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Jan 2025
1h 47m

Covering Our Best Films of 2024

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Happy New Year! Austin and Raymond get into their best films of 2024. What makes a film a "best" film? Was it your experience of watching the film? The performances? The craft? Because it was made by Sean Baker? And stick around until the end for our best performances of the year! Here are the films we get into!


Raymond's Top 5:

I Saw the TV Glow

Furiosa

Fancy Dance

Nosferatu

Anora


Austin's Top 5

Kneecap

Anora

The Substance

Passages

The Count of Monte Cristo


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