Best Films of 2024

Ratings for the 2024 season

MUST SEE...: 7.3 Payal Kapadia: All We Imagine as Light 7.3 Miguel Gomes: Grand Tour (Portugal) 7.3 Jia Zhangke: Caught by the Tides (China) 7.2 Matthew Rankin: Universal Language (Canada) 7.2 Alonso Ruizpalacios: La Cocina (Mexico) 7.2 Jane Schoenbrun: I Saw The TV Glow (USA) 7.2 Dea Kulumbegashvili: April 7.1 Maura Delpero: Vermiglio 7.1 Tim Mielants: Small Things Like These (Belgium) 7.1 Gustav Moeller: Vogter/ Sons (Sweden) 7.1 Matthias Glasner: Sterben/ Dying (Germany) 7.1 Sean Baker: Anora (USA) 7.1 Adilkhan Yerzhanov: Dala Kaskyry/ Steppenwolf (2024) 7.1 JT Mollner: Strange Darling 7.1 Jeremy Saulnier: Rebel Ridge 7.0 Cedric Kahn: The Goldman Case 7.0 Guillem Morales: The WaspC: 7.0 Mike Leigh: Hard Truths 7.0 Nathan Silver: Between the Temples 7.0 Zoe Kravitz: Blink Twice 7.0 Tyler Taormina: Christmas Eve at Miller's Point 7.0 Sean Wang: Didi 7.0 Rungano Nyoni: On Becoming a Guinea Fowl 7.0 Mohammad Rasoulof: The Seed of the Sacred Fig 7.0 Magnus von Horn: The Girl With the Needle 7.0 Lou Ye: An Unfinished Film 7.0 Jonathan Millet: Ghost Trail 7.0 Jacques Audiard: Emilia Perez 7.0 Gints Zilbalodis: Flow (Lithuania) 7.0 Coralie Fargeat: The Substance 7.0 Andrew Cumming: Out of Darkness (USA) 7.0 Robert Morgan: Stopmotion (Britain) 7.0 Rudy Mancuso Musica (USA) 7.0 David Zellner & Nathan Zellner: Sasquatch Sunset (USA) 7.0 Alex Garland: Civil War (Britain) 7.0 Chris Nash: In a Violent Nature 7.0 Jeff Nichols: The Bikeriders 7.0 Angela Schanelec: Music 7.0 Greg Kwedar: Sing Sing 7.0 Levan Akin: Crossing 7.0 India Donaldson: Good One 7.0 Pedro Almodovar: The Room Next Door 7.0 Justin Kurzel: The Order 7.0 Brady Corbet: The Brutalist 7.0 Bogdan Muresanu: The New Year That Never Came

SO SO...: 6.9 Denis Villeneuve: Dune Part Two 6.9 Julien Colonna: The Kingdom 6.9 Ludovic & Zoran Boukherma: And Their Children After Them 6.9 Quay Brothers: Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass 6.8 Walter Salles: Ainda Estou Aqui/ I’m Still Here 6.8 Annie Baker: Janet Planet 6.8 Wei Liang Chiang & You Qiao Yin: Mongrel 6.8 Leonardo Van Dijl: Julie Keeps Quiet 6.8 Karim Ainouz: Motel Destino 6.8 George Miller: Furiosa - A Mad Max Saga 6.8 Emanuel Parvu: Three Kilometres to the End of the World 6.8 Claude Barras: Savages 6.8 Maryam Moghaddam & Behtash Sanaeeha: My Favourite Cake 6.8 Rose Glass: Love Lies Bleeding 6.8 Dag Johan Haugerud: Sex 6.8 Luca Guadagnino: Challengers 6.8 Pamela Adlon: Babes 6.8 Noah Schamus: Summer Solstice 6.8 Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson: Ghostlight 6.8 Pierre Mouchet: Schlitter - Evil in the Woods. 6.8 Ti West: MaXXXine 6.8 Saule Bliuvaite: Akiplesa/ Toxic 6.8 Zia Anger: My First Film 6.7 Laurynas Bareisa: Seses/ Drowning Dry 6.7 Sebastien Laudenbach & Chiara Malta: Chicken for Linda! 