Year-End Lists

Guy Lodge: 51 Favourite Films of 2024, as posted to Bluesky in an epic thread

[see also 2025 • 2022]

1. April
   Déa Kulumbegashvili
2. Grand Tour
   Miguel Gomes
3. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
   Rungano Nyoni
4. Who by Fire
   Philippe Lesage
5. Babygirl
   Halina Reijn
6. Anora
   Sean Baker
7. No Other Land
   Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
8. The Brutalist
   Brady Corbet
9. A Want in Her
   Myrid Carten
10. Black Dog
    Guan Hu
11. Familiar Touch
    Sarah Friedland
12. Windless
    Pavel G. Vesnakov
13. Afternoons of Solitude
    Albert Serra
14. All We Imagine as Light
    Payal Kapadia
15. Hard Truths
    Mike Leigh
16. Eephus
    Carson Lund
17. Nickel Boys
    RaMell Ross
18. The Other Way Around
    Jonás Trueba
19. Nosferatu
    Robert Eggers
20. Here
    Bas Devos
21. Small Things like These
    Tim Mielants
22. Caught by the Tides
    Jia Zhang-ke
23. Love Lies Bleeding
    Rose Glass
24. Universal Language
    Matthew Rankin
25. On Falling
    Laura Carreira
26. A Different Man
    Aaron Schimberg
27. Dahomey
    Mati Diop
28. Sweet Dreams
    Ena Sendijarević
29. The Girl with the Needle
    Magnus von Horn
30. Misericordia
    Alain Guiraudie
31. Diciannove
    Giovanni Tortorici
32. Good One
    India Donaldson
33. Between the Temples
    Nathan Silver
34. Peacock
    Bernhard Wenger
35. The Sparrow in the Chimney
    Ramon Zürcher
36. Julie Keeps Quiet
    Leonardo Van Dijl
37. The Count of Monte Cristo
    Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière
38. Mongrel
    Chiang Wei-liang & Yin You-qiao
39. Forever-Forever
    Anna Buryachkova
40. Union
    Brett Story and Stephen Maing
41. Queer
    Luca Guadagnino
42. A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
    Mark Cousins
43. Flow
    Gints Zilbalodis
44. Eight Postcards from Utopia
    Radu Jude
44. Sleep #2
    Radu Jude
45. In a Violent Nature
    Chris Nash
46. Vermiglio
    Maura Delpero
47. Rumours
    Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson
48. A Traveler's Needs
    Hong Sang-soo
49. Carissa
    Jason Jacobs & Devon Delmar
50. Longlegs
    Osgood Perkins
51. Blitz
    Steve McQueen