by Jacob Jones Hello, all, and welcome back to The Friendly Film Fan! As we wind down our last days to the Top 10 Movies of 2024, we wanted to take this opportunity to show some love to the films that unfortunately did not make the cut for either the top ten themselves or the Pre-Honorable Mentions list that we do each year. Whether these films just didn’t quite live up to what they could’ve been, or we simply liked some others more, that doesn’t mean that they weren’t worth watching, examining, or spending time with along with everything else; there’s just only so many slots available, and only so many films that have the ability to fill those slots. With that in mind, we’d like to recommend to viewers the films below. You may see some entries on this list that we didn’t initially give positive reviews to, or even some that we’ve not mentioned up to now; those films are on this list due to the artistic merit we still believe they possess, worthy of discussion and examination regardless of whether we liked them or not. We also didn’t include any movies that could be found on other rankings based on titles, so if you don’t see any here you’d swear we liked, check out our Most Underrated list or – in the event you’re reading this later on – our Pre-Honorable Mentions list (Top 5 Scenes & Movie Moments entrants may still be included). In any case, we think all of the films listed are worth at least one watch, even if you never see them again afterwards. We won’t do you the disservice of breaking them all down one by one (that would make this piece excessively long), so in the spirit of brevity with which this list was made, let's get started! Underlined titles will feature links to our full reviews of those titles. Here are our Recommended Movies of 2024!
And those are our recommended movies of 2024! We’ll update the list once or twice as we round out the rest of what we wanted to see for the year (those Oscar shortlists can take a bit to get through), but for now, what do you think of these films? Any we missed that you would have included? Let us know in the comments section below, and thanks for reading!
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by Jacob Thomas Jones Greetings, all! Before we at The Friendly Film Fan get to publishing our final “Best Of” lists for the previous year, we’d like to take a moment to recognize some other quality cinema that released in 2023. For obvious reasons, there were several films we enjoyed that couldn’t quite make the forthcoming Pre-Honorable Mentions list, whether it was due to a deficiency in quality or simple lack of space. To that end, the Recommended Movies list is full of films that – even if we didn’t love them completely – we would recommend people check out. Some entries on this list may have appeared on previous lists such as the Underrated or Surprises lists, whereas others are included due to some reconsideration of more negatively skewed ratings we initially gave them; after all, art is all about constant re-evaluation. (And of course, there’s the classic “I liked it, but not enough” reason.) With all that said, every movie on this list has something to offer the viewer, so if you find yourself browsing with nothing to watch, give one of these a try! Here are our Recommended Movies of 2023.
Did you see any of these films? What did you think of them? What movies would you recommend from this year (even if they didn’t make your “Best Of” list)? Let us know in the comments section below, and thanks for reading!
- The Friendly Film Fan Hello, all, and welcome back to The Friendly Film Fan! As a movie year progresses, we’re all very eager to see what the best films of that year will be, but sometimes movies worth checking out slip through even the Honorable Mentions selections under consideration. The Friendly Film Fan likes to take stock each year and highlight some of those films that, regardless of variance in quality, we think are nonetheless worth checking out. Some of these films may have appeared on other lists (such as the Underrated Films list or the Disappointing Films list), but that doesn’t disqualify them from appearing here if we think they’re worth another look. The only films not listed here are those in consideration for Best of the Year – or just the ones we didn’t like. All that said, there’s still plenty here to see. Here is The Friendly Film Fan’s list of Recommended Movies from 2021.
And those are my recommendations for movies from 2021 that didn’t quite make the cut for “Best Of” consideration (or that I just liked to a certain degree). Which of these are you most eager to check out? Are there any you’ve already seen? Let me know in the comments section below, and thanks for reading!
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