Best CDs of 2024


1. The Cure "Songs Of A Lost World"
2. Laurie Anderson "Amelia"
3. Chapelle Roan "The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess"
4. Andy Partridge and Chris Braide "Queen Of The Planet Wow!"
5. Ben Folds "Sleigher"
6. The The "Ensoulment"
7. Soundtrack "Stereophonic"
8. Geordie Greep "The New Sound"
? 9. Baring All "There Goes My Compass"
10. Confidence Man "3AM (LA LA LA)"
11. John David "JINX"
? 12. X "Smoke & Fiction"
? 13. Boeckner "Boeckner!"
? 14. John Grant "The Art of the Lie"
? 15. Richard Thompson "Ship To Shore"
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Beth Gibbons "Lives Outgrown"
Bilie Eilish "Hit Me Hard And Soft"
Bleachers "Bleachers"
Bright Light Bright Light "Enjoy Youth"
* Charli XCX "Brat"
Cloud Nothings "Final Summer"
Crowded House "Gravity Stairs"
* Elbow "Audio Vertigo"
Field Music "Limits of Language"
Fontaines D.C. "Romance"
* Godspeed You! Black Emperor "NO TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD"
IDLES "Tangk"
** Jack White "No Name"
Kaiser Chiefs "Kaiser Chiefs' Easy Eighth Album"
Linda Thompson "Proxy Music"
Oso Oso "Life Till Bones"
Pet Shop Boys "Nonetheless"
Phosphorescent "Revelator"
Robyn Hitchcock "1967"
* The Smile "Wall Of Eyes"/ "Cutouts"
Sasha Alex Sloan "Me Again"
SAULT "Acts of Faith"
* St. Vincent "All Born Screaming"
* The Decemberists "As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again"
* The Smile "Cutouts"
The Vaccines "Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations"
* Tim Minchin "Apart Together"
Vampire Weekend "Only God Was Above Us"
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Best Techno CDs of 2024


1. SOPHIE "SOPHIE"
2. Two Shell "--" and "░█░ ▀▄▀▄▀ █▄█   ▄█ █▀█ ██▄ █▄▄ █▄▄" and "::: LDN SPAWN POINT :::"
3. Beak "Beak>>>>"
4. Underworld "Strawberry Hotel"
5. Four Tet "Three +"
Floating Points "Cascade"
Actress "Statik"
Burial "Dreamfear/Boy Sent From Above"
Jlin "Akoma"
Justice "Hyperdrama"
Joe Goddard "Harmonics"
Max Richter "In A Landscape"
Olof Dreijer "Coral"
Squarepusher "Dostrotime"
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Best CD Reissues of 2024


1. The dB's "Stands For Decibels"
2. Dry Cleaning "Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks", "Swampy", and "Sweet Princess"
3. Patrick Cowley "From Behind"
4. Howard Jones "Dream Into Action" and "Human's Lib"
5. John Oswald "evolver"/ "plexures"
The Might Be Giants "Beast Of Horns"
The Waterboys "1985"
Kissing The Pink "Anthology 1982-2024"
Portishead "Roseland NYC Live 25"
The Residents "Secret Show (Live In San Francisco)"
Bronski Beat "The Age Of Consent" (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Prince "Diamonds + Pearls"
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Worst CDs of 2024


1. Lindsey Buckingham "Rarites"
2. Beyoncé "Cowboy Carter"
3. Kanye West "Vultures 1"/ "Vultures 2"
The Avett Brothers "The Avett Brothers"
Bonny Light Horseman "Keep Me on Your Mind/See You Free"
Green Day "Saviors"
The Killer "Rebel Diamonds"
Pearl Jam "Dark Matter"
Taylor Swift "The Tortured Poets Department"
The Alan Parsons Project "Pyramid"
The Dare "What's Wrong With New York?"
Chrystabell & David Lynch "Cellophane Memories"
Coldplay "Moon Music"
The Orb "Orboretum: The Orb Collection" David Gilmour "Luck And Strange"
Orville Peck "Stampede"
Tears For Fears "Songs For A Nervous Planet"
Thom Yorke "Confidenza" (Soundtrack)
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Best CD Cover of 2024


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Vampire Weekend "Only God Was Above Us"
St. Vincent "All Born Screaming"
Bill Ryder-Jones "Iechyd Da"
Cabizbajo "Loved Alone"
Gastr Del Sol "We Have Dozens Of Titles"
Post Malone "F-1 Trillion"
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Worst CD Cover of 2024


