Year-End Lists

Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2024, a poll of contributors

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. All We Imagine as Light
   Payal Kapadia
2. Anora
   Sean Baker
3. La chimera
   Alice Rohrwacher
4. Dahomey
   Mati Diop
5. Hard Truths
   Mike Leigh
6. Caught by the Tides
   Jia Zhang-ke
7. The Substance
   Coralie Fargeat
7. Love Lies Bleeding
   Rose Glass
9. No Other Land
   Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
10. Nickel Boys
    RaMell Ross
11. I Saw the TV Glow
    Jane Schoenbrun
12. Evil Does Not Exist
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
13. Challengers
    Luca Guadagnino
14. The Zone of Interest
    Jonathan Glazer
14. Janet Planet
    Annie Baker
16. Perfect Days
    Wim Wenders
17. Megalopolis
    Francis Ford Coppola
17. Grand Tour
    Miguel Gomes
17. Emilia Pérez
    Jacques Audiard
17. The Brutalist
    Brady Corbet
21. Henry Fonda for President
    Alexander Horwath
21. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
    Radu Jude
21. A Different Man
    Aaron Schimberg
21. Close Your Eyes
    Víctor Erice
25. Universal Language
    Matthew Rankin
25. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
    Johan Grimonprez
25. The Shrouds
    David Cronenberg
25. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
    Rungano Nyoni
25. Kneecap
    Rich Peppiatt
25. Crossing
    Levan Akin
31. The Room Next Door
    Pedro Almodóvar
31. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    George Miller
31. Civil War
    Alex Garland
31. The Beast
    Bertrand Bonello
35. The Taste of Things
    Trần Anh Hùng
35. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
    Mohammad Rasoulof
35. Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
    The Brothers Quay
35. Misericordia
    Alain Guiraudie
35. By the Stream
    Hong Sang-soo
35. About Dry Grasses
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan
41. Juror #2
    Clint Eastwood
41. I'm Still Here
    Walter Salles
41. The Holdovers
    Alexander Payne
41. Green Border
    Agnieszka Holland
41. Dune: Part Two
    Denis Villeneuve
41. Conclave
    Edward Berger
41. Black Dog
    Guan Hu
41. April
    Déa Kulumbegashvili
41. All of Us Strangers
    Andrew Haigh
41. Afternoons of Solitude
    Albert Serra

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• Jordan Cronk: Top Ten Films of 2024