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| Ricochet (1991) |
Last January, on an episode of The File Room, the podcast I started with my friend Michaela in which we talk about The X-Files (check it out! It's a pretty good podcast! We're just about to start covering the third season!) I lamented that I hadn't been watching enough films lately, and that to remedy that I would make "watch 1,000 films" my New Year's resolution for 2024. Even at the time I knew I was never going to do that, since there truly are not enough hours in the day to do that on top of having a job which doesn't involve film criticism, but it was always more of a "shoot for the moon, at least you'll land among the stars" goal to break me out of my rut and force me to finally watch films that I had been meaning to watch for, in some cases, decades.
In an absolute sense, it was a total failure since I "only" watched 500 films over the course of the year, but in a spiritual sense, it was a roaring success. The overwhelming majority of the films I watched were first-time watches, and by forcing myself to watch anything and everything, I discovered new favourite films and filmmakers at a pace that I haven't experienced since I was first getting into movies in my early 20s. The films listed here are the cream of a very large crop, and I was very pleased to have finally seen some rightly revered masterpieces that I had been putting off for far too long, and discover some films that resonated with me in ways that I was not expecting.
Note: The list is purely chronological by year of release.