Year-End Lists

Paste Magazine: The 50 Best Movies of 2024

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2018 • 2017 • 2015]

1. The Brutalist
   Brady Corbet
2. All We Imagine as Light
   Payal Kapadia
3. Hard Truths
   Mike Leigh
4. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
   Radu Jude
5. Anora
   Sean Baker
6. Challengers
   Luca Guadagnino
7. Hundreds of Beavers
   Mike Cheslik
8. Nickel Boys
   RaMell Ross
9. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
   George Miller
10. Inshallah a Boy
    Amjad Al Rasheed
11. Terrestrial Verses
    Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami
12. The Substance
    Coralie Fargeat
13. Apolonia, Apolonia
    Lea Glob
14. Daughters
    Natalie Rae and Angela Patton
15. No Other Land
    Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
16. Red Rooms
    Pascal Plante
17. Janet Planet
    Annie Baker
18. Exhuma
    Jang Jae-hyun
19. Dahomey
    Mati Diop
20. A Different Man
    Aaron Schimberg
21. Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
    Tyler Thomas Taormina
22. The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
    Joanna Arnow
23. The Beast
    Bertrand Bonello
24. Rebel Ridge
    Jeremy Saulnier
25. The Piano Lesson
    Malcolm Washington
26. Love Lies Bleeding
    Rose Glass
27. Last Summer
    Catherine Breillat
28. Meanwhile on Earth
    Jérémy Clapin
29. Longlegs
    Osgood Perkins
30. Green Border
    Agnieszka Holland
31. Nosferatu
    Robert Eggers
32. Sing Sing
    Greg Kwedar
33. Bird
    Andrea Arnold
34. Flow
    Gints Zilbalodis
35. Dune: Part Two
    Denis Villeneuve
36. The Girl with the Needle
    Magnus von Horn
37. Chronicles of a Wandering Saint
    Tomás Gómez Bustillo
38. Close Your Eyes
    Víctor Erice
39. A Traveler's Needs
    Hong Sang-soo
40. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
    Phạm Thiên Ân
41. The People's Joker
    Vera Drew
42. Ghostlight
    Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson
43. Io capitano
    Matteo Garrone
44. By the Stream
    Hong Sang-soo
45. Evil Does Not Exist
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
46. Small Things like These
    Tim Mielants
47. Thelma
    Josh Margolin
48. National Anthem
    Luke Gilford
49. Wicked
    Jon M. Chu
50. The Promised Land
    Nikolaj Arcel