Hello everyone! Apologies for a late Pits, but I was busy this weekend and wanted to post on Monday morning! The thing about movies is that they remain good. For me, making a top 10 list- or even a top 25 list for my own personal writing- was incredibly hard this year: there were so many good films to shout out, and balancing what I felt needed to be appreciated was super difficult. Plus, I got to reconsider my best films of 2023 for our retrospective ballot!

What makes this year so exciting for me is the diversity of candidates. Last year, Oppenheimer barely squeaked out a victory over Barbie and Spider-Verse, but those were 3 unifying consensus hits everyone agreed was great. To me, it feels like the race between many movies is much closer this year and I am excited to see what comes up. Just a reminder, we are awarding the Best Films of 2024 and the Best Films of 2023 (retrospective!)

Here are THE RULES. There are not very many.
1. please list your best films of 2024 and your best films of 2023 in joint or separate comments. little blurbs if you want are always welcomed but not required! (I have written blurbs.) Best film gets 10 points, second best gets 9, and so on… you do not have to have a full 10, but if you don’t make a number order I won’t know how to allocate points, so please do! honorable mentions are also welcomed.
2. voting closes December 28 at noon EST. Feel free to edit your post as many times as you need until then: Babygirl and Nosferatu come out in the next two weeks, so my list might be significantly shaken up. I will upvote your post once I count the vote, and I won’t upvote it until the 28th.
4. discussion is encouraged of course but please refrain from openly criticizing other people’s picks, this is the space to talk about stuff you liked and not stuff you didn’t like! Similarly, please feel free to talk about performances, music, production design, etc that you loved
5. have fun out there
6. you must not stay in your new body for longer than 7 days while on The Substance