‘Good One’, Music Supervised by Taylor Rowley, Makes Best Movies of 2024 Lists

2024 has been an astounding run for the indie feature Good One, music supervised by Taylor Rowley (she/her) and directed by India Donaldson. After several high profile festival premieres and its limited theatrical run across North American via Metrograph, the film has now made the list of Best Movies of 2024 for both Vanity Fair and IndieWire, continuing to receive high critical acclaim:

If one of the hikers in Old Joy brought his teenage daughter along on the trip, it might look something like India Donaldson’s biting little character study. Lily Collias plays a college-bound girl enjoying a camping trip in the Catskills with her dad (James LeGros) and his ne’er-do-well friend (Danny McCarthy). She watches with passive interest as the two old buddies tease and bicker and let the various messes of their lives spill out into what is meant to be an amiable weekend. A frisson of danger gradually enters the picture, but it’s a slight one. Donaldson is not trying to make a heavy drama, nor a thriller. Good One is a pensive and effective mood piece about a liminal time in adolescence, when the adult world begins to reveal itself in all its tricky, complicated dimensions.
—Vanity Fair

A slight but sensitive and fantastically assured debut that unfolds with the pointillistic detail of a great short story, India Donaldson’s ‘Good One’ is a coming-of-age story that jettisons all of the genre’s most familiar trappings in favor of a long walk in the woods.
— IndieWire

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