2024 in Films

Format adapted from Charles François, who I still hope will one day rediscover his cinephilia and start hanging out with myself and the Skandies crew again. It’s been ten years since he last used it and I hereby declare it in the public domain.

Combine the first two columns for a list of films released (or "released") in 2024, and the last two columns for films seen in 2024. Ordering is preferential when ratings are identical.

Seen Previously
Movies I saw in 2023 {or before} that were released in the U.S. in 2024. Films not yet released but currently scheduled for this year are indicated by a (→).
Seen in 2024
Movies I saw shortly before, during or after their 2024 U.S. run. Asterisks (*) indicate films seen prior to their actual release. TV-only "runs" (arbitrarily deemed eligible) get a (†).
To Be Released
Movies I saw in 2024 which are still awaiting a U.S. release. Those known to have lined up distribution are indicated by a (→). Production {year} is listed if film is more than two years old.

A For All Time

A- Event

B+/A- Near Great

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. and Three More: "The Swan", "The Rat Catcher", and "Poison" by Roald Dahl (Anderson) 80

B+ Must See

Red Rooms (Plante) 77

B/B+ Warmly Recommended

Challengers (Guadagnino) 71
Hit Man (Linklater) 69

B Recommended

Rebel Ridge (Saulnier) 65
His Three Daughters (Jacobs) 64
Pictures of Ghosts (Mendonça Filho) 64

B-/B Recommended with Mild Reservations

*Evil Does Not Exist (Hamaguchi) 63
Last Summer (Breillat) 63
*Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (Jude) 62
The Beast (Bonello) 60
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Cheang) 60

B- Recommended with Strong Reservations

*The Substance (Fargeat) 59
A Quiet Place: Day One (Sarnoski) 59
*Janet Planet (Baker) 58
Blink Twice (Kravitz) 58
Flipside (Wilcha) 57
Lumberjack the Monster (Miike) 57
*Kinds of Kindness (Lanthimos) 57
Hundreds of Beavers (Cheslik) 56
Rumours (Maddin & Johnsons) 56
Tuesday (Pusić) 55
Love Lies Bleeding (Glass) 55

C+/B- On the Fence, Leaning Forward

Gut Instinct (Dillaman) 54
Green Border (Holland) 54
Horizon: An American Saga—Chapter 1 (Costner) 53
Dune: Part Two (Villeneuve) 53
Longlegs (Perkins) 52
All We Imagine as Light (Kapadia) 52
Close Your Eyes (Erice) 52
The Wild Robot (Sanders) 51
Coma (Bonello) 51
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Miller) 51

C+ Take It or Leave It

The Instigators (Liman) 50
Io capitano (Garrone) 50
Kidnapped (Bellocchio) 50
Coup de chance (Allen) 49
Gasoline Rainbow (Rosses) 49
Civil War (Garland) 49
Mother and Son (Serraille) 49
The Shadowless Tower (Zhang) 48
Henry James' Drive-Away Dykes (Coen) 48
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Burton) 47
Together 99 (Moodysson) 46

C/C+ On the Fence, Leaning Backward

A Traveler's Needs (Hong) 45
The Killer (Woo) 44
The Old Oak (Loach) 44
The Settlers (Gálvez) 43
The Fall Guy. (Leitch) 42

C Pass

Bird (Arnold) 41
Firebrand (Aïnouz) 40
In Our Day (Hong) 39
Banel & Adama (Sy) 39
Club Zero (Hausner) 38
Here (Devos) 37

C- Ugh

Megalopolis (Coppola) 36
I Saw the TV Glow (Schoenbrun) 35
Asphalt City (Sauvaire) 34

D+ Double-Ugh

Music (Schanelec) 25

D Bomb

F Burn the Negative

Walk-outs Channel Surfing

Anton's Right Here {2012} (Arkus)
Ashkal (Chebbi)
Checkpoint {2003} (Shamir)
Disco Boy (Abbruzzese)
Domingo and the Mist (Escalante)
Explanation for Everything (Reisz)
The First Omen (Stevenson)
Ghostlight (O'Sullivan, Thompson)
The Hero {2004} (Gamboa)
How to Have Sex (Manning Walker)
I Used to Be Funny (Pankiw)
In a Violent Nature (Nash)
Inshallah a Boy (Al Rasheed)
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Phạm)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (Ball)
La Jauría (Ramírez Pulido)
The Mother of All Lies (El Moudir)
Nervous Translation (Seno)
The New Boy (Thornton)
October 17, 1961 {2005} (Tasma)
A Prince (Creton)
Sing Sing (Kwedar)
*Sleep (Yu)
Terrestrial Verses (Asgari, Khatami)
Three Step Dancing {2003} (Mereu)
Under the Fig Trees (Sehiri)
Viva Varda! (Gibert)

Incomplete Mishap/Bad Timing