VMA’s Trahan Shares Top 5 Movies of 2024: WBUR

Film critic and Visual & Media Arts affiliated faculty member Erin Trahan wrote about her top 5 films for 2024 on WBUR.

(Trahan did not include the documentary she co-directed that premiered this year, Dukakis: Recipe for Democracy)

Like many folks out there, I thought a lot about politics in 2024. Not just campaigns and elections in the United States, but with those results in, about where the U.S. stands globally. About how governments do and do not reflect the will of the citizens. About how that gap can cause conflict and become the space needed for change. For me, the movies have always played an essential role in puzzling over such questions (and for gawking at gorgeous set design like in Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Room Next Door‘).

Erin Trahan

Read about Trahan’s picks for the top 5 films of this year on WBUR.