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Berlin Film Festival 2024: Movie Scorecard
The 74th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival took place February 15-25, 2024, with Lupita Nyong’o overseeing the main competition as Jury President, and Martin Scorsese in attendance to pick up his Honorary Golden Bear. Documentary Dahomey took home the prestigious best film Golden Bear.
With our Berlin 2024 movie scorecard, you can see every film that got enough reviews for a Tomatometer, including opening film Small Things like These (Irish drama, and Cillian Murphy‘s first post-Oppenheimer project), Suspended Time (from Olivier Assayas), Love Lies Bleeding (already picked up by A24 for a March 8th release), and Seven Veils (from Atom Egoyan).
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Adjusted Score: 103297%
Critics Consensus: With a rigorous yet fantastical approach, Mati Diop's Dahomey provocatively uncovers the restitution and repatriation of a stolen legacy, and serves as a powerful statement for decolonization.
Synopsis: From acclaimed filmmaker Mati Diop (Atlantics), DAHOMEY is a poetic and immersive work of art that delves into real perspectives...
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Adjusted Score: 100309%
Critics Consensus: A tender odyssey with Mzia Arabuli's wonderful performance as the audience's guide, Crossing marks another humanist triumph for writer-director Levan Akin.
Synopsis: From acclaimed director Levan Akin (And Then We Danced), CROSSING is a moving and tender tale of identity, acceptance and...
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Adjusted Score: 94797%
Critics Consensus: A squirm-inducing period piece that locates true horror in both mind and spirit, The Devil's Bath might be Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz's most chilling directorial effort yet.
Synopsis: In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon...
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Adjusted Score: 63936%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Fanny, a shy and lonely teenager, goes on a language exchange to Germany. In Leipzig, she meets her pen pal,...
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#7
Adjusted Score: 91125%
Critics Consensus: Immeasurably elevated by the chemistry between Carol Kane and Jason Schwartzman, Between the Temples uses engrossing, character-driven dramedy to explore deeply relatable aspects of the human experience.
Synopsis: In BETWEEN THE TEMPLES, Ben (Jason Schwartzman) is a forty-something cantor losing his voice and possibly his faith. Struggling to...
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#8
Adjusted Score: 94048%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: After the one-child policy ends in China, a middle-class family's fate becomes intertwined with their only son's enigmatic new friend....
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Adjusted Score: 111581%
Critics Consensus: Lust and violence collide to powerfully pulpy effect in Love Lies Bleeding, a well-acted addition to writer-director Rose Glass' growing body of exceptional work.
Synopsis: From Director Rose Glass comes an electric new love story; reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious...
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Adjusted Score: 98685%
Critics Consensus: With a distinctive visual aesthetic that enhances its emotionally resonant narrative, I Saw the TV Glow further establishes writer-director Jane Schoenbrun as a rising talent.
Synopsis: Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a...
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#11
Adjusted Score: 101934%
Critics Consensus: Surreal and unsettling, A Different Man overcomes an occasionally tenuous narrative grasp by virtue of its bold, provocative approach to serious themes.
Synopsis: Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns...
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Adjusted Score: 97429%
Critics Consensus: Cillian Murphy's outstanding acting anchors Small Things Like These, elevating an occasionally enervating historical drama.
Synopsis: Small Things Like These takes place over Christmas in 1985, when devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy)...
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#13
Adjusted Score: 77613%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: La Cocina captures the frenetic energy of the lunch rush at The Grill, a bustling restaurant in Manhattan's Times Square....
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#14
Adjusted Score: 91947%
Critics Consensus: Unfolding at a gentle pace with an even more subdued sense of drama, Janet Planet revolves around Julianne Nicholson and Zoe Ziegler's outstanding performances.
Synopsis: In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the...
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#15
Adjusted Score: 69134%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In the jungle of Colombia, Pepe, a young Hippo was killed. Between sounds and bellows, his ghost narrates his story,...
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#16
Adjusted Score: 56518%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Berlin, 1942: it was the most beautiful summer for Hilde – madly in love with Hans and joyfully pregnant. But...
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#17
Adjusted Score: 81033%
Critics Consensus: For audiences attuned to the Zellners' utterly unique wavelength, Sasquatch Sunset offers a moving -- if often inscrutable -- look at our relationship with the natural world.
Synopsis: In the misty forests of North America, a family of Sasquatches--possibly the last of their enigmatic kind--embark on an absurdist,...
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#18
Adjusted Score: 76023%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Earnest theatre director Jeanine (Amanda Seyfried) has been given the task of remounting her former mentor's most famous work, the...
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#19
Adjusted Score: 90598%
Critics Consensus: Benefiting from Saoirse Ronan's deeply committed performance in the central role, The Outrun proves a moving portrait of addiction in spite of its somewhat shapeless narrative.
Synopsis: Rona, fresh out of rehab, returns to the wild Orkney Islands after more than a decade away. As she reconnects...
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#20
Adjusted Score: 79693%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A comedy of improbable encounters and unlikely language lessons, A Traveler's Needs marks the third collaboration between Hong and Huppert...
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#21
Adjusted Score: 89647%
Critics Consensus: Directed with inventive flair by Tilman Singer while given flavorful personality by stars Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens, Cuckoo is a madcap madhouse horror that's on the right side of deranged.
Synopsis: Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in...
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#22
Adjusted Score: 63722%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Eva, an idealistic prison officer, is faced with the dilemma of her life when a young man from her past...
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#23
Adjusted Score: 58538%
Critics Consensus: Spaceman's poignant themes are partly brought to life by sensitive performances from a talented cast, but it fails to consistently engage with its most interesting ideas.
Synopsis: Six months into a solitary research mission to the edge of the solar system, an astronaut, Jakub (Adam Sandler), realizes...
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#24
Adjusted Score: 63308%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#25
Adjusted Score: 59201%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: April 2020 – Lockdown. Etienne, a film director, and his brother Paul, a music journalist, are confined together in their...
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#26
Adjusted Score: 43957%
Critics Consensus: While Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham provide some affecting moments as a father-daughter pair, Treasure's dramatic riches mostly remain buried.
Synopsis: A father-daughter road trip set in 1990s Poland, TREASURE follows Ruth (Dunham), an American music journalist, and her father, Edek...
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#27
Adjusted Score: 20980%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Aya, a young Ivorian woman in her early thirties, says no on her wedding day, to everyone's astonishment. After emigrating...
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#28
Adjusted Score: 29199%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Sal's empty eyes seem to have been living only on memories since he lost Zoe, the love of his life:...
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