6.7 Mahdi Fleifel: To a Land Unknown 6.7 Constance Tsang: Blue Sun Palace 6.6 Lorcan Finnegan: The Surfer 6.6 Luca Guadagnino: Queer 6.6 Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala: The Devil’s Bath 6.6 Laura Chinn: Suncoast 6.6 Cameron Cairnes & Colin Cairnes: Late Night With the Devil 6.6 Vera Drew: The People's Joker 6.6 Bradley Rust Gray: I'll Be Your Mirror 6.5 Dev Patel: Monkey Man 6.5 Todd Phillips: Joker: Folie a` Deux 6.5 Pablo Larrain: Maria 6.5 Fabrice Du Welz: Maldoror 6.5 Sarah Friedland: Familiar Touch 6.5 Murat Firatoglu: One of Those Days When Hemme Dies 6.5 Sangsoo Hong: Suyoocheon/ By the Stream 6.5 Woody Allen Coup de Chance 6.5 Arkasha Stevenson: The First Omen 6.5 Pawo Choyning Dorji: The Monk and the Gun 6.5 Alex Garland: Civil War 6.5 Wade Allain-Marcus: Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead 6.5 Minhal Baig: We Grown Now 6.5 Theda Hammel: Stress Positions 6.5 Ali Asgari & Alireza Khatami: Terrestrial Verses 6.5 Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet: Abigail 6.5 Rachel Lambert: Sometimes I Think About Dying 6.5 Runar Runarsson: When the Light Breaks 6.5 Kirill Serebrennikov: Limonov - The Ballad 6.5 Boris Lojkine: The Story of Souleymane 6.5 Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross: Gasoline Rainbow 6.5 Erica Tremblay: Fancy Dance 6.5 Lee Tamahori:The Convert 6.5 Janis Pugh: Chuck Chuck Baby 6.5 Rich Peppiatt: Kneecap 6.5 Tilman Singer: Cuckoo 6.5 Dominique Abel & Fiona Gordon: The Falling Star 6.5 Andrea Arnold: Bird

Passable...: 6.4 Guy Maddin: Rumours 6.4 David Cronenberg: The Shrouds 6.4 Jianjie Lin: Brief History of a Family 6.3 Scandar Copti: Happy Holidays 6.3 Josh Margolin: Thelma 6.2 Tayarisha Poe: The Young Wife 6.0 Michael Cristofer: The Great Lillian Hall 6.0 Kurdwin Ayub: Mond/ Moon 6.0 Bing Wang: Qing chun (Ku) 6.0 Mar Coll: Salve Maria/ Mothers Don't 6.0 Gianluca Jodice: The Flood 6.0 Tato Kotetishvili: Holy Electricity 6.0 Kelsey Mann: Inside Out 2 6.0 David Ayer: The Beekeeper 6.0 David Leitch: The Fall Guy 6.0 Michael Showalter: The Idea of You 6.0 Jerry Seinfeld: Unfrosted 6.0 Hannah Marks: Turtles All the Way Down 6.0 Kazik Radwanski: Matt and Mara 6.0 Piero Messina: Another End 6.0 Julia von Heinz: Treasure 6.0 Sang-soo Hong: A Traveler’s Needs 6.0 Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego: American Star 6.0 Emma Westenberg: Bleeding Love 6.0 Bertrand Mandico: She Is Conann 6.0 Anthony Chen: Drift 6.0 Keir O'Donnell: Marmalade 6.0 Ethan Coen: Drive-Away Dolls 6.0 Adam Rehmeier: Snack Shack 6.0 Michael Keaton: Knox Goes Away 6.0 Simon Cellan Jones: Arthur the King 6.0 Michael Mohan: Immaculate 6.0 Guy Ritchie: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare 6.0 Zack Snyder: Rebel Moon — Part Two The Scargiver 6.0 Caitlin Cronenberg: Humane 6.0 Richard Ramsey & Joel Smallbone: Unsung Hero 6.0 Olivier