Adult Jazz "Suffer One"
Maynard James Keenan "Cinquanta: A 50th Birthday Celebration"
El Perro del Mar "Big Anonymous"
Rosali "Bite Down"
Daryl Hall "D"
Gouge Away "Deep Sage"
Charli XCX "Brat"
Lip Critic "Hex Dealer"
Fontaines D.C. "Romance"
Cash Cobain "Play Cash Cobain"
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Ten Best Movies of 2024


1. Hundreds of Beavers
2. All Of Us Strangers
3. Flipside
4. Casa Bonita Mi Amor!
5. Late Night with the Devil
She Is Conann
Landscape With Invisible Hand
There's Something In The Barn
Civil War
In A Violent Nature
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
The Bikeriders
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Good Movies From Last Year I Finally Saw This Year
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Blackberry
Chicken Run: Rise Of The Nugget
Dumb Money
Anatomy of A Fall

Worst Movies of 2024


1. Fly Me To The Moon
2. Twisters
3. The Fall Guy
4. Rumours
5. The Watchers
Megalopolis
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Movies From 2024 Still To See
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A Different Man
Alien: Romulus
** Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
? Between The Temples
Borderlands
? Blink Twice
? Close To You
Cuckoo
** Deadpool & Wolverine
Desire Lines
* Despicable Me 4
Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World
Freaky Tales
H4z4rd (Hazard)
Handling The Undead
His Three Daughters
It's What's Inside
Joker: Folie à Deux
Kill
Kinds Of Kindness
Krazy House
The Last Stop in Yuma County
Last Stop Larrimah
Love Machina
Love Me
* Maxxxine
My Old Ass
Passages
Party Down
? Poolman
Presence
? Sebastian
Smile 2
Speak No Evil
The Animal Kingdom
The Beast
The Eight Mountains
The First Omen
** The Lost King
** The Old Oak
The Moogai
The Promised Land
* The Substance
? Thelma
? Trap
Unfriended: Dark Web
Your Monster
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Movies From 2023 Still To See
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All The Beauty And The Bloodshed
Blue Beetle
Blue Jean
Cash Cow
Cassandro
Chicken For Linda!
Divinity
Emily The Criminal
Empire Of Light
Enys Men
Flora And Son
Fracture
Honor Society
How To Blow Up A Pipeline
How To Have Sex
I Want You Back
JUNG_E
Kokomo City
Kimi
Last Stop Larrimah
Maestro
Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros
Napoleon
Occupied City (Steve McQueen)
* Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre
Orlando, My Political Biography
Our Body
Passages
Plane
Polite Society
Queendom
R.M.N.
Ribaa (River)
Rotting In The Sun
Rye Lane
* Scrapper
** Sharper
Shazam: Fury of the Gods
Shin Kamen Rider
Showing Up
Sick
Tetris
The Adults
The Beasts
* The Civil Dead
The Delinquents
The Disappearance of Shere Hite
** The Eight Mountains
The Incal
The Killer
The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
The Old Way
The Origin Of Evil
The Outfit
The Outwaters
They Wait In The Dark
Vacation
When Evil Lurks
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Movies From 2022 Still To See
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A Hero
? Aftersun
? All The Beauty And The Bloodshed
Ambulance
Baby Assassins
Better Nate Than Ever
Bones & All
Cha Cha Real Smooth
Chariot
Donbass
Down With The King
Dual
Emily the Criminal
* EO
Fire Of Love
Good Luck To You, Leo Grande
Great Freedom
Hellbender
Hit The Road
Hustle
I Want You Back
I Was A Simple Man
Inspector Ike
Jujutsu Kaisen O
Kimi
Lost Illusions
Meet Me In the Bathroom
Mr. Bachmann And His Class
Neptune Frost
No Bears
On The Count Of Three
One Fine Morning
(Disney's) Pinocchio
Prey
Resurrection
Saint Omer
Sundown
The Adam Project
The Good House
? The Good Nurse
The House
The Long Walk
There There
Thirteen Lives
? To Leslie
You Won't Be Alone
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Movies From 2021 Still To See
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A Hero
About Endlessness
Akilla's Escape
* Apples
** Annette
* Arrebato (Rapture)
Azor
Baby Done
Beginning
Benedetta
* Bergman Island
Black Window
Boys From County Hell
