#A24 FILMS MOVIE#
In 2015, A24 reinvented the western with "Slow West," made Brie Larson a movie star with the heart rending "Room" and produced my favorite horror thriller of the new century with "Green Room." These movies all have nothing in common except for a strong, singular vision and an ability to absolutely transport the viewer out of their own lives.
As of 2019, the company has been nominated for 25 Academy Awards, winning six. For the purposes of this article, I watched all 97, ranking them all from best to worst.Īmazingly, the worst movie A24 has put out was also the first movie they put out: an amateurish and sloppy "reimagining" of Fellini's "8 1/2" starring Charlie Sheen and Bill Murray called "A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III." Instantly forgotten, it was a few months later that A24 had its first hit with the Harmony Korine banger, "Spring Breakers." After that, they were off to the races.
Of those 97, all but two are currently available to stream, with the two outliers available for purchase on VOD. As soon as I knew I wanted to write about A24, I did a deep dive into its catalogue and watched as many of the films as possible to see if the name really was a banner of quality.Īs of this writing, A24 has 97 films currently available to watch, with a further 14 either in production or ready to be released when theaters start to reopen. Disney used to curate its projects more carefully, as did Pixar, but I'm not sure if there's been a company with more consistently quality output than A24 Films out of New York.įounded in 2012 and named after the A24 motorway in Italy (the backdrop of several neorealist classics itself), the company has film distribution and production down to a science.
I watch so many movies for work and for pleasure that recently I was trying to think if there was any production company or studio that guaranteed that kind of quality just by their involvement in the creative process. A24 Films presents masterpieces such as "Moonlight," "Room" and "The Florida Project" consistently.