Year-End Lists

Max Cea: The 60 Best Movies of 2024, as published by Esquire

1. La chimera
   Alice Rohrwacher
2. Nickel Boys
   RaMell Ross
3. Last Summer
   Catherine Breillat
4. I Saw the TV Glow
   Jane Schoenbrun
5. The Brutalist
   Brady Corbet
6. The Taste of Things
   Trần Anh Hùng
7. Challengers
   Luca Guadagnino
8. Here
   Bas Devos
9. Janet Planet
   Annie Baker
10. Evil Does Not Exist
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
11. Nosferatu
    Robert Eggers
12. Anora
    Sean Baker
13. All We Imagine as Light
    Payal Kapadia
14. No Other Land
    Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
15. The Beast
    Bertrand Bonello
16. Sing Sing
    Greg Kwedar
17. Daughters
    Natalie Rae and Angela Patton
18. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
    Radu Jude
19. Good One
    India Donaldson
20. Between the Temples
    Nathan Silver
21. My First Film
    Zia Anger
22. Rap World
    Conner O’Malley & Danny Scharar
23. Dahomey
    Mati Diop
24. A Different Man
    Aaron Schimberg
25. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    George Miller
26. Perfect Days
    Wim Wenders
27. The Front Room
    Max Eggers & Sam Eggers
28. The Fire Inside
    Rachel Morrison
29. Red Rooms
    Pascal Plante
30. Love Lies Bleeding
    Rose Glass
31. Dune: Part Two
    Denis Villeneuve
32. Gasoline Rainbow
    Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
33. Thelma
    Josh Margolin
34. The Promised Land
    Nikolaj Arcel
35. The People's Joker
    Vera Drew
36. Trap
    M. Night Shyamalan
37. Spermworld
    Lance Oppenheim
38. Dìdi
    Sean Wang
39. Union
    Brett Story and Stephen Maing
40. The Settlers
    Felipe Gálvez Haberle
41. Will & Harper
    Josh Greenbaum
42. Conclave
    Edward Berger
43. Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus
    Neo Sora
44. Juror #2
    Clint Eastwood
45. Hit Man
    Richard Linklater
46. A Real Pain
    Jesse Eisenberg
47. Green Border
    Agnieszka Holland
48. It's Not Me
    Leos Carax
49. Occupied City
    Steve McQueen
50. Pictures of Ghosts
    Kleber Mendonça Filho
51. His Three Daughters
    Azazel Jacobs
52. Longlegs
    Osgood Perkins
53. Tótem
    Lila Avilés
54. This Closeness
    Kit Zauhar
55. Rebel Ridge
    Jeremy Saulnier
56. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
    Benjamin Ree
57. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
    Phạm Thiên Ân
58. Exhibiting Forgiveness
    Titus Kaphar
59. Apolonia, Apolonia
    Lea Glob
60. Family Portrait
    Lucy Kerr