Best Films of 2024

The graphic below identifies the top 25 films from 2024 that critics ranked on their end-of-year "best of" lists. The full list goes to 100 and if you are interested in seeing it, I'm sourcing the list from the same website as I used last year. The methodology for compilation is ostensibly the same. Here's the detail from last year:

Films are sorted by the percentage of lists they are included on.* This is typically the same as sorting by number of lists included, but can vary when films make lists across multiple years.  For example, if one film makes 10 lists in a year with 100 lists available, it’s ranking will be higher than a film that makes 15 lists when 200 lists are available.  The times a film appears at the top of a list is used as a tie-breaker.

*punctuation errors corrected 

Basically, this is an annual best films comment that I'm posting for 2024. This is the post about the best films of 2023. Below this graphic, you'll find my rankings of these films (by tiers) with a list of the ones I still need to see. As I watch them over time, I'll edit the post but note the changes with yellow highlighting.  

This "best of" comment is distinct from both the annual post on "films of 2024," which is my end-of-year musing about all the films I saw in a calendar year, and my annual Oscar post, which concerns that year's Academy Award nominees. 

Top-tier films. These are very serious Oscar contenders:

TBD.

Conclave

I did not have particularly high expectations, but Conclave is excellent film-making. A thriller about selecting a new Pope!

Second-tier films. These are very good and could garner Oscar support:

A Different Man

Janet Planet

Juror #2

Civil War

Third-tier films. These are entertaining but flawed films:

Love Lies Bleeding

Fourth-tier films. I found these to be disappointing and do not recommend (if necessary, could remain blank):

TBD

Films yet to see (20 of 25 as of today):

Anora

Challengers

The Substance

The Brutalist

I Saw the TV Glow

Dune: Part Two

Nickel Boys

All We Imagine as Light

Wicked Part One

Sing Sing

Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World

A Real Pain

Hard Truths

The Beast

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Nosferatu

Evil Does Not Exist

The Wild Robot

No Other Land

Glancing through the rest of the top 100, I've seen the following films already and rank them roughly in this order:

Best of the rest

Green Border (#45) (I'd put this in the first tier above)

Between the Temples (42)

Thelma (61) 

Rebel Ridge (50)

Kneecap (60)

These were all about the same

Saturday Night (73)

Will & Harper (96)

Problemista (82)

Hit Man (31)

Flow (30)

Less enjoyable

Trap (44)

Nearly all of these films would be in my second or third tier above. 

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