2024 in films - according to Film Excess

The Top 6 of the Year

 

 

1. Rom - Niclas Bendixen + Best Danish Movie of the Year + Best Romcom of the Year + Best Rome Movie of the Year

 

2. The Apprentice - Ali Abbasi + Best Biopic of the Year + Breakthrough of the Year: Sebastian Stan + Best New York Movie of the Year

3. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 - Kevin Costner + Best Arizona Movie of the Year + Best Epic of the Year + Best Western of the Year

 

4. Gladiator II - Ridley Scott + Best Action Adventure of the Year 

 

5. The Beekeeper - David Ayer + Best Revenge Movie of the Year

6. Vogter - Gustav Möller + Best Prison Movie of the Year

The Bottom 3 of the Year

1. Mørkeland - Mikkel Serup

 

2. Jagtsæson 2 - I Medgang og Modgang - Peter Molde-Amelung 

 

3. Longlegs - Osgood Perkins + Most Overrated Movie of the Year

[9 titles in total]

Notes:

The first edition of the lists of 2024 in films are based on a very small batch of reviewed titles and is therefore bound to likely completely change in future updates.

The best reviewed film of the year is Niclas Bendixen's funny and wise marriage-analyzing romcom Rom. Silver goes to Ali Abbasi's unflattering Trump biopic The Apprentice; and bronze to Kevin Costner's ill-fated western epic Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1. The list goes on with Ridley Scott's tunic escapade Gladiator II; David Ayer's exploitation revenge actioner The Beekeeper; and with Gustav Möller's prison drama Vogter rounding off the list. 

The worst film of the year found so far is Mikkel Serup's nonsensical political thriller Mørkeland; with Peter Molde-Amelung's harebrained crude comedy sequel Jagtsæson 2 - I Medgang og Modgang taking silver, and Osgood Perkins' overly celebrated satanical horror Longlegs bronze.

Many more movies and TV-series will follow in future updates.

 

2024 titles currently on the watch-list:

Never Let Go, Bird, Kung Fu Panda 4, Monsters - season 2, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, The End, Hard Truths, Civil War, Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2, Terrifier 3, MaXXXine, Nosferatu, Nightbitch, Queer, I'm Still Here, Beauty Is Not a Sin, The Thicket, How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness, The Brutalist, Saturday Night, Smile 2, We Live in Time

 

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2023 in films - according to Film Excess 

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Vogter (2024) - Knudsen over-the-edge in Möller's prison drama

♥♥♥♥

 

Star Sidse Babett Knudsen looks disturbed behind a young male on this minimalist poster for Gustav Möller's Vogter

Eva is a dedicated prison guard in a Danish penitentiary. But when the young man responsible for her son's death some years earlier gets transferred there, her composure goes out the window.

 

Vogter is written by Emil Nygaard Albertsen (Eliten (2015)) and co-writer/director Gustav Möller (The Guilty/Den Skyldige (2018)). The original Danish title translates to 'guardian'.

A character study of a woman who loses touch with her normal moral center, the film depends entirely on the performance of Sidse Babett Knudsen (Ted Lasso (2021, TV-series)) as Eva, and Knudsen is predictably dependable. Sebastian Bull (The Hunt/Jagten (2012)) impresses as the unpredictable convict that she latches herself onto.

It may seem a bit incredible that no-one at Eva's job connect any of the dots as to her strange attachment to the prisoner, and also that she manages to dodge consequences, but it is just barely under the radar in terms of what is an actual problem for the film. Vogter is an intense and stern film about our inevitable connections with each other.

 

Watch a trailer for the film here

 

Cost: Unknown, projected 3.5 mil. $

Box office: 603k $ and counting

= Too early to say

[Vogter premiered 22 February (Berlin International Film Festival) and runs 100 minutes. The film has sold 22k tickets in Denmark in 5 days, coming to approximately 360k $. It made 273k $ in France, its only registered market on Box Office Mojo, this summer. It is set to release in Portugal, Hungary and Romania in October. Möller is announced to return with Snow Blind, a thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Knudsen returned in Le Fil (2024). Vogter is fresh at 82 % with a 7.00/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

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