Bring Your Own Brigade
* CODA
Coming Home In The Dark
Concrete Cowboy
Days
Days Of The Bagnold Summer
Deep Water
Dream Horse
? Earwig and the Witch
El Planeta
Eternals
Faya Dayi
Fever Dream
Finch
Flashback
* French Exit
Genus Pan
Gunda
Her Socialist Smile
Hester Street
Holler
Hope
I Carry You With Me
Identifying Features
I'm Your Man
In the Earth
In the Same Breath
Jacob's Wife
* Joy Ride
Julia
** Keep An Eye Out
King Richard
Knocking
Labyrinth of Cinema
Limbo
Locked Down
Mandabi
Martyrs Lane
Mass
MLK/FBI
* Moffie
Mogul Mowgli
My Darling Supermarket
My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To
My Name is Pauley Murray
My Salinger Year
Never Gonna Snow Again
New Order
* No Sudden Move
Not A Ordinary Man
Only The Animals
Palmer
Paper Spiders
Passing
* Petite Maman
Pixie
Plan B
Prayers for the Stolen
* Preparations To Be Together For An Unknown Period Of Time
Prisoners of the Ghostland
PVT Chat
Quo Vadis, Aida?
* Riders of Justice
Roadrunner
* Ron's Gone Wrong
Saint Maud
* Slaxx
Slow Machine
Small Engine Repair
Soggy Bottom
Solitary
Some Kind of Heaven
Space Sweepers
Spencer
Spies In Disguise
Spoor
Spring Blossom
State Funeral
Stray
Summer Of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Test Pattern
The Addams Family 2
The Beatles: Get Back
The Boy Behind The Door
The Deep Ones
The Dig
The Delivered
The Disciple
* The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
The First Wave
The Hand Of God
The Harder They Fall
* The Human Voice
The Killing Of Two Lovers
The Lost Daughter
The Many Saints of Newark
The Map Of Tiny Perfect Things
The Mighty Orphans
The Most Beautiful Boy In The World
The Night
The Night House
The Novice
The Oak Room
The Power Of Kangwon Province
The Reason I Jump
The Rescue
* The Souvenir Part II
* The Spine Of Night
The Story of a Three Day Pass
* The Tender Bar
The Tragedy of Macbeth
* The Truffle Hunters
The Velvet Underground
The Viewing Booth
The Woman Who Ran
* The World To Come
There Is No Evil
This Is Not A Burial, It's A Resurrection
Two Of Us
Undine
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
Vicious Fun
Violation
Voyagers
Werewolves Within
What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?
Wildfire
Wildland
Zola
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Movies From 2020 Still To See
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A White White Day
Alone
And Then We Danced
Ask Any Buddy
Bacurau
Bad Boys For Life
Beanpole
Better Days
BIOS
Blood Quantum
Blow The Man Down
Bull
Capone
City Hall
Coastal Elites
? Collective (Colectiv)
Crip Camp
Escape From Pretoria
Exit Plan
Fourteen
Greyhound
Gunda
His House
House of Munningbird
I was At Home, But
I’m No Longer Here (Ya No Estoy Aquí)
I'm Your Woman
In My Blood It Runs
Koko-di Koko-da
Liberté
Lingua Franca
Lovers Rock
Lupin III The First
Mangrove
Martin Eden
Merveilles à Montfermeil
Miss Juneteenth
* My Octopus Teacher
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
No Time To Die
On The Rocks
Over the Moon
Pieces of a Woman
Possum
Quo Vadis, Aida?
Red, White, and Blue
Relic
Scare Me
Sonic the Hedgehog
Superintelligence
Swallow
* Tesla
The Assistant
The Invisible Man
The Nest
The 40-Year-Old Version
The August Virgin
The Climb
The Dark and the Wicked
The Grand Bizarre
The Half Of It
The Invisible Man
The Jesus Rolls
The Life Ahead
The Man Who Sold His Skin
The Midnight Sky
The Mortuary Collection
The Nest
The One and Only Ivan
The Painted Bird
The Personal History of David Copperfield
The Photograph
The Plagiarists
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
The Whistlers
The White Tiger
The Wild Goose Lake
Tigertale
Time
Vitalina Varela
* Welcome to Chechnya
Zombi Child
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Movies From 2019 Still To See
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A Hidden Life
Amazing Grace
An Elephant Sitting Still
Apollo 11
Asako I & II
At Eternity's Gate
Atlantics
** Bait
Black Mother
Christopher Robin
Clemency
Cold War
Columbus
Dark Waters
Diane
Dolemite Is My Name
Elle
Family
Fast Color
First Man
Force Majeure
