Quick-Shot Film Reviews: 2024 New Releases

Okay, these Quickshot reviews will consist of my very short review without context. The films included on this list are only the ones I watched during 2024, released during that year.

1) All We Imagine As Light

Dir: Payal Kapadia

I really liked this one. It's reminiscent of old parallel films but also quite beautiful with the use of colors and characters.

2) Queer

Dir: Luca Guadagnino

My most anticipated of the year. I'm a big Daniel Craig fan, and he was fantastic in this. Very beautiful; the cinematographer, Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, also did two others on this list (Challengers, Trap). He is very good!

3) Furiosa

Dir: George Miller

Absolutely stunning film, had me in a chokehold for months after.

4) Twisters

Dir: Lee Issac Chung

Sequel-Remake of the 1996 film Twister. I love Twister! Twisters is good, but it's nothing compared to the original Twister. It's a very fun film, though; I just needed more of the supporting cast to really sell me on it, yet I love it.

5) Dìdi

Dir: Sean Wang

Fun, nostalgic film that gets you in the feels if you are me and have no social life.

6) I Saw the TV Glow

Dir: Jane Schoenbrun

Again, seduced by the screen, everything feels like a memory; it’s beautiful and breathtaking.

7) Challengers

Dir: Luca Guadagnino

A second Guadagnino has hit my ranking. Wow, I mean, it was just an amazing theater experience. The relatively straightforward plot twists and turns itself in a delicious way. The tension is there, and it will snap.

8) Conclave

Dir: Edward Berger

I had a lot of fun with this one; it's a relatively low-stakes mystery but also very silly to me. I liked a lot of the characters.

9) Dune 2

Dir: Denis Villeneuve

Quite good, left out my favorite part of the book though. I forgive Denis for being Canadian, but I will not forgive sidelining Liet-Kynes and the Ecology of Dune.

10) Lisa Frankenstein

Dir: Zelda Williams

Really fun romcom. I liked the soundtrack a lot.

11) A Real Pain

Dir: Jesse Eisenberg

It was very nice, very straightforward, and very heartfelt.

12) A Complete Unknown

Dir: James Marigold

Yeah, I'll admit Timothee Chalamet is my favorite modern guy; he won me over.

13) The Brutalist

Dir: Bradley Cobert

Loved the first half, lost me in the last half.

14) Trap

Dir: M. Night Shyamalan

I did like this one a lot. Cooper Trap, my good friend, I will miss you greatly.

15) Godzilla x Kong: New Empire

Dir: Adam Wingard

I'm a sucker from the Monsterverse -- it's my MCU slop -- but this one...kinda did suck whenever Kong wasn't on screen, which is surprising cuz I'm a Godzilla guy.

16) Monkey Man

Dir: Dev Patel

It was pretty good, loses itself a bit in the middle, finds itself again then loses again a bit at the end.

17) Megalopolis

Dir: Francis Ford Coppola

I did like a lot of it. I found it to be very interesting, even if ridiculously so at times.

18) Mean Girls

Dir: Arturo Perez Jr. & Samantha Jayne

First film I saw in theaters this year, and it was okay but nothing crazy spectacular.

19) Deadpool & Wolverine

Dir: Shawn Levy

Almost homophobic in a lot of ways, definitely me-phobic. Genuinely felt like getting hit with a wet fish by an annoying middle schooler who just learned gay people were real and is trying to make every joke ever about it.

20) War of the Rohirrim

Dir: Kenji Kamiyama

What if Black Widow was in Middle Earth? What if your idiot son was even stupider? What if all the Rohan scenes from Lord of the Rings were one movie?

21) Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Dir: Gil Kenan

This one felt 4 hours long despite being less than 2. Felt like I watched one of those "TV Shows supercut into a Movie."

22) The Killer's Game

Dir: J.J. Perry

Insane. Love it for that. But it's also really bad for the same reason.

23) Red One

Dir: Jake Kasdan

I hated this one; it was like if you took the 3 worst MCU films and put the worst parts together. It annoyed me a lot.