Year-End Lists

Keith Phipps: The Best Films of 2024, as posted at The Reveal where it appears alongside fun selections like "Reason for Hope," "Reason for Despair," and "Most Anticipated Film" of next year

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2014 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Nickel Boys
   RaMell Ross
2. The Brutalist
   Brady Corbet
3. Anora
   Sean Baker
4. Close Your Eyes
   Víctor Erice
5. Good One
   India Donaldson
6. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
   Radu Jude
7. Between the Temples
   Nathan Silver
8. Nosferatu
   Robert Eggers
9. I Saw the TV Glow
   Jane Schoenbrun
10. Daughters
    Natalie Rae and Angela Patton
11. All We Imagine as Light
    Payal Kapadia
12. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    George Miller
13. Hard Truths
    Mike Leigh
14. Janet Planet
    Annie Baker
15. Evil Does Not Exist
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Honorable Mentions (in no particular order)

• Dune: Part Two
  Denis Villeneuve
• Challengers
  Luca Guadagnino
• The Beast
  Bertrand Bonello
• A Real Pain
  Jesse Eisenberg
• The Substance
  Coralie Fargeat
• Sing Sing
  Greg Kwedar
• Ghostlight
  Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson
• Blitz
  Steve McQueen
• My Old Ass
  Megan Park
• The Wild Robot
  Chris Sanders
• Babygirl
  Halina Reijn
• Rebel Ridge
  Jeremy Saulnier
• Juror #2
  Clint Eastwood
• September 5
  Tim Fehlbaum
• Queer
  Luca Guadagnino
• Love Lies Bleeding
  Rose Glass
• The Fall Guy
  David Leitch
• Civil War
  Alex Garland
• Heretic
  Scott Beck and Bryan Woods
• Red Rooms
  Pascal Plante
• A Quiet Place: Day One
  Michael Sarnoski
• Girls State
  Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine
• Hit Man
  Richard Linklater
• How to Have Sex
  Molly Manning Walker
• The First Omen
  Arkasha Stevenson
• Cuckoo
  Tilman Singer
• Longlegs
  Osgood Perkins
• Girls Will Be Girls
  Shuchi Talati

Bonus mentions (2023 films with proper 2024 release)

• La chimera
  Alice Rohrwacher
• Perfect Days
  Wim Wenders