2024 Top Ten List

Challengers (Luca Guadagnino)

Rebel Ridge (Jeremy Saulnier)

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang)

The Substance (Coralie Fargeat)

A Quiet Place: Day One (Michael Sarnoski)

Blink Twice (Zoë Kravitz)

Kinds of Kindness (Yorgos Lanthimos)

Rumours (Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson)

Love Lies Bleeding (Rose Glass)

Gut Instinct (Doug Dillaman)

Additional 2024 Films By Rating

Horizon: An American Saga—Chapter 1 (Kevin Costner)

Dune: Part Two (Denis Villeneuve)

Longlegs (Osgood Perkins)

All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia)

The Wild Robot (Chris Sanders)

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (George Miller)

The Instigators (Doug Liman)

Civil War (Alex Garland)

Henry James' Drive-Away Dykes (Ethan Coen)

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Tim Burton)

A Traveler's Needs (Hong Sang-soo)

The Killer (John Woo)

The Fall Guy. (David Leitch)

Bird (Andrea Arnold)

Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)

I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun)

Rather than dramatically “unveiling” a top ten list sometime in January (as if anybody who reads this site didn’t already know what it was gonna look like), I revise the sucker as I go along. Here is what my list would look like if (god forbid) I were forced to make it today.

For archival purposes, I file everything by the year it had its world premiere. Many of these films will have been commercially released in the U.S. a year or two later, so my lists won’t always match up with other folks’ lists.

Ratings are on a needlessly precise 100-point scale.

Films I haven’t yet rated on that scale are marked with if I currently think they belong in my top ten. These films are subject to being shifted around or yanked altogether at any moment, after I revisit them and they get a numeral. If a film isn’t currently in my top ten, and I haven’t yet rated it, it ain’t here. There are a whole lot of those — if you’re wondering whether or not I’ve seen the masterpiece you can’t believe I omitted, check my master list.