OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
2024: Our favourite films
Sebastian Zavala @ Ventana Indiscreta [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Looking back, 2024 has been a great year for cinema. So much so that, for the first time since 2022, I have had to compile a list of fifteen favorite films instead of ten, adding one more of the best re-releases. And we have had it all: excellent blockbusters, good Peruvian cinema, memorable independent productions, and genres of all kinds. I can’t complain, so I only hope that 2025 will be just as satisfying or even better.
Aaron’s Top Ten Favorite Films of 2024
Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
- Excerpt: Across deserts, dams, and detention centers, with stops in Philly, Brighton Beach, and Arrakis, among other amazing places, along the way, here are Aaron Neuwirth’s favorite films of 2024, including honorable and special mentions!
Best films of 2024
- Excerpt: It’s the best (and the rest of the best) of 2024.
- Excerpt: Here’s to 2024 – a year of mixed blessings, to put it mildly, yet a year in which cinema, once again, demonstrated its vitality as an art form and its ability to serve as a mirror of the world we too often take for granted.
Best Movies of 2024: Our Individual Top 10 Lists
Sebastian Zavala @ Loud and Clear Reviews [Spanish]
- Excerpt: 25 of our writers shared their rankings of best films of 2024, with a total of 97 recommendations that include some of this year’s biggest hits and many lesser known hidden gems that we think you should watch!
Favourite films of 2024, for Sebastian Zavala
Sebastian Zavala @ Cinencuentro.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: And so we come to the end of the year. A year that, fortunately, has been very good for world cinema, even more so than 2023, and in which we have had a bit of everything: memorable animated films, good Peruvian films, intriguing blockbusters, quality indie cinema, and more. Therefore, this time I have a list of 15 favorite films instead of ten, as well as ten honorable mentions, and a group of re-releases that were worth experiencing on the big screen.
FSHG’s Best of Film 2024 List
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: The roundup has come, yee-haw! It’s C.H. Newell’s favourite films, across all genres, of 2024.
FSHG’s Favourite Horror of 2024
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Ah, 2024. What a year for the grim, the grotesque, and the Great Satan!
The Movies of 2024: Sequels and Everything Else
Chris Barsanti @ Eyes Wide Open
- Excerpt: Every movie that’s not part of a blockbuster fantasy, kids, or sci-fi franchise now feels like an indie, no matter how broad its appeal.
Top 15 Films of 2024 – Allen’s Picks
Allen Almachar @ The MacGuffin
Top Ten Films of 2024
Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
Top Ten TV Shows of 2024
Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
Essays
Babygirl
Cheers to Ten Years of The Forgetful Film Critic!
Josh Thayer @ The Forgetful Film Critic
- Excerpt: When my then-partner (now-wife) Rae was finally able to convince me in late 2014 to put aside my doubt and self-consciousness about my skill and talent (or lack thereof) as a writer, it proved to be the end of my self-imposed cinematic dark period. This month marks the tenth anniversary of publishing my very first review here in my quiet little corner of the internet. What a wild, wonderful, fulfilling decade it’s been.
Awards Coverage
Contender: Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Contender: Exhibiting Forgiveness
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Contender: Femme
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Contender: Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Contender: La Cocina
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Contender: The Idea of You
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Poll: Re-Awarding Best Production Design, 2004
Rating the Nominees, Group 1, #9
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Rating the Nominees, Group 2, #9
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Rating the Nominees, Group 3, #9
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Rating the Nominees, Group 4, #9
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Rating the Nominees, Group 5, #8
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Rating the Nominees, Group 6, #8
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Rating the Nominees, Group 7, #8
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Vermiglio
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Upcoming Film Previews
Captain America: Brave New World, Updated
The Colors Within
A Complete Unknown, Updated
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, Updated
Into the Deep
Lilo & Stitch, Updated
Me, Myself & the Void
The Monster Beneath Us
One of Them Days
Parthenope
Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare
Other Types of Articles
Eight Gifts of Hanukkah
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: When it comes to the central character in Eight Gifts of Hanukkah, every man should reject her latkes.
The Holiday Sitter
Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: While there have been gay and lesbian romances in one or two Hallmark movies, The Holiday Sitter is the first to have a same-sex romance as its central plot. It will probably not the last, but one can only hope that future gay Hallmark movies are better than The Holiday Sitter.
No Country for Old Men – The Criterion Collection (4K UHD Blu-ray Review)
- Excerpt: Entertainment for adults, fascinating to decipher, and packed with great effort from all involved – No Country for Old Men is one of the best films of the 2000s, one of a few Coen masterpieces, and one that will easily stand the test of time when considering what it has to say about the way of the world, dark as it may be.
The Sex Lives of College Girls: Season 3, Episode 6
Sebastian Zavala @ NoEsEnSerie.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: The balance between comedy and drama was better handled, and overall, and like some of the previous episodes of the season, it felt more similar to what we have enjoyed so much in past years.
Star Wars – Skeleton Crew: Episode 5
Sebastian Zavala @ NoEsEnSerie.com [Spanish]
- Excerpt: It’s a premise full of potential that is well used by this fifth episode of “Skeleton Crew,” which combines some action with plenty of suspense and a good dose of mystery.
Box Office History: Weeks 52 & 53, 2024)
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: December 27
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: December 28
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: December 29
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: December 30
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: December 31
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: January 1
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: January 2
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
