connor3real: - the 2024 ILX Film Poll Results Thread

It's a Boxing Day miracle.

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=49 ⸱ Thelma Margolin ⸱ 2024
53 points, 2 votes

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=49 ⸱ Cuckoo
Singer ⸱ 2024
53 points, 3 votes

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48 ⸱ Monkey Man
Patel, Angunawela, Collee ⸱ 2024
54 points, 3 votes

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47 ⸱ The Seed of the Sacred Fig [دانه‌ی انجیر معابد]
Rasoulof ⸱ 2024
55 points, 2 votes

Until this year, I think "vote for movies you saw in (year)" has been working well, but I think boxdbrain might force a different approach going fwd, pt. 1.

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46 ⸱ Hundreds Of Beavers
Cheslik, Tews ⸱ 2024 (2022-2023 festivals)
56 points, 2 votes

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45 ⸱ The Outrun
Fingscheid, Liptrot ⸱ 2024
61 points, 2 votes

The Seed of the Sacred Fig would have been my number one if it wasn't for the final half hour or so, I may not be alone in this opinion

I believe I know what you mean. Fig is actually the only one from this batch I've seen. And I'm only this instant realising that recent mentions of a Thelma probably weren't, in fact, referencing the Trier one!

Monkey Man >>> John Wick

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=43 ⸱ Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
Grimonprez ⸱ 2024
62 points, 2 votes

Well, there's one more people should see.

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=43 ⸱ Oddity
McCarthy ⸱ 2024
62 points, 3 votes

If I'd noticed the voting thread in time I dare say Coup d'etat would have received a third vote.

We're out of the two-vote zone now! Only approved consensus masterworks from here on out.

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42 ⸱ Hit Man
Linklater, Powell, Hollandsworth ⸱ 2024
63 points, 4 votes

*adds approved consensus masterwork to watchlist*

shout-out to the four ILX0rs who saw this together in Park City, Utah last January

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41 ⸱ Presence
Soderbergh, Koepp ⸱ 2025
64 points, 4 votes

two Januarys ago. they all look alike to me.

The trailer for Presence looked intriguing but I never got around to watching it

forgot presence existed tbh.. sodes has kinda lost me recently but i still want to like him

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40 ⸱ Rumours
Maddin, Johnson, Johnson ⸱ 2024
69 points, 4 votes

Rumours is silly and not at all subtle but I thought its details were funny. And it built to an effective conclusion. Come for the charming cast, stay for the doomed haplessness of the neoliberal consensus.

Okay, y'all inspired me to watch this. Bonkers! Tipsy mothra basically OTM methinks. Though I'm faaaintly disappointed that Maddin made the ITA dude the least fleshed-out character. (Possibly *itself* a comment on 21st century Italia lol!?!?)

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39 ⸱ Monster
Kore-eda, Sakamoto ⸱ 2023
70 points, 2 votes

Monster is great! Surprised only 2 votes.

It got five votes last year, coming in then at 19 with 128 points.

Oh ok that makes sense. I probably voted for it then too lol.

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38 ⸱ Kneecap
Peppiat, Chara, Bap, Provai ⸱ 2024
73 points, 4 votes

I got more out of this than I thought I would. Monster proved memorable too, though I guess that outcome was way more predictable.

Anyway, this eerily quiet thread could possibly do without the jibber jabber of a someone wot didn't even vote!

it's back at 46, but Hundreds of Beavers was one of the funniest movies I had seen in a very long time.

Saw Beavers twice in the theatre, months apart, as it’s never going to hit better than with a roaring audience.

Kneecap only played a festival here, I think, so caught up with it this week — much better than the Madness biopic-made-while-we’re-still-a-young-band-starring-ourselves in technical, narrative, and entertainment terms, and admirably bold in how little it includes of their actual music. Would have voted if I’d seen it on the big screen.

