BEST WORST/FILMS OF 2024:

The Year's best films, their directors and how/where/when you can see them:

 1) The Brutalist (Brady Corbet) 

      Coming to area theaters January 2025

 2) Anora (Sean Baker) 

     Buy or rent on various platforms

 3) Christmas Eve in Miller's Point (Tyler Taormina) 

     Buy or rent on various platforms

 4) A Complete Unknown (James Mangold) 

     Now in theaters

 5) The Beast (Betrand Bonello); Kinds of Kindness (Yorgos Lanthimos) 

      Buy or rent on various platforms; "KOK" is also streaming on Hulu

 6) All We Imagine as Light (Payel Kapadia) 

      Available to buy or rent on various platforms early 2025

 7) Blitz (Steve McQueen) 

     Stream on Apple TV+

 8) Maria (Pablo Larrain) 

     Stream on Netflix

 9) Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood) 

      Stream on MAX

10) Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola) 

      Buy or rent on various platforms

Honorable Mention (in alphabetical order): 

The Apprentice; The Bikeriders; Civil War; Close Your Eyes; The Count of Monte Cristo; Didi; Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World; Emilia Perez; Evil Does Not Exist; The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed; Green Border; I'm Still Here; Memoir of a Snail; His Three Daughters; Hit Man; Io Capitano; Last Summer; My Old Ass; Nickel Boys; The Old Oak; Queer; A Real Pain; Saturday Night; Strange Darling; The Substance; Wicked; The Wild Robot.

Best auteurist streamer series of 2024:

Disclaimer (Apple TV+; Alfonso Cuaron)

Expats (Amazon Prime; Lulu Wang)

The dishonor roll:

 1) Argylle

 2) Reagan

 3) Dirty Angels

 4) Summer Camp

 5) Tuesday

 6) Kneecap

 7) Borderlands

 8) The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

 9) The People's Joker

10) Moana 2