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#972: Top 5 Films of 2024 (So Far)

Adam

5. Challengers
4. Tuesday
3. Love Lies Bleeding
2. Hit Man
1. The People’s Joker

Josh

5. I Saw the TV Glow
4. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
3. Challengers
2. The People’s Joker
1. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Michael Phillips

5. Tuesday
4. We Grown Now
3. La Chimera
2. Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
1. Challengers

#957: 2024 Oscar Picks

Best Picture

Adam

Will win: OPPENHEIMER
Should win: OPPENHEIMER
Should have been nominated: MAY DECEMBER
Replace: MAESTRO

Josh

Will win: OPPENHEIMER
Should win: ANATOMY OF A FALL
Should have been nominated: THE BOY AND THE HERON
Replace: MAESTRO


Best Director

Adam

Will win: Christopher Nolan, OPPENHEIMER
Should win: Christopher Nolan, OPPENHEIMER
Should’ve been nominated: The Academy got it right.

Josh

Will win: Christopher Nolan, OPPENHEIMER
Should win: Justine Triet, ANATOMY OF A FALL
Should have been nominated: Wes Anderson, ASTEROID CITY
Replace: Yorgos Lanthimos, POOR THINGS


Best Actress

Adam

Will win: Emma Stone, POOR THINGS
Should win: Sandra Hüller, ANATOMY OF A FALL
Should have been nominated: Natalie Portman, MAY DECEMBER
Replace: MAESTRO

Josh

Will win: Anette Bening, NYAD
Should win: Sandra Hüller, ANATOMY OF A FALL
Should have been nominated: Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, YOU HURTY MY FEELINGS
Replace: Annette Bening, NYAD


Best Actor

Adam

Will win: Paul Giamatti, THE HOLDOVERS
Should win: Cillian Murphy, OPPENHEIMER
Should’ve been nominated: Andrew Scott, ALL OF US STRANGERS
Replace: Bradley Cooper, MAESTRO

Josh

Will win: Paul Giamatti, THE HOLDOVERS
Should win: Cillian Murphy, OPPENHEIMER
Should have been nominated: Teo Yoo, PAST LIVES
Replace: Bradley Cooper, MAESTRO


Best Supporting Actress

Adam

Will win: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, THE HOLDOVERS
Should win: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, THE HOLDOVERS
Should’ve been nominated: Rachel McAdams, ARE YOU THERE, GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET
Replace: America Ferrera, BARBIE

Josh

Will win: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, THE HOLDOVERS
Should win: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, THE HOLDOVERS
Should have been nominated: Julianne Moore, MAY DECEMBER
Replace: Jodie Foster, NYAD


Best Supporting Actor

Josh

Will win: Robert Downey Jr., OPPENHEIMER
Should win: Ryan Gosling, BARBIE
Should’ve been nominated: Charles Melton, MAY DECEMBER
Replace: Robert De Niro, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

Adam

Will win: Robert Downey Jr., OPPENHEIMER
Should win: Ryan Gosling, BARBIE
Should’ve been nominated: The Academy got it right.

#949: Top 10 Films of 2023

Adam

  1. All of Us Strangers

  2. Oppenheimer

  3. Killers of the Flower Moon

  4. Asteroid City

  5. The Holdovers

  6. The Taste of Things

  7. Anatomy of a Fall

  8. May December

  9. The Teachers’ Lounge

  10. The Zone of Interest

11-19 (Alphabetical order)
The Iron Claw
The Killer
Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troigros
Past Lives
Poor Things
Showing Up
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Suzume
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (plus Dahl shorts)

Josh

  1. The Boy and the Heron

  2. Anatomy of a Fall

  3. Asteroid City (plus Dahl shorts)

  4. You Hurt My Feelings

  5. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

  6. All of Us Strangers

  7. Skinamarink

  8. Priscilla

  9. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

  10. Barbie

11-20
11. Past Lives
12. The Zone of Interest
13. May December
14. Killers of the Flower Moon
15. Godzilla Minus One
16. The Holdovers
17. Suzume
18. Four Daughters
19. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
20. Rodeo


Michael Phillips

  1. Past Lives

  2. The Boy

  3. Killers of the Flower Moon

  4. Barbie

  5. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

  6. The Zone of Interest

  7. Return to Seoul

  8. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (plus Dahl shorts)

  9. Oppenheimer

  10. May December

11-20 (Alphabetical order)
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Fair Play
Four Daughters
I’m a Virgo
In the Rearview
Poor Things
The Royal Hotel
Showing Up
A Thousand and One
The Unknown Country

marya E. gates

  1. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

  2. Plan 75

  3. Past Lives

  4. Amanda/Fremont

  5. The Blue Caftan

  6. Godland

  7. La Chimera

  8. Kokomo City

  9. Lakota Nation vs. United States

  10. BlackBerry

12-20
12. May December
13. Blue Jean
14. Passages
15. Priscilla
16. Origin
17. Hannah Ha Ha
18. Brother
19. King Coal
20. Bottoms


Special Guests

Aisha Harris, MAY DECEMBER
Melissa Tamminga, MAY DECEMBER
Scott Tobias, THE ZONE OF INTEREST
Mitchell Beaupre, ANATOMY OF A FALL
David Chen, ANATOMY OF A FALL
Ryan McQuade, OPPENHEIMER
Chris Klimek, OPPENHEIMER
Matt Singer, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Keith Phipps, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Veronica Phillips, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Sam Van Hallgren, POOR THINGS
Amy Nicholson, FAIR PLAY
Betty Lavandero, THE HOLDOVERS
Roxana Hadadi, SOCIETY OF THE SNOW
Isaac Feldberg, THE TASTE OF THINGS

#854-855: Top 10 Films of 2021

Adam

  1. Petite Maman

  2. The Worst Person in the World

  3. The Power of the Dog

  4. Pig

  5. Licorice Pizza

  6. Summer of Soul

  7. The Killing of Two Lovers

  8. Drive My Car

  9. The Card Counter

  10. Annette

Josh

  1. The Power of the Dog

  2. Identifying Features

  3. The French Dispatch

  4. Summer of Soul

  5. Zola

  6. Petite Maman

  7. Memoria

  8. Passing

  9. About Endlessness

  10. The Green Knight


Michael Phillips

  1. A Night of Knowing Nothing

  2. The Underground Railroad

  3. Drive My Car

  4. Passing

  5. West Side Story

  6. The Lost Daughter

  7. Licorice Pizza

  8. Summer of Soul

  9. It's a Sin

  10. The Green Knight

Dana Stevens (alphabetical order)

  • Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar

  • The Disciple

  • The Green Knight

  • A Hero

  • Licorice Pizza

  • Parallel Mothers

  • The Power of the Dog

  • Summer of Soul

  • The Velvet Underground

  • West Side Story


Special Guest #1s

Pt. 1:

Katie Rife - The Power of the Dog
Sam Van Hallgren - Annette
Isaac Feldberg - This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
Cat Sullivan - C'mon, C'mon
Sarah Welch-Larson - Pig
Carlos Aguilar - Identifying Features

Pt. 2:

Matt Singer - Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
Alison Willmore - The Lost Daughter
Mekado Murphy - Drive My Car
Mitchell Beaupre - Titane
Scott Tobias - Drive My Car
Marya Gates - Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
Keith Phipps - The Power of the Dog
Sean Baker - Titane / Benedetta
Roxana Hadadi - The Green Knight
Chris Klimek - Licorice Pizza
Melissa Tamminga - The Power of the Dog
Aisha Harris - Summer of Soul


 
 

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