Year-End Lists

Screen Slate: Best Movies of 2024, as voted on by contributors along with filmmakers, critics, performers, programmers, cinema workers, and other friends. As always, they also have individual lists of first viewings and discoveries that are very fun to browse.

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020]

1. A Different Man
   Aaron Schimberg
2. The Beast
   Bertrand Bonello
3. Janet Planet
   Annie Baker
4. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
   Radu Jude
5. Anora
   Sean Baker
6. La chimera
   Alice Rohrwacher
7. Last Summer
   Catherine Breillat
8. Nickel Boys
   RaMell Ross
9. Evil Does Not Exist
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
10. No Other Land
    Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
11. Dahomey
    Mati Diop
12. Megalopolis
    Francis Ford Coppola
13. Between the Temples
    Nathan Silver
14. Juror #2
    Clint Eastwood
15. Rap World
    Conner O’Malley & Danny Scharar
16. The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
    Joanna Arnow
17. Hard Truths
    Mike Leigh
18. All We Imagine as Light
    Payal Kapadia
19. I Saw the TV Glow
    Jane Schoenbrun
20. Challengers
    Luca Guadagnino