Year-End Lists

Justin Chang: The Best Films of 2024. Click through to the New Yorker to see how he has — with one exception — paired each film with another.

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Close Your Eyes
   Víctor Erice
2. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
   Radu Jude
3. Evil Does Not Exist
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
4. Nickel Boys
   RaMell Ross
5. A Different Man
   Aaron Schimberg
6. La chimera
   Alice Rohrwacher
7. Music
   Angela Schanelec
8. No Other Land
   Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
9. Green Border
   Agnieszka Holland
10. All We Imagine as Light
    Payal Kapadia
11. Hard Truths
    Mike Leigh

Nine honorable mentions, in alphabetical order

• Anora
  Sean Baker
• Blitz
  Steve McQueen
• The Brutalist
  Brady Corbet
• Dahomey
  Mati Diop
• Here
  Bas Devos
• Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
  Phạm Thiên Ân
• Janet Planet
  Annie Baker
• Megalopolis
  Francis Ford Coppola
• A Real Pain
  Jesse Eisenberg