Year-End Lists

IndieWire: Best Movies of 2024, as voted by 177 film critics and journalists, posted at IndieWire alongside lists of best performances, best cinematography, and other superlatives

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1. Anora
   Sean Baker
2. The Brutalist
   Brady Corbet
3. Nickel Boys
   RaMell Ross
4. All We Imagine as Light
   Payal Kapadia
5. Challengers
   Luca Guadagnino
6. I Saw the TV Glow
   Jane Schoenbrun
7. The Substance
   Coralie Fargeat
8. Dune: Part Two
   Denis Villeneuve
9. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
   Radu Jude
10. Hard Truths
    Mike Leigh

Best Documentary

1. No Other Land
   Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
2. Dahomey
   Mati Diop
3. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
   Johan Grimonprez
4. Pictures of Ghosts
   Kleber Mendonça Filho
5. Will & Harper
   Josh Greenbaum
6. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
   Benjamin Ree
7. Black Box Diaries
   Shiori Itō
8. Sugarcane
   Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie
9. Look into My Eyes
   Lana Wilson
10. Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
    Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui

Best International Film

1. All We Imagine as Light
   Payal Kapadia
2. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
   Radu Jude
3. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
   Mohammad Rasoulof
4. Evil Does Not Exist
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
5. The Beast
   Bertrand Bonello
6. Close Your Eyes
   Víctor Erice
7. Flow
   Gints Zilbalodis
8. No Other Land
   Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
9. Emilia Pérez
   Jacques Audiard
10. Kneecap
    Rich Peppiatt
10. Red Rooms
    Pascal Plante

Best First Feature

1. Janet Planet
   Annie Baker
2. Good One
   India Donaldson
3. The People's Joker
   Vera Drew
4. Dìdi
   Sean Wang
4. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
   Phạm Thiên Ân
5. Blink Twice
   Zoë Kravitz