#995: Top 10 Films of 2024

Adam

1. All We Imagine as Light

2. The Brutalist

3. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

4. The People’s Joker

5. Anora

6. Megalopolis

7. Challengers

8. Love Lies Bleeding

9. National Anthem

10. Red Rooms

Josh

1. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

2. The People’s Joker

3. All We Imagine as Light

4. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

5. Anora

6. Challengers

7. I Saw the TV Glow

8. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

9. Close Your Eyes

10. Good One

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Michael Phillips

• All We Imagine as Light

• Anora

• The Brutalist

• Challengers

• Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

• Green Border

• Janet Planet

• My Old Ass

• Nickel Boys

• A Real Pain

marya E. gates

1. No Other Land

2. Flow

3. The Monk and the Gun

4. Nickel Boys

5. Slow

6. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

7. Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry

8. Sometimes I Think About Dying

9. Green Border

10. Hundreds of Beavers

Breakdown

4. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
3. All We Imagine As Light, Anora, Challengers
2. The Brutalist, Green Border, The People’s Joker, Nickel Boys
1. Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry, Close Your Eyes, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Good One, Hundreds of Beavers, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, I Saw The TV Glow, Janet Planet, Love Lies Bleeding, Megalopolis, The Monk and The Gun, My Old Ass, National Anthem, No Other Land, A Real Pain, Red Rooms, Slow, Sometimes I Think About Dying

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Guest ‘Film of the Year’ Picks

Amy Nicholson, DUNE: PART TWO
Chris Klimek, NICKEL BOYS
Ryan McQuade, THE BRUTALIST
David Chen, THE BRUTALIST
Mekado Murphy, THE SUBSTANCE
Billy Ray Brewton, CHALLENGERS
Veronica Phillips, LOVE LIES BLEEDING
Mitchell Beaupre, CHALLENGERS
Alison Willmore, DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD
Aisha Harris, A REAL PAIN
Isaac Feldberg, I SAW THE TV GLOW
Melissa Tamminga, GOOD ONE
Sam Van Hallgren, THE BIKERIDERS

#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

#969: Top 5 Movies for Graduates (Revisited)

ADAM

1. Say Anything

2. Columbus

3. The Last Picture Show

4. Kiki’s Delivery Service

5. Kicking and Screaming (1995)

JOSH

1. Ikiru

2. Vagabond

3. Into the Wild

4. My Neighbor Totoro

5. Toy Story 3

Michael Phillips

• Zero For Conduct

• Cooley High

• Lady Bird

• Adventureland
  

#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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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