No reason to dilly-dally. 2024 was another reasonably slow film-watching year, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have a few favorites, so let’s go directly to the list.

Best Animated Feature Film: Flow (Straume)

Best Documentary Feature Film: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

Best Live-Action Feature Film: I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui)

Bonus:

Best Film (Released before 2024): Hold Me Tight (Serre Moi Fort)

Best Television: Slow Horses, Season Four

Best Short Film: –

Best Book (Released in 2024): The City and Its Uncertain Walls, by MURAKAMI Haruki (Translated by Philip Gabriel)

Best Book (Released before 2024): 4 3 2 1, by Paul Auster

Best Videogame: Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, by Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios.

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The remaining films are alphabetically listed below:

All We Imagine as Light
Anora
The Beast (La Bête)
The Brutalist
Daaaaaalí! / The Second Act (Le Deuxième Acte)
Evil Does Not Exist (Aku wa Sonzai Shinai)
Look Back (Rukku Bakku)
Maria
My Sunshine (Boku no Ohisama)
The Room Next Door
Souleymane’s Story (L’Histoire de Souleymane)

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Thank you for reading!

PS: This is as good a place to write this as any. Going forward, I’m considering a change in this blog’s concept; since its inception over a decade ago, the idea has been to write about every single film I watched, as soon after as possible. Going forward, I may loosen that a bit. Most likely the impact will be minor, but every once in a while a film doesn’t generate enough excitement for me to write about it. I’m not sure how I’ll do it; I may write a shorter entry, skip it completely, or just post a note that I watched it. TBD, but I nevertheless felt compelled to make some sort of announcement. Thanks again for reading!