Assayas: Hors du Temps/ Suspended Time 6.0 Ming-liang Tsai: Abiding Nowhere 6.0 Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias: Pepe 6.0 Abderrahmane Sissako: Black Tea 6.0 Bruno Dumont: The Empire 6.0 Wang Xiaoshuai: Wotu/ Above the Dust 6.0 Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Chime 6.0 Edward Berger: The Conclave 6.0 Aaron Schimberg: A Different Man 6.0 Nora Fingscheidt: The Outrun 6.0 David and Nathan Zellner: Sasquatch Sunset 6.0 Yorgos Lanthimos: Kinds of Kindness 6.0 Michel Hazanavicius: The Most Precious of Cargoes 6.0 Marija Kavtaradze: Slow 6.0 Gilles Lellouche: Beating Hearts 6.0 Christophe Honore': Marcello Mio 6.0 Agathe Riedinger: Wild Diamond 6.0 Wes Ball: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 6.0 Frank Berry: Aisha 6.0 Wes Ball: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes 6.0 John Krasinski: IF 6.0 Tig Notaro & Stephanie Allynne: Am I OK? 6.0 Jake Allyn: Ride 6.0 Michael Sarnoski: A Quiet Place - Day One 6.0 Penny Lane: Confessions of a Good Samaritan 6.0 Pierre Creton: A Prince 6.0 Lee Isaac Chung: Twisters 6.0 Damian Mc Carthy: Oddity 6.0 Chiwetel Ejiofor: Rob Peace 6.0 Joseph Schuman & Austin Stark: Coup! 6.0 Mikko Makela: Sebastian 6.0 Justin Baldoni: It Ends With Us 6.0 Monica Sorelle: Mountains 6.0 Max Eggers & Sam Eggers: The Front Room 6.0 Terry McDonough: Damaged 6.0 Asif Kapadia: 2073 6.0 Gianni Amelio: Campo di Battaglia/ Battlefield 6.0 Jon Watts: Wolfs 6.0 Luis Ortega: Kill the Jockey 6.0 Athina Rachel Tsangari: Harvest

YUCK!...: 5.9 James Woods & Nicolas Wright: French Girl 5.8 Halina Reijn: Babygirl 5.7 Jethro Massey: Paul and Paulette Take a Bath 5.6 Tim Burton: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 5.5 Michael Lukk Litwak: Molli and Max in the Future 5.5 Marco Tullio Giordana: La Vita Accanto/ The Life Apart 5.5 Marta Mateus: Fogo do Vento/ Fire of Wind 5.5 Mouly Surya: Trigger Warning (2024) 5.5 Soi Cheang: Twilight of the Warriors - Walled In 5.5 Quentin Dupieux: The Second Act 5.5 Paul Schrader: Oh Canada 5.5 Kevin Costner: Horizon - An American Saga - Chapter 1 5.5 Francis Ford Coppola: Megalopolis 5.5 Chris Pine: Poolman 5.5 Chris Skotchdopole: Crumb Catcher 5.5 Shawn Levy: Deadpool & Wolverine 5.5 Simon Verhoeven: Girl You Know It's True 5.0 Paolo Sorrentino: Parthenope 5.0 Ali Abbasi: The Apprentice 5.0 Alfonso Cuaron: Disclaimer 5.0 Sara Fgaier: Sulla Terra Leggeri/ Weightless 5.0 Gurcan Keltek: Yeni Safak Solarken/ New Dawn Fades 5.0 Ala Eddine Slim: Agora 5.0 Noemie Merlant: Balconette 5.0 James Hawes: One Life 5.0 Jon Gunn: Ordinary Angels 5.0 DK Welchman & Hugh Welchman: The Peasants 5.0 Jade Halley Bartlett: Millers Girl 5.0 Molly McGlynn: Fitting In 5.0 Trish Sie: Players 5.0 Matt Vesely: Monolith 5.0 William Eubank: Land of Bad 5.0 Tom Gustafson: Glitter & Doom 5.0 Alejandro Monteverde: