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.
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.
You can find the charts for 2024 here. Once you are there you can use the filter controls at the top to slice and dice the data as you see fit.
(If you are interested in the technical guts of these graphs, you can find the source code here)