Giant Little Ones
Gloria Bell
High Flying Bird
Honey Boy
Horror Noire
Hotel By The River
In My Room
Jawline
Knock Down the House
La Flor
Late Nite
Long Shot
Love, Antosha
Luce
Mary Queen Of Scots
Meeting Gorbachev
Never Look Away
Nightmare Cinema
Non-Fiction
One Child Nation
One Cut of the Dead
Our Time
Paddleton
Pet Sematary
Peterloo
Phoenix
Plus One
Ray & Liz
Rodents of Unusual Size
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story By Martin Scorsese
Sauvage/Wild
Shadow
Smallfoot
Son of Saul
Sorry Angel
Support The Girls
Synonyms
The Aeronauts
The Brink
The Edge of Democracy
The Ground Beneath My Feet
The Hole In The Ground
The Image Book
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
The Load
The Nightingale
The Mustang
The Peanut Butter Falcon
The Perfection
The Souvenir
The Tale
The Wind
Three Faces
Tigers Are Not Afraid
Transit
Wild Nights With Emily
Wine Country
Wonder Park
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Movies From 2018 Still To See
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24 Frames
10.31
1985
A Bread Factory
A Prayer Before Dawn
At Eternity's Gate American Animals
Anti Matter
Battle of the Sexes
Before We Vanish
Bisbee ’17
Blaze
Boy Erased
Burning
Cold War
Damsel
Disobedience
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot
Early Man
Final Portrait
First Man
Flatliners
Gemini
Goodbye Christopher Robin
Jigsaw
Kusama: Infinity
Leave No Trace
Let The Corpses Tan
Lizzie
Madeline’s Madeline
Mid90s
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Mom and Dad
Monrovia, Indiana
Private Life
Revenge
Robin Hood
Science Fair
Scotty And The Secret History Of Hollywood
Support The Girls
The Cakemaker
The Commuter
The Age Of Adaline
The Favorite
The Gospel According To Andre
The Grinch
The Hate U Give
The Little Stranger
The Old Man & The Gun
The Other Side Of The Wind
The Rider
The Ritual
The Seagull
The Tale
The Wife
They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead
Thoroughbreds
Tully
Unsane
Upgrade
Western
Westwood
What Keeps You Alive
White Fang
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Movies From 2017 Still To See
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4 Days in France
A Dark Song
A Fantastic Woman
After The Storm
A Graduation
Alien: Covenant
All These Sleepless Nights
A Woman, A Part
Battle Of The Sexes
Beatriz At Dinner
Bones Of Contention
Brad's Status
Brimstone & Glory
By The Time It Gets Dark
Chevela
Christopher Robin
City of Ghosts
Columbus
Darkest Hour
Dawson City: Frozen Time
Detroit
Dina
Donald Cried
Downsizing
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
Félicité
First They Killed My Father
Five Came Back
Frantz
Fraud
Free Fire
Gook
Handsome Devil
Happy End
Hazlo Como Hombre
Hissen Habré: A Chadian Tragedy
Hostiles
Hounds of Love
I Called Him Morgan
I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore
I Hate Myself :.)
I, Tonya
Icaros: A Vision
Icarus
In The Fade
Jane
Kuso
Lady Macbeth
Landline
Lemon
Lost In Paris
Loveless
Lucky
Menashe
Molly's Game
Mudbound
My Cousin Rachel
My Friend Dahmer
My Happy Family
No Dress Code Required
Obit
Oklahoma City
On The Beach At Night Alone
Paris 5:59: Theo And Hugo
Pottersville
Princess Cyd
Rat Film
Raw
Rememory
Sierra Nevada
Silence
Song To Song
Starless Dreams
Staying Vertical
Step
Strange Weather
Strong Island
Super Dark Times
The Bad Batch
The Ballad of Lefty Brown
The Beautiful Fantastic The Blackcoat's Daughter
The Dark Tower
The Death and Life of Martha P. Johnson
The Death of Louis XIV
The Great Wall
The Hero
The Light Of The Moon
The Lovers
The Lure
The Ornithologist
The Woman Who Left
The Work
The Wound
The Zookeeper's Wife
To The Bone
Tramps
War for the Planet of the Apes
Whose Streets?
Wind River
Wonder
Wormwood
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Movies From 2016 Still To See
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13th
A Bigger Splash
A United Kingdom
Always Shine
American Honey
Aquarius
Cameraperson
Certain Women
Christine (2016)
Chronic
De Palma
Dheepan
Dog Eat Dog
Don't Breathe
Embrace of the Serpent
