Year-End Lists

In Review Online: Best Films of 2024

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012]

1. The Beast
   Bertrand Bonello
2. Evil Does Not Exist
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
3. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
   Radu Jude
4. Challengers
   Luca Guadagnino
5. Close Your Eyes
   Víctor Erice
6. Chime
   Kiyoshi Kurosawa
7. Megalopolis
   Francis Ford Coppola
8. Juror #2
   Clint Eastwood
9. Janet Planet
   Annie Baker
10. Trap
    M. Night Shyamalan
11. Last Summer
    Catherine Breillat
12. I Saw the TV Glow
    Jane Schoenbrun
13. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    George Miller
14. Coma
    Bertrand Bonello
15. Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
    Soi Cheang
16. Aggro Dr1ft
    Harmony Korine
17. Anora
    Sean Baker
18. Nickel Boys
    RaMell Ross
19. Music
    Angela Schanelec
20. The Brutalist
    Brady Corbet
21. A Traveler's Needs
    Hong Sang-soo
22. All We Imagine as Light
    Payal Kapadia
23. Here
    Robert Zemeckis
24. Hard Truths
    Mike Leigh
25. The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
    Joanna Arnow
26. It's Not Me
    Leos Carax
27. Red Rooms
    Pascal Plante
28. The Human Surge 3
    Eduardo Williams
29. No Other Land
    Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
30. Eureka
    Lisandro Alonso
31. The Shadowless Tower
    Zhang Lü
32. Queer
    Luca Guadagnino
33. Dahomey
    Mati Diop
34. Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
    Tyler Thomas Taormina
35. Hundreds of Beavers
    Mike Cheslik
36. Here
    Bas Devos
37. Good One
    India Donaldson
38. A Different Man
    Aaron Schimberg
39. Youth (Homecoming)
    Wang Bing
40. Merry Christmas
    Sriram Raghavan
41. Rebel Ridge
    Jeremy Saulnier
42. Fairytale
    Aleksandr Sokurov
43. Dune: Part Two
    Denis Villeneuve
44. Rap World
    Conner O’Malley & Danny Scharar
45. REFORM!
    Jon Bois
46. In Our Day
    Hong Sang-soo
47. Flow
    Gints Zilbalodis
48. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
    Johan Grimonprez
49. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
    Kevin Costner
50. The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel
    Jenny Nicholson