Every year as we construct our Top 10 list, we think: Man. There’s so many good movies. Enter our 2024 Honorable Mentions and Editors’ Choice picks.
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100 voters. 140 movies. It all comes to this: Hyperreal Journal’s Best of 2024 Top 10 list.
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It is a film that is a film and that's all it could ever be. Made by humans, poorly, created for crass and financial goals, visibly, and released to a public who could only hiss and mock it. It is exactly what it is, and I love it dearly.
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A Complete Unknown isn’t just a biopic—it’s a meditation on artistry, identity, and the inevitable sacrifices of chasing immortality.
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Queer is a challenging film. It is not necessarily a kind or optimistic film about the queer experience. But, Luca Guadagnino recognizes the inherent loneliness in queerness. He is not turning away from it—no, he confronts, reveals it.
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This reviewer agrees with the quote from the character Robert McKee from the film Adaptation (2002) that voice-over narration is “flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write [them] to explain the thoughts of a character.” And yet, the voice-over narration found in Moonlighting (1982) is justified, for it effectively conveys the crisis of conscience of its main character.
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This week in Austin, TX, movie screenings, 12/13–12/19.
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Tyler Taormina’s Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point is refreshing in its deep study of the “home for the holidays” concept.
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Though critically acclaimed throughout his career, Ingmar Bergman was never a filmmaker that drew large crowds to his movies. His cerebral horror film The Magician (1958) serves as his revenge on those critical audiences.
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In Venom: The Last Dance, Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and his symbiote Venom are on the run.
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What Dark Angel: The Ascent lacks in Ursula is made up for in spine removals as Angela Featherstone lets loose her sense of justice upon the world.
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Dutch filmmaker Halina Reijn (Bodies Bodies Bodies) brings sex back on screen in a big way with her erotic thriller Babygirl.
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BORDERS|NO BORDERS is the short film competition hosted by Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2024.
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As part of our coverage of Houston Cinema Arts Festival 2024, Hyperreal Film Journal viewed a work-in-progress screening of Connor Sen Warnick’s feature debut, Characters Disappearing.
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This week in Austin community screenings, 12/6-12/12.
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Audition has aged extremely well, so nuanced in its exploration of human nature that it’s been analyzed as both feminist and misogynistic.
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Flesh for Frankenstein stars Udo Kier as the titular Dr. Frankenstein, on an obsessive quest to create two perfect specimens of humanity.
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Exclusive red carpet interviews with The Order cast and crew including screenwriter Zack Baylin and actor Tye Sheridan.
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Exclusive red carpet interviews with Operation Taco Gary’s cast and crew including writer-director Michael Kvamme and actor Simon Rex at Austin Film Festival.
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