#i.s.s.

So yeah it kind-of a bit late to be posting my best/worst films of 2023 list three months into 2025, well there's a reason for that.

Since for my 2020 list I had managed to cover both theatrical and streaming releases, I had planed on doing the same from then on. Unfortunately due to a combination of procrastination and me finally managing to get a job after donkey's years of searching, I've fallen a bit behind on streaming. But it was starting to get a bit ridiculous so I've decided to say fuck it and post rough versions of my 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 lists with only the theatrical releases so far, and I'll just add the streaming ones on in italic as I try and catch up over the year.

Hopefully I'll have the lists done by the end of the year. Hopefully.

So anyway in 2024, I saw 93 new theatrical releases (which ones - along with any streaming releases - can be found on my Letterboxd page: ‎(letterboxd.com/firebirdmaximus/list/2024-releases/), twenty-three more than the previous year (firebirdmaximus.tumblr.com/post/776951630323204096/the-best-and-worst-films-of-2023).

And once again a note to non-UK viewers, as with previous years, since I’m English and live in England and subsequently watch films at cinemas in England, this list will be going by UK release dates so If you see a film on the list that you swore was from 2023 it was probably not released here until 2024, contrarywise If your surprised that a particular movie from this year is not on the list it might not have been released here til 2025.

If you see a streaming film here on my list and it's not in italics, that means it probably got a limited theatrical release somewhere in my area and that's how I saw it.

Best Films: * Inside Out 2 * The Wild Robot

Runner Up Best Films: * Better Man * Hundreds of Beavers * Monkey Man * Origin * Paddington in Peru * Poor Things * Rebel Moon Part Two: The Scargiver * Robot Dreams * Sleep * Transformers One * Wicked * Your Monster

Honorary Mentions: * American Fiction * Anora * Deadpool & Wolverine * Dune Part Two * Hit Man * Kneecap * Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes * Lisa Frankenstein * Migration * Moana 2 * Mufasa: The Lion King * Sonic the Hedgehog 3 * Spellbound * That Christmas * The Colour Purple * The Holdovers * The Substance

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The Meh: * Challengers * Despicable Me 4 * I.S.S * Kinds of Kindness * The Book of Clarence * The Outrun ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I.S.S. will be released on Digital on February 6 before hitting Blu-ray and DVD on March 12 via Decal Releasing. The 2023 sci-fi thriller is currently in select theaters.

Gabriela Cowperthwaite (Blackfish) directs from a Blacklist script by Nick Shafir. Ariana DeBose, Chris Messina, John Gallagher Jr., Masha Mashkova, Costa Ronin, and Pilou Asbæk star.

No special features are included. Read on for the trailer.