Year-End Lists

David Fear: 20 Best Movies of 2024, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also The 20 Best Movies of 2025 • The 20 Best Movies of 2023 • 22 Best Movies of 2022 • 20 Best Movies of 2021 • The 20 Best Movies of 2020 • Top 20 Movies of 2018 • Best Films of 2017 • 22 Best Documentaries of 2017 • 10 Best Movies of 2012 • Best Films of 2011]

1. His Three Daughters
   Azazel Jacobs
2. Good One
   India Donaldson
3. A Real Pain
   Jesse Eisenberg
4. Anora
   Sean Baker
5. The Brutalist
   Brady Corbet
6. All We Imagine as Light
   Payal Kapadia
7. Dahomey
   Mati Diop
8. The Substance
   Coralie Fargeat
9. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
   Radu Jude
10. La chimera
    Alice Rohrwacher
11. Tótem
    Lila Avilés
12. Challengers
    Luca Guadagnino
13. Janet Planet
    Annie Baker
14. Robot Dreams
    Pablo Berger
15. Perfect Days
    Wim Wenders
16. Hard Truths
    Mike Leigh
17. Dune: Part Two
    Denis Villeneuve
18. Flow
    Gints Zilbalodis
19. Rebel Ridge
    Jeremy Saulnier
20. Nickel Boys
    RaMell Ross

Honorable mentions

• Close Your Eyes
  Víctor Erice
• Green Border
  Agnieszka Holland
• How to Have Sex
  Molly Manning Walker
• Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
  Phạm Thiên Ân
• Megalopolis
  Francis Ford Coppola
• Nosferatu
  Robert Eggers
• Queer
  Luca Guadagnino
• Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
  Johan Grimonprez
• The Taste of Things
  Trần Anh Hùng
• Vermiglio
  Maura Delpero