I completely forgot to vote for Beavers! But I'm enjoying the countdown. Thanks, sic!

i always get around 10-20 into Beavers before turning it off - only because i forget i want to watch it with my kids so we all get to enjoy the experience

I liked Kneecap, it has a lot going on in multiple ways.

ahhh, how old are the kids roughly?! there's a lot of animal murder.
a lot.

my spouse first showed our then 2 year-old the dark crystal. i think they would survive Beavers.

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37 ⸱ My Old Ass
Park ⸱ 2024
77 points, 4 votes

no Ass enthusiasts?

Loved that movie. I think it was in my top 5? Made me bawl.

Haven't checked, but I think the next is our only non-theatrical flick.

Films you've Written Off/Pointedly Ignored because of their title

(My Old Ass in this case)

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36 ⸱ Rebel Ridge
Saulnier ⸱ 2024
83 points, 3 votes

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35 ⸱ Janet Planet
Baker ⸱ 2024
85 points, 3 votes

ooh, perfect movie

also voted My Old Ass. was relieved it wasn't about a mistreated donkey but then it proved devastating in other ways.

Ha, that image would have puzzled me a month ago. (These days *this* JP's face seems to be on Rage every time I glance at a TV after midnight.)

I liked JP, the film. Perhaps another that would have received a further vote if I was more attentive. I keep meaning to look into Ass.

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34 ⸱ Twilight Of The Warriors: Walled In [九龍城寨之圍城]
Cheang, Au, Shum, Chan, Lai, Yuyi ⸱ 2024
91points, 3 votes

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30 ⸱ Queer
Guadagnino, Kuritzkes, Burroughs, Reznor, Ross ⸱ 2024
104 points, 5 votes

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29 ⸱ Juror #2
Eastwood, Abrams ⸱ 2024
105 points, 5 votes

Really enjoyed Queer, tho the Ayahuasca sequence pushed it toward Fear and Loathing territory. I thought Juror #2 was ok, a decent take on old-fashioned courtroom thrillers.

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=27 ⸱ Friendship
DeYoung ⸱ 2025
106 points, 4 votes

did that play anywhere other than TIFF in 2024?

^ part 3

Until this year, I think "vote for movies you saw in (year)" has been working well, but I think boxdbrain might force a different approach going fwd, pt. 1.

i like that dumb Bill Simmons rewatch movie thread appearing because 1000000% Juror #2 would've made his list in a good 5 or so years.

sic, how is the point scoring done?

35 points for your top film, 34 points for your number 2, etc

so a film could theoretically get in at the top of one voter's list and the bottom of another's with 36 points. lowest score from two votes this year was 28, lowest from three was 33.

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=27 ⸱ Drive Away Dykes
Cooke & Coen ⸱ 2024
106 points, 6 votes

do you think it’d make sense to disqualify anything that places in like, the top 10 from the previous year?

juror #2 was in my top 5. old clint’s still got it

I should have seen Dykes by now, if only for the Coen-ness. Maybe I'll try later. Seeing as 'tis the season (in this house anyway) to hide from summer and do sedentary things, I've already watched Between the Temples today. I had previously been oblivious and it's a good'un! Thanks for the... collective recommendation?!

Haha, meant to use italics tags in the middle there.

if only for the Coen-ness

it's not the most fruitful way to approach it (unless "I wish they'd never moved away from goofy cheap crime caper comedies after Raising Arizona" is a factor, in which case hurry up!) - but a silly season relax-o-view is probably ideal. and the second lead is Antipodean!

do you think it’d make sense to disqualify anything that places in like, the top 10 from the previous year?

no, things placing twice is not a problem! (and is fun as long as I do remember to check and note their previous scores) - year of impact is real, and international release dates are even realer. but a big part of "vote in the year you saw it" was to AVOID tedious vote-policing and even more tedious in-thread-arguing...

and people outsourcing their entire recollection to a functionally incorrect date on a database recently purchased by venture capital appears to require new policing (due to clear pollution of the dataset, despite it being set as broadly as possible). sucks, but at least two of the three are inarguable this year. Beavers I might just be personally affectionate for.

between the temples is pretty great

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26 ⸱ Dune Part Two
Villeneuve, Spaihts, Herbert ⸱ 2024
114 points, 5 votes

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25 ⸱ Kinds Of Kindness
Lanthimos, Filippou ⸱ 2024
118 points, 5 votes

well I guess the poll's over.

the dinner scene in Between the Temples... thought my friend was going to sink into his seat and disappear forever

also voted Queer. ended up seeing it a second time, and though it has problems i almost convinced myself it's great. the score is incredible, brings to mind Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, and Piazzolla in Happy Together.

