You Can’t Run Forever 4.5 Adil & Bilall: Bad Boys - Ride or Die 4.5 Ishana Night Shyamalan: The Watchers 4.5 Oz Perkins: Longlegs 4.5 Jack Clark and Jim Weir: Birdeater 4.5 Christopher Clarke: Carbon & Water 4.5 Paul Feig: Jackpot! 4.5 Ariel Vromen: 1992 4.5 Mikael Hafstrom: Slingshot 4.5 Sean Ellis: The Cut 4.5 Frederik Louis Hviid: The Quiet Ones 4.5 Samir Oliveros: The Luckiest Man in America 4.5 Philippe Lacote: Killer Heat 4.5 Susannah Grant: Lonely Planet 4.5 Kenji Kamiyama: Lord of the Rings - The War of the Rohirrim 4.2 Chris Weitz: AfrAId 4.0 Joachim Ronning: Young Woman and the Sea 4.0 Renny Harlin: The Strangers - Chapter 14.0 Mark Waters: Mother of the Bride 4.0 Susumu Mitsunaka: Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle 4.0 Bryce McGuire: Night Swim 4.0 George Nolfi: Elevation 4.0 S.J. Clarkson: Madame Web 4.0 Reinaldo Marcus Green: Bob Marley: One Love 4.0 Charles Stone III: The Underdoggs 4.0 Tyler Perry: Divorce in the Black 4.0 Matthew Vaughn: Argylle 4.0 Amelia's Children 4.0 Jeff Chan: Code 8 Part II 4.0 Mike Mitchell & Stephanie Stine: Kung Fu Panda 4 4.0 Adam Wingard: Godzilla x Kong - The New Empire 4.0 Gil Kenan: Ghostbusters - Frozen Empire 4.0 Jean-Stephane Sauvaire: Asphalt City 4.0 Savi Gabizon: Longing 4.0 Joshua John Miller: The Exorcism 4.0 Peter Segal: My Spy - The Eternal City 4.0 Jocelyn Moorhouse: The Fabulous Four 4.0 Doug Liman: The Instigators 4.0 Eli Roth Borderlands 4.0 Fede Alvarez: Alien Romulus 4.0 Julian Farino: The Union 4.0 Robert Schwartzman: The Good Half 4.0 Vaughan Blakey & Nick Pollet: The Greatest Surf Movie in the Universe 4.0 Dominic Savage: Close to You 4.0 Dave Chernin & John Chernin: Incoming 4.0 Rupert Sanders: The Crow 4.0 David Gordon Green: Nutcrackers 4.0 Sean McNamara: Reagan 4.0 J.J. Perry: The Killer' Game 4.0 James Watkins: Speak No Evil 4.0 Jason Reitman: Saturday Night 4.0 Natalie Erika James: Apartment 7A 4.0 Kelly Marcel: Venom - The Last Dance 4.0 Damien Leone: Terrifier 3 4.0 J.C. Lee: Bad Genius 4.0 Gary Dauberman: Salem's Lot 4.0 Max Barbakow: Brothers 4.0 Kelly Marcel: Venom - The Last Dance 4.0 Jake Kasdan: Red One 4.0 Whitney Horn, Lev Kalman: Dream Team 4.0 Mark Rapaport: Hippo 4.0 Vicky Jenson: Spellbound 4.0 Nick Waterman: How to Make Gravy 4.0 Barry Jenkins: Mufasa - The Lion King 4.0 Ben Smallbone: Homestead 4.0 Domingo Gonzalez: Culpa Tuya/ Fault 4.0 Mohammad Kheirandish: Dolphin Boy 4.0 Jeff Fowler: Sonic the Hedgehog 3 4.0 Tyler Perry: The Six Triple Eight 4.0 J.C. Chandor: Kraven the Hunter 3.5 McG: Uglies |