The Best Movies of 2024 (So Far)
It’s been a banner year for genre fare like horror, but 2024’s best films to date are full of diverse and surprising offerings
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Checked out The Dead Don't Hurt last night.
It's a slower burn movie, but I found it effective in its storytelling.
The movie was filmed between October - December 2022 in Ontario & B.C., Canada, as well as Durango, Mexico ... so visually it was great to look at with plenty of outdoor shots and natural lighting. I liked seeing the remote nature of the home & how the exterior vegetation was built up over time. The kid was believable in that he wasn't overbearing or precocious. He was often quietly observing the goings on around him. The relationship at the core of the movie felt genuine. The villain was effective in being a piece of shit, etc.
The Dead Don't Hurt - Wikipedia
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The Dead Don't Hurt is a 2023 Western film written, directed, and produced by Viggo Mortensen, and starring Mortensen, Vicky Krieps, Solly McLeod, Garret Dillahunt, Colin Morgan, Ray McKinnon, Luke Reilly, Atlas Green, and Danny Huston. Mortensen also composed the score to the film.
The Dead Don't Hurt premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2023.
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 83% of 101 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.2/10. The website's consensus reads: "A solid step forward for Viggo Mortensen as a director, The Dead Don't Hurt offers viewers a comfortably old-fashioned Western with a satisfying, character-driven story."[15] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 70 out of 100, based on 23 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[16]
Peter Debruge of Variety wrote, "How many partners have attached themselves to someone else's dream, then had to adapt when it proves disappointing? Films rarely frame that experience from the woman's perspective, which makes Mortensen's enlightened approach fairly refreshing, even if Vivienne's independence manifests itself in a way that anyone can sense is bad news".[17]
Checked this movie out on Monday night. Thought it was pretty good. Felt gritty and real given the scenarios and intensity of the job.
What worked really well in the movie's favor is that the co-leads' chemistry didn't feel forced. Plus the individuals playing patients / civilians felt authentic. Felt like real people in medical emergencies.
Asphalt City (originally titled and released in some countries as Black Flies) is a 2023 American thriller drama film directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire and written by Ryan King and Ben Mac Brown, based on the 2008 novel Black Flies by Shannon Burke. It stars Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan as paramedics working in New York City. Gbenga Akinnagbe, Raquel Nave, Kali Reis, Michael Pitt, Katherine Waterston, and Mike Tyson appear in supporting roles.
The film explores the effects of psychological trauma experienced by first responders. It premiered at the 76th Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2023. It was released theatrically by Roadside Attractions and Vertical on March 29, 2024.
Movie was triggering and gritty captured the true vibe of working under crazy conditions in NYC i enjoyed it scale of 1 to 10 an 8
examples?*ahem*
I told all yall who were saying the entire movie industry was dead and no one was going to the movies anymore to pump the breaks remember?
Yall seeing these box office numbers?
And how WRONG all these so called projections have been?
Listen to me now believe me later on.
The Thicket | Official Trailer | A Tubi Original
They're doing what CW, Fox, and countless other media organizations have done to build up their networks.Peter Dinklage, Juliette Lewis Clash as Cold-Blooded Killers in ‘The Thicket’ Dark Western Trailer
The ‘Game of Thrones’ actor plays bounty hunter Reginald Jones facing off against Cutthroat Bill (Lewis) in the Tubi crime thriller to be released Sept. 6.www.hollywoodreporter.com
Where they getting all this money from?
Tubi, is focused on becoming a legitimate respected source of entertainment I see
They're doing what CW, Fox, and countless other media organizations have done to build up their networks.
I was mostly talking about them building off the backs of their Black consumers. Wash, rinse, and repeat.No one said different.
My point was they are improving their public image from punchline to respected brand in what seems to be almost overnight.
When they appeared at one point to be fine with perception of being a low rent brand.
I was mostly talking about them building off the backs of their black consumers. Wash, rinse and repeat.
The Thicket | Official Trailer | A Tubi Original