It's weird how little I remember of Kinds Of Kindness some 18 months on. None of the segments seem to have lodged in my brain at all. Might have another look.

I see what you mean about Drive-Away, sic! But, yeah, there are definitely worse ways to spend ~90 minutes. :)

We've successfully browbeaten the producers for enough funding for reshoots.

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jfc.

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Well done! This film annoyed me, over two and a half hours of what seemed like leftover ideas warmed back up. An hour shorter and it would have been more tolerable. Also Jesse Plemons looks weird. Good Dio joke though.

Haven't checked, but I think the next is our only non-theatrical flick

This one played at least two festivals before going to youtube.

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=23 ⸱ Rap World
O’Malley, Scharar, Bensinger, Rahill ⸱ 2024
123 points, 5 votes

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=23 ⸱ Civil War
Garland ⸱ 2024
123 points, 6 votes

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=21 ⸱ The Shrouds
Cronenberg⸱ 2024
126 points, 4 votes

fffffffffffffffffffffffffu

Just watched The Shrouds recently, I thought it was engagingly weird if ultimately fairly enigmatic. Lots of ideas rattling around about grief and death, alongside the usual Cronenbergian techno-paranoia.

who can recommend a no-reg imghost that works in all territories in 2026?

I had it down as a '25 release so I didnt vote for it

But I would have

I have a free registered imgbb account sic, if you want me to load the images for you.

I had it down as a '25 release so I didnt vote for it

lol yes that's part 4. or congrats to the four ilx0rs who got flown to Cannes 11 months before the film was released.

btw tipsy I emailed the remaining images to you minutes after your offer! assuming you hate checking seven different email addresses regularly and haven't seen it :)

just watched Hundreds of Beavers with my daughter. we both loved it. me because it was mind bogglingly clever and her because it reminded her of the Pink Panther. what it reminded me of was Kung Pow, though these guys are definitely a lot funnier. I've never seen so much bait and switch in a movie. also the shot in the courtroom where he's with his beaver lawyer and a bunch of them appear behind him like the cover of Jean Michel Jarres Equinoxe is incredible. made me realize this movie genuinely looked better than the big budget ones that are 80% CGI

i need to watch this!

its on Youtube. you can watch it for free. I couldn't find it on any streaming service I had so I figured I'd at least watch the trailer and it turned out the whole movie was on there.

I think kinder is one of literally dozens of people alive today who do not live in the USA, but it’s on Prime, Kanopy, Mubi, Pluto, Hoopla, Apple, Roku, Fubo, Midnight Pulp, Fandor, Philo, blu-ray and digital rental.

Possibly accessible to kinder, it’s on the BFI Player and Shudder, plus digital rentals, and did its second UK/Ireland roadshow tour with live beavers in October.

why thank u.
it's more finding the time tbh, but I will enbeavour

🦫

we watched it over 3 days, the movie breaks down pretty neatly that way, that said don't take too long because there are approximately 8000 callback jokes

Live beavers!

For any passing 'strayans it's been on rotation/online at SBS for ages and looks like it will be for a while yet. It's perhaps not *entirely* up my alley (I kinda hate fun lol) but I appreciated the craft etc.

BTW, thanks again to the Between the Temples voters. I was moved to see the rest of Nate Silver's filmography in subsequent months and was spouting "greatest American filmmaker of our age" and similar hyperbole for a while there. :)

Nathan Silver

Oh god, thanks. He's probably rather tired of such slippage.

Nate Silver's filmography is a terrifying concept