1. Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos)

2. May December (Todd Haynes)

3. They Cloned Tyrone (Juel Taylor)

4. Past Lives (Celine Song)

5. His Three Daughters (Azazel Jacobs)

6. Killers of the Flower Moon (Martin Scorsese)

7. The Holdovers (Alexander Payne)

8. Priscilla (Sophia Coppola)

9. Bottoms (Emma Seligman)

10. Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)

11. The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)

12. Hit Man (Richard Linklater)

13. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller)

14. You Hurt My Feelings (Nicole Holofcener)

15. Evil Dead Rise (Lee Cronin)

16. American Fiction (Cord Jefferson)

17. The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki)

18. Rye Lane (Raine Allen-Miller)

19. Theater Camp (Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman)

20. Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster)

21. Nimona (Nick Bruno and Troy Quane)

22. Barbie (Greta Gerwig)

23. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (Christopher McQuarrie)

24. Godzilla Minus One (Takashi Yamazaki)

25. Dicks: The Musical (Larry Charles)

26. Robot Dreams (Pablo Berger)

27. The Killer (David Fincher)

28. No Hard Feelings (Gene Stupnitsky)

29. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (Jeff Rowe and Kyler Spears)

30. Nyad (Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi)

31. How To Have Sex (Molly Manning Walker)

32. Asteroid City (Wes Anderson)

33. Leave The World Behind (Sam Esmail)

34. Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet)

35. The Creator (Gareth Edwards)

36. No One Will Save You (Brian Duffield)

37. The Bikeriders (Jeff Nichols)

38. Fingernails (Christos Nikou)

39. I Used To Be Funny (Ally Pankiw)

40. The Marvels (Nia DaCosta)

41. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (Johnathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley)

42. Elemental (Peter Sohn)

43. Rustin (George C. Wolfe)

44. Anyone But You (Will Gluck)

45. The Iron Claw (Sean Durkin)

46. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (James Gunn)

47. Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain (Paul Briganti)

48. Saltburn (Emerald Fennell)

49. Maestro (Bradley Cooper)
50. The Last Voyage of the Demeter (Andre Ovredal)

Last month I made kind of my first list of favorites movies a year ever, for 2024, and now I'm working my way backwards. I've always just kinda let myself like what I like in film and not overthink it as much as I do with music, so it's a little uncomfortable but a little fun to try and articulate my taste and personal canon a little more, the respectable stuff I like and the genre movies and multiplex franchises. I think this was a particularly good year for Oscar flicks. Some of these movies, when I wrote about them here after watching them, I was a little nitpicky or unenthusiastic, but with some time and perspective, I have to say okay, they deserve to be here.