Watch-List 05/24

A list of all the great and interesting films and shows I’ve seen in September and October of 2024.

★★★★★ – Favourite / Classic / Masterpiece
★★★★½ – Excellent
★★★★ – Great
★★★½ – Very Good (Minor Flawed Elements)
★★★ – Good (Flawed Elements)
★★½ – Interesting (Major Flaws)

Signs
★★★
dir. M. Night Shyamalan
Science Fiction Horror
[USA, 2002]
Budget: $72 million

Hereditary
★★★★
dir. Ari Aster
Psychological Horror
[USA, 2018]
Budget: $10 million

Человек с киноаппаратом
(Man with a Movie Camera)
★★★★½
dir. Dziga Vertov
Silent Experimental Documentary
[Soviet Union, 1929]

Nanook of the North
★★★½
dir. Robert J. Flaherty
Silent Documentary / Docufiction
[USA / France, 1922]

Ours (Bear)
★★★½
dir. Morgane Frund
Documentary Short
[Switzerland, 2022]

Stories We Tell
★★★
dir. Sarah Polley
Documentary
[Canada, 2012]

Before Sunrise
★★★★
dir. Richard Linklater
Romantic Drama
[USA / Austria, 1995]
Budget: $2.5 million

Kung Fu Panda
★★★½
dir. John Stevenson and Mark Osborne
Animated Martial Arts Comedy
[USA, 2008]
Budget: $130 million

A Torinói Ló (The Turin Horse)
★★★★
dir. Bela Tárr
Period Drama
[Hungary, 2011]

Das Lehrerzimmer
(The Teacher’s Lounge)
★★★½
dir. İlker Çatak
Drama
[Germany, 2023]

Jurassic Park
★★★½
dir. Steven Spielberg
Science Fiction Action
[USA, 1993]
Budget: $63 million

Joker: Folie à Deux
★★★
dir. Todd Phillips
Musical Psychological Thriller
[USA , 2024]
Budget: $190–200 million

Cleopatra
★★★½
dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Epic Historical Drama
[USA, 1963]
Budget: $31.1 million

Interstellar
★★★
dir. Christopher Nolan
Epic Science Fiction Drama
[UK / USA, 2014]
Budget: $165 million

The Substance
★★
dir. Coralie Fargeat
Satirical Body Horror
[UK / USA / France, 2024]
Budget: $17.5 million

The Lost World: Jurassic Park
★★★½
dir. Steven Spielberg
Science Fiction Action
[USA, 1997]
Budget: $73 million

Remember the Titans
★★★½
dir. Boaz Yakin
Biographical Sports Drama
[USA, 2000]
Budget: $30 million

トラ・トラ・トラ！
(Tora! Tora! Tora!)
★★★½
dir. Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda, Kinji Fukasaku
Epic War
[USA / Japan, 1970]
Budget: $25 million

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
★★½
dir. Tim Burton
Dark Fantasy Comedy Horror
[USA, 2024]
Budget: $100 million

Mission: Impossible II
★★★
dir. John Woo
Action Spy
[USA / Germany, 2000]
Budget: $120–125 million

警察故事4之簡單任務
(Jackie Chan’s First Strike)
★★★
dir. Stanley Tong
Action Comedy
[Hong Kong, 1996]

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
★★★½
dir. Joe Johnston
Science Fiction Comedy
[USA, 1989]
Budget: $18 million