Movies I've seen from 2024

8/10: It's a well-written and acted satire with some hilarious and deep moments. The characters are interesting, the story is engaging, and there's a strong theme of identity throughout.

7/10: It's fantastic on a technical and acting level, and it feels very slice of life, like this is how things would operate in an actual civil war in the modern-day US. More could be done with the characters, though.

7/10- It falls into convenience factors from time to time, and the Beanie Feldstein character, while well acted and written, has an underdeveloped role in the movie, the writing, acting, and characters are all great, and it has a strong sense of dark humor that's well executed.

6/10: It definitely feels like a Tim Burton movie, but in the sense that someone really wanted to mimic said feeling or knew it was the best way to do it, and did it well. The premise, writing, and characters are all fun, and the production design is enjoyable. At the end of the day, it's just a pretty typical movie that you know the story of from the trailer.

6/10: It's an incredibly amusing movie that feels slice-of-life like for a sasquatch family, though it's repetitive to the point where the same jokes and story beats keep happening.

6/10: It has a fantastic first two-thirds with great writing, acting, and character building, but falls apart in the last third as everything is over-explained and the entire movie gets boringly rehashed.

6/10: It's elevated by its technical aspects and the acting, but the characters and the story feel underdeveloped and rushed despite the nearly three hour runtime.

6/10: It's a well-made film with great acting, set design, and choreography. The songs are weakly written and don't keep the film moving forward for the most part, though, and the writing and characters tend to be lackluster.

6/10: It's an entertaining and fun new take on the original movie, and while the dance choreography is impeccable and some of the songs are well written and performed, they do feel like they're in the way. The movie also goes overboard with trying to outdo or reference the iconic and memed scenes from the first movie.

6/10: It's rushed on a storytelling and character development level, but its acting is top notch.

5/10: It has an amazing premise with fantastic visuals and , but is harmed by its poor writing, lack of characters, and nonexistent story.

5/10: It has some new and interesting ideas and doesn't feel like a rehash of the first Omen (save for a couple of parts), and it's well acted, but the characters are fairly one-note or non-existent until they're suddenly needed, and the horror elements for most of the movie feel inorganic. The opening scene is the only one that stands out, whether it be from direction, cinematography, tone, etc.

5/10: It has a fun premise and there are good attempts to make all of the aspects of the film work, but it's just bogged down by it being uninteresting on a story and character level.

5/10: It's a competently made action movie, but it lacks any excitement and doesn't utilize its premise much in any sequences until the end.

5/10: It adds nothing to what people already know; it's just, "Here's the general difficulties with recording a song, but this time it's 30 musicians."

4/10: It's a generic horror movie that doesn't do anything interesting. There is no atmosphere, the characters are all flat, and it isn't scary. Sydney Sweeney and the other actors are all fantastic, though.

4/10: For such a limited idea coming from a short film, it handles itself well enough. It doesn't feel desperate for story material, and it justifies its length. That said, the characters are flat and one-dimensional, with useless building blocks and elements that never go anywhere (the daughter's boyfriend, the son's baseball ambitions, etc.). Besides the acting, nothing memorable stands out. On top of all of that, it's simply not scary or atmospheric.

3/10: It's such a generic spy thriller that it feels like it's a fake movie that would exist inside of a different movie or television show. The characters are flat and uninteresting, though played their best by the mostly talented cast. Bryce Dallas Howard is the only one who stands out as particularly bad in the movie. The writing is cliche, the humor unfunny and poorly delivered, and the only notable thing about it is the cat.

3/10: The movie is nowhere near as fun or entertaining as the other Monster-verse movies, the stock characters that already only exist to move the plot along to get to usually awesome monster fights are incredibly boring and pace-slowing this time around (with Kong's character arc being the least interesting one of all), and in a universe with giant kaijus, this film finds a way to be nonsensical: how is Kong, a giant ape with no other real strengths, apparently a threat or an equal to a nuclear lizard or these other kaijus with fun powers?

2/10: It's a try-hard and unscary horror premise that's attempting at something deeper, but falls completely flat. The characters are uninteresting, boring slates with no depth, nothing holds any weight, the dialogue and story is dumb and illogical to the world established, and there's nothing scary: "Ooh, a cute teddy bear. I'm shaking."

1/10: It probably has the most going for it character-wise, yet they're the worst written, acted, and developed characters in the whole franchise. The writing is poor, it has no personality, the character arcs, and the characters for that matter, are, at best, bungled and, at worst, non-existent, and the actors are either phoning it in or are very bad.

1/10: Bad acting, poorly written dialogue, and uninteresting characters make this a chore to sit through, but what makes the movie especially egregious is that the main character's actions have a net-negative impact. On top of all of that, ludicrous coincidences for the sake of plot convenience reign galore.