The Medium Place – 2024 Honorable Mentions

Will Ashton

Henry J. Fromage

Once again, I’m giving you way too much to watch. *Sue me (*But actually don’t).

Not Quite “Good” Enough (2023 movies you should watch – in tiers):

First Tier (you could create another great Top 10 out of this, easily)

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat – The Editorial Office – Goodbye Julia – Ghostlight – Longlegs – The Devil’s Bath – Saba – Relay – Maldoror – My Old Ass – Who By Fire – On Becoming a Guinea Fowl – Caught By the Tides – Smile 2 – His Three Daughters – Last Straw – Uprising – The Substance – Cloud – A Different Man – Anora – Blink Twice – The Brutalist – Dune: Part Two

Second Tier

The Book of Clarence – Good One – Kneecap – Sujo – Didi – Girls Will Be Girls – The Complex Forms – Chaperone – Exhibiting Forgiveness – The Kitchen – African Giants – Through Rocks and Clouds – Who Do I Belong To? – The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed – The Klezmer Project – Close Your Eyes – LaRoy, Texas – 12.12: The Day – The Fox – Monkey Man – Paris Memories (Revoir Paris) – Universal Language – Block Pass – The Story of Souleymane – The Other Way Around – Scoop – Shirley – All We Imagine As Light – The Dead Don’t Hurt – The Last Stop in Yuma County – The First Omen – Inside Out 2 – Father & Soldier – A Quiet Place: Day One – One Life – Starve Acre – The Boogeyman – In a Violent Nature – Humane – Sing Sing – We Grown Now – Went Up the Hill – The Last Showgirl – Horizonte – Meat – On Swift Horses – The Return – Rumours – Harvest – Conclave – Julie Keeps Quiet – My Sunshine – The Girl with the Needle – The Seed of the Sacred Fig – Babygirl – On Falling – Vermiglio – The Fire Inside – Queer – Bring Them Down – The Edge of Night – Happyend – The Order – An Unfinished Film – Of Dogs and Men – Familia – The Witness – Quiet Life – They Will Be Dust – Paying for It – Rebel Ridge – Red Island – Irena’s Vow – Cuckoo – La Suprema – My Eternal Summer – Matt and Mara – The Outrun – The Apprentice – Grand Tour – The Shrouds – Hard Truths – Winner – Joker: Folie a Deux – Disappear Completely – Blitz – The Goldman Case – Only the River Flows – Emilia Perez – Hijack 1971 – June Zero – The Line – Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point – Young Woman and the Sea – Armand – The Piano Lesson – Robot Dreams – Problemista – Small Things Like These – Nosferatu – The Peasants – Lake George – Things Will Be Different – Better Man – The Room Next Door – Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World – How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies – A Complete Unknown – September 5 – I’m Still Here – Black Dog – Lost Ladies

Handling the Undead – Between the Temples – Rob Peace – Veni Vidi Vici – Little Death – Brief History of a Family – Reinas – Slide – The Accident – In the Land of Brothers – Tendaberry – In the Summers – Love Me – Daruma – Suncoast – Coup! – Janet Planet – Sweet Dreams –  About Thirty – Puan – Gasoline Rainbow – Will – The Wild – The Girls are Alright – Woodland – When the Light Breaks – It Doesn’t Matter – Holy Cow – Simon of the Mountain – Kanaval – The Beast – Arthur the King – Force of Nature: The Dry 2 – Spaceman – Asphalt City – Sasquatch Sunset – The Glassworker – Kidnapped – Knox Goes Away – Tuesday – In the Land of Saints and Sinners – Citizen of a Kind – I.S.S. – The Movie Teller – Cassandro – Acide – The Long Game – Monica – The Boys in the Boat – A Sacrifice – Immaculate – No One Will Save You – Story Ave – Horizon: An American Saga, Chapter 1 – Daddio – Land of Bad – Mexico 86 – Stopmotion – Tiger Stripes – Totem – The Cut – The Assessment – Bird – Sharp Corner – The Village Next to Paradise – Quisling, The Final Days – Without Blood – The Courageous – Daniela Forever – Flow – Crocodile Tears – Harbin – The End – Daughter’s Daughter – Dead Mail – Superboys of Malegaon – Ka Whawhai Tonu, Struggle Without End – The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos – The Wolves Always Come at Night – Planet B – Taxi Monamour – The Mohican – Shepherds – U Are the Universe – Seven Days – The Party’s Over – The Exiles – Gulizar – Boong – The Mother and the Bear – Firebrand – The Swallow – Bantu Mama – Widow Clicquot – Booger – The Dive – Lousy Carter – Pepe – April – The Damned – The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire – The Friend – Oh, Canada – Lee – Apartment 7A – Look Back – 2:15 PM – In Her Place – Rez Ball – The Platform 2 – Heretic – Juror #2 – Caddo Lake – Green Night – Greedy People – Falling Stars – Mandrake – Wicked – In Our Day – Maria – The Six Triple Eight – The People’s Joker – Here – Absolution – Oddity – Memoir of a Snail – Bauryna Salu – Hidden Face -We Live in Time –

