My Top 50 Movies of 2024
1. Flow (Gints Zilbalodis)
2. Longlegs (Osgood Perkins)
3. Conclave (Edward Berger)
2. Longlegs (Osgood Perkins)
3. Conclave (Edward Berger)
4. A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg)
5. Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve)
6. Nosferatu (Robert Eggers)
7. A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg)
8. Blitz (Steve McQueen)
9. Drive-Away Dolls (Ethan Coen)
10. Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)
11. Abigail (Matt Bettinelli-Opin and Tyler Gillett)
5. Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve)
6. Nosferatu (Robert Eggers)
7. A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg)
8. Blitz (Steve McQueen)
9. Drive-Away Dolls (Ethan Coen)
10. Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)
11. Abigail (Matt Bettinelli-Opin and Tyler Gillett)
12. The First Omen (Arkasha Stevenson)
13. Babygirl (Halina Reijn)
14. Challengers (Luca Guadagigno)
15. Saturday Night (Jason Reigman)
16. Wolfs (Jon Watts)
17. The Instigators (Doug Liman)
17. The Instigators (Doug Liman)
18. Woman of the Hour (Anna Kendrick)
19. Anora (Sean Baker)
20. The Fall Guy (David Leitch)
19. Anora (Sean Baker)
20. The Fall Guy (David Leitch)
21. A Complete Unknown (James Mangold)
22. Better Man (Michael Gracey)
23. Monkey Man (Dev Patel)
24. Civil War (Alex Garland)
25. Rebel Ridge (Jeremy Saulnier)
26. Kinds of Kindness (Yorgos Lanthimos)
27. Maria (Pablo Larrain)
28. Beatles ‘64 (David Tedeschi)
28. Beatles ‘64 (David Tedeschi)
29. The Silent Hour (Brad Anderson)
30. Lisa Frankenstein (Zelda Williams)
31. Good Grief (Dan Levy)
32. Orion And The Dark (Sean Charmatz)
30. Lisa Frankenstein (Zelda Williams)
31. Good Grief (Dan Levy)
32. Orion And The Dark (Sean Charmatz)
33. The Supremes At Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat (Tina Mabry)
34. Mean Girls (Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr.)
35. Gladiator II (Ridley Scott)
36. A Quiet Place: Day One (Michael Sarnoski)
34. Mean Girls (Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr.)
35. Gladiator II (Ridley Scott)
36. A Quiet Place: Day One (Michael Sarnoski)
37. Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood)
38. Fly Me To The Moon (Greg Berlanti)
39. Piece By Piece (Morgan Neville)
39. Piece By Piece (Morgan Neville)
40. Feast Your Ears: The Story of WHFS 102.3 FM (Jay Schlossberg)
41. The Wild Robot (Chris Sanders)
42. Don’t Move (Adam Schindler and Brian Netto)
43. Luther: Never Too Much (Dawn Porter)
43. Luther: Never Too Much (Dawn Porter)
44. Night Swim (Bryce McGuire)
45. The Idea of You (Michael Showalter)
46. Deadpool & Wolverine (Shawn Levy)
47. The Beekeeper (David Ayer)
47. The Beekeeper (David Ayer)
48. Inside Out 2 (Kelsey Mann)
49. Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 (Kevin Costner)
50. The Killer (John Woo)
This is really the first time I've compiled a list of my favorite films of any year. In all the years I did year-end lists for Baltimore City Paper, there was one year they sent me to review enough movies that I was invited to vote on the year's top ten films of 2008, and my ballot was kind of knowingly flimsy and full of popcorn movies. I'm just not much of a cinephile, and it never feels like the right time to do a year-end list because I don't go to the theater a lot, and it can take months or years for stuff to hit streaming services. Awards season also kind of blurs the lines between years, but I ultimately decided to just go with a movie being whatever year is on its IMDb page. Once I realized I have seen about 100 movies that came out in 2024 now, it felt like I could at least try and make a list and be happy with it, no matter how flawed or incomplete it may feel, and then go backwards by year from there.
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