Vengeance Most Fowl(Nick Park & Merlin Crossingham)
Anora(Sean Baker)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig(Mohammad Rasoulof)
Girls Will Be Girls(Shuchi Talati)
Rebel Ridge(Jeremy Saulnier)
Night Call(Michiel Blanchart)
Things Will Be Different(Michael Felker)
The Shrouds(David Cronenberg)
Additional 2024 Films By Rating
A Real Pain(Jesse Eisenberg)
Misericordia(Alain Guiraudie)
The Order(Justin Kurzel)
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In(Soi Cheang)
Souleymane's Story(Boris Lojkine)
The Substance(Coralie Fargeat)
Juror #2(Clint Eastwood)
Separated(Errol Morris)
A Quiet Place: Day One(Michael Sarnoski)
Blink Twice(Zoë Kravitz)
The Piano Lesson(Malcolm Washington)
Who by Fire(Philippe Lesage)
Kinds of Kindness(Yorgos Lanthimos)
Good One(India Donaldson)
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl(Rungano Nyoni)
Rumours(Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson)
The Luckiest Man in America(Samir Oliveros)
Between the Temples(Nathan Silver)
Love Lies Bleeding(Rose Glass)
Gut Instinct(Doug Dillaman)
I'm Still Here(Walter Salles)
Nightbitch(Marielle Heller)
Dahomey(Mati Diop)
Horizon: An American Saga—Chapter 1(Kevin Costner)
Hard Truths(Mike Leigh)
Nickel Boys(RaMell Ross)
Blitz(Steve McQueen)
Dune: Part Two(Denis Villeneuve)
No Other Land(Basel Adra & Rachel Szor & Hamdan Ballal & Yuval Abraham)
Longlegs(Osgood Perkins)
All We Imagine as Light(Payal Kapadia)
A Complete Unknown(James Mangold)
The Wild Robot(Chris Sanders)
Việt and Nam(Trương Ming Quý)
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga(George Miller)
The Brutalist(Brady Corbet)
The Instigators(Doug Liman)
The Girl With the Needle(Magnus von Horn)
The Room Next Door(Pedro Almodóvar)
Flow(Gints Zilbalodis)
Oh, Canada(Paul Schrader)
Parthenope(Paolo Sorrentino)
Civil War(Alex Garland)
A Different Man(Aaron Schimberg)
Harvest(Athina Rachel Tsangari)
Conclave(Edward Berger)
Henry James' Drive-Away Dykes(Ethan Coen)
Nosferatu(Robert Eggers)
The Apprentice(Ali Abbasi)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice(Tim Burton)
Pepe(Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias)
GladIIator(Ridley Scott)
Emilia Pérez(Jacques Audiard)
Caught by the Tides(Jia Zhang-ke)
A Traveler's Needs(Hong Sang-soo)
The Killer(John Woo)
Queer(Luca Guadagnino)
The Fall Guy.(David Leitch)
Bird(Andrea Arnold)
Twisters(Lee Isaac Chung)
Megalopolis(Francis Ford Coppola)
I Saw the TV Glow(Jane Schoenbrun)
The End(Joshua Oppenheimer)
Presence(Steven Soderbergh)
April(Dea Kulumbegashvili)
Rather than dramatically “unveiling” a top ten list sometime in January (as if anybody who reads this site didn’t already know what it was gonna look like), I revise the sucker as I go along. Here is what my list would look like if (god forbid) I were forced to make it today.
For archival purposes, I file everything by the year it had its world premiere. Many of these films will have been commercially released in the U.S. a year or two later, so my lists won’t always match up with other folks’ lists.
Films I haven’t yet rated on that scale are marked with if I currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit them and they get a numeral. If a film isn’t currently in my top ten, and I haven’t yet rated it, it ain’t here. There are a whole lot of those — if you’re wondering whether or not I’ve seen the masterpiece you can’t believe I omitted, check my master list.