Evolution
Fire At Sea
Fort Buchanan
From Afar
Hacksaw Ridge
Happy Hour
I, Daniel Blake
Indignation
Jackie
Julieta
Kate Plays Christine
Knight of Cups
Krisha
Lemonade
Like Cattle Towards Glow
Little Sister
Men Go to Battle
Mia Madre
Michael Moore in TrumpLand
Mountains May Depart
Mustang
Nedura
Neither Heaven Nor Earth
No Home Movie
Notes on Blindness
O.J.: Made In America
Our Little Sister
Remember
Right Now, Wrong Then
Son of Saul
Southside with You
Summertime
Sunset Song
Tale of Tales
The Autopsy Of Jane Doe
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years
The Childhood of a Leader
The Clan
The Eagle Huntress
The Eyes of My Mother
The Fits
The Light Between Oceans
The Treasure
The Witness
Things To Come
Tower
Under the Shadow
Viktoria
Wiener-Dog
Weiner
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Movies From 2015 Still To See
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'71
About Elly
Actress
Adult Beginners
Amour Fou
Appoaching The Elephant
Appropriate Behavior
Arabian Nights
Bird People
Butter On The Latch
By The Sea
Cartel Land
Chi-Raq
Class Enemy
Closed Curtain
Clouds of Sils Maria
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
Digging For Fire
Dormant Beauty
Eastern Boys
Evolution of a Criminal
Fading Gigalo
Far From Men
Faults
Field Niggas
Fifi Howls From Happiness
Force Majeure
Get On Up
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Girlhood
God Help The Girl
Happy Christmas
Heaven Knows What
Hide Your Smiling Faces
Horse Money
Hungry Hearts
Hyena
In Bloom
In The Name Of My Daughter
It Felt Like Love
Jauja
Jealousy
Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian
Kumiko the Treasure Hunter
La Sapienza
Life of Riley
Li'l Quinquin
Listen To Me Marlon
Listen Up Philip
Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles
Love and Mercy
Manakamana
Maps To The Stars
Marvin Seth and Stanley
Me And Earl And The Dying Girl
Memphis
Moebius
Mustang
National Gallery
Ned Rifle
Night Moves
Non-stop
Of Men And War
Office
One Day Pina Asked...
Out 1: Noli Me Tangere
Overnight
Palo Alto
Phoenix
Queen of Earth
Respire (Breathe)
Results
Revenge Of The Mekons, Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets
Seymour: An Introduction
Sixty Six
Slow West
Soft in the Head
Spring
Stinking Heaven
Stray Dogs
Story of My Death
Taxi
Testament Of Youth
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
The Club
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
The Fool
The Great Man
The Homesman
The Immigrant
The Interview
The Last of the Unjust
The Missing Picture
The Princess of France
The Salt of the Earth
The Second Mother
The Unknown Known
The Voices
Thou Wast Mild and Lovely
Timbuktu
Tip Top
Truth
Tu Dors Nicole
Two Days, One Night
Uncertain Terms
Victoria
War Of Lies
Welcome To New York
What Happened, Miss Simone?
What Now? Remind Me
White God
Wild Canaries
Wild Tales
Winter Sleep
Young Bodies Heal Quickly
Zero Motivation
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Movies From 2014 Still To See
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Bullhead
A Coffee In Berlin
Decimates
The Final Member
God's Pocket
Ida
Lucky Them
Manakamana
A Master Builder
The Missing Picture
Mistaken For Strangers
Mood Indigo
Policeman
Proxy
Starred Up
Stray Dogs
This Is Where I Leave You
To Be Takai
Tom At The Farm
Wish I was Here
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Movies From 2013 Still To See
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A Touch Of Sin
After Tiller
All is Lost
At Berkeley
Beyond The Hills
Caesar Must Die
Dirty Wars
First Cousin Once Removed
Fruitvale Station
Out Of The Furnace
Something In The Air
Stories We Tell
The Canyons
The Great Beauty
The Past
The To Do List

Best Videogames of 2023


Duolingo
Slay the Princess
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The Invincible (mystery)
Somerville (Limbo)
Little Devil Inside (upernatural RPG)
Oxenfree II: Lost Signals
Slime Rancher 2
Dead Space Remake
Heaven's Vault
A Short Hike
Wilmot's Warehouse
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