Studies in Pure Entertainment:

Thelma – Self Reliance – Alienoid: Return to the Future – Ransomed – The Beekeeper – Badland Hunters – Mean Girls – Argylle – Ricky Stanicky – Exhuma – Sleep – The Roundup: Punishment – Crumb Catcher – Road House – Dad & Step-Dad – Yannick – The Last Video Store – Shatter Belt – The Fall Guy – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – The Stranger – Hundreds of Beavers – Damsel – Late Night with the Devil – Sixty Minutes – Dogman – Sleeping Dogs – Wicked Little Letters – Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire – Challengers – South Park: The End of Obesity – The American Society of Magical Negroes – Under Paris – Abigail – Escape – MaXXXine – Snack Shack – Lisa Frankenstein – Project Silence – Night Swim – Twisters – Deadpool & Wolverine – Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F – Saw X – Mission: Cross – The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare – I, the Executioner – It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This – Alien: Romulus – Trap – The Instigators – The Deliverance – Jackpot! – Brave Citizen – Wolfs – The Wild Robot – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – V/H/S Beyond – Terrifier 3 – Saturday Night – Speak No Evil – Never Let Go – The Opera! – Azrael – Dark Harvest – Gladiator II – Red One – Riddle of Fire – It’s What’s Inside – Brothers – Babes – Late Bloomers – Fly Me to the Moon – Carry-On – Handsome Guys – New Normal – Don’t Move – There’s Something in the Barn – The 4:30 Movie – Cunk on Life – Y2K – Rap World – Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – The Count of Monte Cristo – Moana 2 –

Docs to Watch:

Man on the Run – Yellow Door: ’90s Lo-fi Film Club – Hell Camp: Teen Nightmare – Skywalkers: A Love Story – Union – Seeking Mavis Beacon – Gaucho Gaucho – Eternal You – Never Look Away – Agent of Happiness – Every Little Thing – Black Box Diaries – Ibelin – Petro – Citizen Weiner – Demon Mineral – Inheritance – The Herricanes – Sugarcane – Nocturnes – Porcelain War – Daughters – The Greatest Night in Pop – Sly – The Gullspang Miracle – Great Photo, Lovely Life – The Truth vs. Alex Jones – Chowchilla – They Called Him Mostly Harmless – What Jennifer Did – The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem – The Walk – The Contestant – Bye Bye Tiberias – A Binding Truth – Impossible Town – JessZilla – The In Between – Country Brawlers – Mourning in Lod – Small Town Universe – False Positive – Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy of Detroit – What’s Next – Silver’s Uprising – Rouge – Girls State – Brandy Hellville & The Cult of Fast Fashion – Citizen Sleuth – Rather – Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food – MoviePass, MovieCrash – Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest – Flipside – Jim Henson: Idea Man – How to Rob a Bank – Sleeping Giant – For Love & Life: No Ordinary Campaign – Race to the Summit – Tell Them You Love Me – The Specter of Boko Haram – The Final: Attack on Wembley – War Game – A Revolution on Canvas – The Strike – TWST- Things We Said Today – Love, Charlie: The Rise and Fall of Chef Charlie Trotter – Untold: Sign Stealer – Fireline – God & Country – Stopping the Steal – Untold: The Murder of Air McNair – Inside D-Day: Filmmakers on the Frontline – The Freedom of Fierro – Will & Harper – I Am Celine Dion – Pavements – No Other Land – Suburban Fury – The Brink of Dreams – 7 Beats Per Minute – Running for the Mountains – The Streak – Death Without Mercy – Blink – Film is Dead. Long Live Film! – Sweet Bobby: My Catfish Nightmare – Frida – Jailbreak: Love on the Run – Hollywoodgate – The Menendez Brothers – The Flats – Bad Faith – The Last of the Sea Women – Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano – Sisterhood – Zurawski vs. Texas – How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer – At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking – Americonned – Praying for Armageddon – Missing From Fire Trail Road – Ernest Cole: Lost and Found – Water for Life – Martha – Brisa – Mediha – Igualada – The Battle for Laikipia – The Last Journey – My Sweet Land – Dahomey – Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law? – Queendom – Kamay – Motherboard – Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story – Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy – We Will Dance Again – Look Into My Eyes – Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa – Power – Food, Inc. 2 – The Bibi Files – The Texas Cheerleader Murder Plot – The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout – Separated – 06:30 – Eno – The Devil’s Climb – Hummingbirds – Carville: Winning is Everything, Stupid – Night is Not Eternal – Elton John: Never Too Late

Not Quite “Bad” Enough:

Prom Dates – Mad Heidi –  Out of Darkness – Eternal Visionary