Hello, my name's Justin the Kluid, I'm here today with

Well Sloan, and you're listening to The Important Cinema Club, and it's the yearly event

to start off a new, terrible-looking year.

We're talking about our five favorite movies, the best movies, Will.

So in many previous years, we used to do a top ten list and we used to do a countdown,

you know, 10, 9, 8, all that. And last year we hit upon, I think, a much better new formula,

where we say five movies from the year that we liked. They don't even

have to be the five best, just five movies that we really like that stuck with us, as well as our

five favorite or five of our favorite discoveries from last year, movies that we saw for the first

time. But I'm still going to put the best movies in the title of this episode because people click on that.

So if we fooled you, just keep listening.

You already hit play.

Why not just learn about what our five favorite films are?

That's right.

So do you want to start it right off the bat, Will?

How about we, like, move between both of them?

Let's each start with a movie that came out this year, because people

want to know if we have the correct taste, and then after we both say one, then we can move

on to discoveries, then new movie, then discoveries. We will get lost, I'm sure, but just to shake

things up a little bit. I think that's a great idea. And before we start, can I ask, what was your

impression of the last year in film? Do you have any overwhelming takeaways? Do you think it was a good year, a bad year? Well, you'll have to wait for my five to 10,000 word essay that I write every year about the state of the film industry. No, I don't know. I didn't really think too hard about it, but I'm sure you have, so what do you think, Will? No, I was hoping that you would thought about it. Um, no, I guess. I mean, there was a lot of good movies that came out this year. Like, making a top 10 list, it wasn't like last year where I struggled to just even get five that I really enjoyed. There were a lot of good movies. As usual. Many of the best movies were ones that, you know, weren't the most

popular movies. Sorry, that's such a banal thing to say, but it happens to be true and it's evergreen

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