Year-End Lists

Sean Fennessey: 100 Favorite Movies of 2024, as posted to Letterboxd

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s]

1. The Brutalist
   Brady Corbet
2. Nickel Boys
   RaMell Ross
3. Challengers
   Luca Guadagnino
4. Dune: Part Two
   Denis Villeneuve
5. Evil Does Not Exist
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
6. Civil War
   Alex Garland
7. Anora
   Sean Baker
8. Red Rooms
   Pascal Plante
9. Hard Truths
   Mike Leigh
10. The Substance
    Coralie Fargeat
11. Sing Sing
    Greg Kwedar
12. The Wild Robot
    Chris Sanders
13. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
    Johan Grimonprez
14. Here
    Robert Zemeckis
15. Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
    David Hinton
16. Flow
    Gints Zilbalodis
17. The First Omen
    Arkasha Stevenson
18. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    George Miller
19. Rebel Ridge
    Jeremy Saulnier
20. Nosferatu
    Robert Eggers
21. A Different Man
    Aaron Schimberg
22. Hit Man
    Richard Linklater
23. Conclave
    Edward Berger
24. A Real Pain
    Jesse Eisenberg
25. The Beast
    Bertrand Bonello
26. Trap
    M. Night Shyamalan
27. Love Lies Bleeding
    Rose Glass
28. Snack Shack
    Adam Carter Rehmeier
29. Juror #2
    Clint Eastwood
30. Babygirl
    Halina Reijn
31. Dìdi
    Sean Wang
32. I Saw the TV Glow
    Jane Schoenbrun
33. The Piano Lesson
    Malcolm Washington
34. A Complete Unknown
    James Mangold
35. The Bikeriders
    Jeff Nichols
36. Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
    Tyler Thomas Taormina
37. Good One
    India Donaldson
38. Between the Temples
    Nathan Silver
39. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
    Benjamin Ree
40. La chimera
    Alice Rohrwacher
41. Kneecap
    Rich Peppiatt
42. Janet Planet
    Annie Baker
43. A Quiet Place: Day One
    Michael Sarnoski
44. In a Violent Nature
    Chris Nash
45. Last Summer
    Catherine Breillat
46. We Live in Time
    John Crowley
47. Strange Darling
    JT Mollner
48. MadS
    David Moreau
49. The People's Joker
    Vera Drew
50. The Promised Land
    Nikolaj Arcel
51. Will & Harper
    Josh Greenbaum
52. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
    Radu Jude
53. Twisters
    Lee Isaac Chung
54. Robot Dreams
    Pablo Berger
55. Inside Out 2
    Kelsey Mann
56. Universal Language
    Matthew Rankin
57. September 5
    Tim Fehlbaum
58. Oh, Canada
    Paul Schrader
59. Hundreds of Beavers
    Mike Cheslik
60. The Order
    Justin Kurzel
61. The Devil’s Bath
    Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala
62. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
    Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham
63. Dahomey
    Mati Diop
64. Daughters
    Natalie Rae and Angela Patton
65. Spermworld
    Lance Oppenheim
66. Goodrich
    Hallie Meyers-Shyer
67. Jim Henson Idea Man
    Ron Howard
68. Femme
    Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping
69. STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces
    Morgan Neville
70. Here
    Bas Devos
71. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1
    Kevin Costner
72. Saturday Night
    Jason Reitman
73. Alien: Romulus
    Fede Álvarez
74. Tótem
    Lila Avilés
75. The Fire Inside
    Rachel Morrison
76. Longlegs
    Osgood Perkins
77. Transformers One
    Josh Cooley
78. Heretic
    Scott Beck and Bryan Woods
79. Small Things like These
    Tim Mielants
80. Immaculate
    Michael Mohan
81. Union
    Brett Story and Stephen Maing
82. Late Night with the Devil
    Colin Cairnes & Cameron Cairnes
83. The Beekeeper
    David Ayer
84. Kinds of Kindness
    Yorgos Lanthimos
85. How to Have Sex
    Molly Manning Walker
86. Woman of the Hour
    Anna Kendrick
87. MaXXXine
    Ti West
88. All We Imagine as Light
    Payal Kapadia
89. Drive-Away Dolls
    Ethan Coen
90. Stopmotion
    Robert Morgan
91. It’s What’s Inside
    Greg Jardin
92. La cocina
    Alonso Ruizpalacios
93. Thelma
    Josh Margolin
94. Exhuma
    Jang Jae-hyun
95. Monkey Man
    Dev Patel
96. Blackout
    Larry Fessenden
97. Ghostlight
    Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson
98. The Dead Don't Hurt
    Viggo Mortensen
99. The Last Stop in Yuma County
    Francis Galluppi
100. I'm Still Here
     Walter Salles