Cabrini 5.0 Peter Farrelly: Ricky Stanicky 5.0 Doug Liman: Road House 5.0 Thea Sharrock: The Beautiful Game 5.0 Philip Martin: Scoop 5.0 Ethan Hawke: Wildcat 5.0 Rod Blackhurst: Blood for Dust 5.0 Daishi Matsunaga: Egoist 5.0 Moritz Mohr: Boy Kills World 5.0 D.W. Waterson: Backspot 5.0 Ally Pankiw: I Used to Be Funny 5.0 David Duchovny: Reverse the Curse 5.0 Richard LaGravenese: A Family Affair 5.0 Christy Hall: Daddio 5.0 Ben Bigelow: Thine Ears Shall Bleed 5.0 Greg Berlanti: Fly Me to the Moon 5.0 Chris Renaud & Patrick Delage: Despicable Me 4 5.0 Stelana Kliris: Find Me Falling 5.0 Thomas Napper: Widow Clicquot 5.0 Night Shyamalan: Trap 5.0 Carlos Saldanha: Harold and the Purple Crayon 5.0 Steven Kanter & Henry Loevner: Peak Season 5.0 Fabrice Du Welz: Maldoror 5.0 John Woo: The Killer (remake) 5.0 Brendan Walsh: I'll Be Right There 5.0 Lee Daniels: The Deliverance

GASP!...: 4.9 Mario Van Peebles: Outlaw Posse 4.8 Jeff Wadlow: Imaginary 4.8 Ned Benson: The Greatest Hits 4.8 Shannon Tindle & John Aoshima: Ultraman - Rising 4.7 Sam Taylor-Johnson: Back to Black 4.6 Julia von Heinz: Treasure 4.5 Benjamin Brewer: Arcadian 4.5 Virgil Vernier: Cent Mille Milliards 4.5 Johan Renck: Spaceman 4.5 Zelda Williams: Lisa Frankenstein 4.5 John Ridley: Shirley 4.5 Tony Goldwyn: Ezra 4.5 Michelle Schumacher: You Can’t Run Forever 4.5 Adil & Bilall: Bad Boys - Ride or Die 4.5 Ishana Night Shyamalan: The Watchers 4.5 Oz Perkins: Longlegs 4.5 Jack Clark and Jim Weir: Birdeater 4.5 Christopher Clarke: Carbon & Water 4.5 Paul Feig: Jackpot! 4.5 Ariel Vromen: 1992 4.5 Mikael Hafstrom: Slingshot 4.2 Chris Weitz: AfrAId 4.0 Joachim Ronning: Young Woman and the Sea 4.0 Renny Harlin: The Strangers - Chapter 14.0 Mark Waters: Mother of the Bride 4.0 Susumu Mitsunaka: Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle 4.0 Bryce McGuire: Night Swim 4.0 S.J. Clarkson: Madame Web 4.0 Reinaldo Marcus Green: Bob Marley: One Love 4.0 Charles Stone III: The Underdoggs 4.0 Tyler Perry: Divorce in the Black 4.0 Matthew Vaughn: Argylle 4.0 Amelia's Children 4.0 Jeff Chan: Code 8 Part II 4.0 Mike Mitchell & Stephanie Stine: Kung Fu Panda 4 4.0 Adam Wingard: Godzilla x Kong - The New Empire 4.0 Gil Kenan: Ghostbusters - Frozen Empire 4.0 Jean-Stephane Sauvaire: Asphalt City 4.0 Savi Gabizon: Longing 4.0 Joshua John Miller: The Exorcism 4.0 Peter Segal: My Spy - The Eternal City 4.0 Jocelyn Moorhouse: The Fabulous Four 4.0 Doug Liman: The Instigators 4.0 Eli Roth Borderlands 4.0 Fede Alvarez: Alien Romulus 4.0 Julian Farino: The Union 4.0 Robert Schwartzman: The Good Half 4.0 Vaughan Blakey & Nick Pollet: The Greatest Surf Movie in the Universe 4.0 Dominic Savage: Close to You 4.0 Dave Chernin & John Chernin: Incoming 4.0 Rupert Sanders: The Crow 4.0 David Gordon Green: Nutcrackers 4.0 Sean McNamara: Reagan 3.5 Gia Coppola: The Last Showgirl