2024 sucked in so many different ways. On the other hand, it was a really good year for movies, especially non-franchise films! THE SUBSTANCE blew my doors off, STRANGE DARLING was excellent, and the experimental ENO doc was wild.
This was the first year since pre-Quarantine that I broke 140 features, and I’m fairly certain that is because there was simply more interesting things to see.
If you are interested in the technical guts of these graphs, look here.
The graphs, as well as the list itself, are behind the jump below…
- Total # of movies:
- Total # of features:
- Total # of shorts:
In 2023, I saw 77 films in a theatre and this year I saw 71. While that’s down a bit, I also wasn’t able to attend IFFBoston’s Fall Focus so it makes sense.
I continue to watch more new (to me) films year-over-year. I think I’m finding less reason to fall back on comfort movies. I’m not expecting this to hold in 2025.
The genre breakdown is pretty typical, for me
A very typical distribution, with the May IFF spike…
That’s it for the graphs, below is the raw list of movies. If you hover your mouse over the title of a film you should get a brief review from me in the tooltip. (Titles in italics are repeat viewings.)