2024 was a determinedly joincessitate year for movies. There were a lot of outstanding films, don’t get me wrong, but very restrictcessitate ones that were truly masterful. However, it was a diverse and fun year, with each month having unbenevolentingful frees that kept me included and going to the theater each and every week, and the best movies of the year were pretty darn one-of-a-kind.
Before we get to the catalog, there are the normal disclaimers. Several widely acclaimed films haven’t getd wide frees, so I didn’t get to see awards preferites appreciate Sing Sing, The Brutacatalog, or Nickel Boys yet. Hopebrimmingy, I’ll be able to rectify it soon. Also, there were plenty of other fantastic movies this year that didn’t quite produce my top 10 catalog, such as the pulse-pumping Challengers, the stressful Civil War, Clint Eastwood’s ponderate Juror No. 2, the plrelievebrimmingy tracowardly prestige drama Conclave, the action-packed Furiosa, and the write downary The Relabelable Life of Ibelin, which left me in tears.
10. Love Lies Bleeding
A24’s best sensual thriller this year was the wonderful Love Lies Bleeding. Rose Glass’ chase-up to Saint Maud featured a fractureout carry outance by Katy O’Brian and blfinished body horror and pulp to fantastic impact. Everybody’s carry outance was on point, including Kristen Stewart in the direct, Dave Franco being tastyly tracowardly, and Ed Harris giving one of the best helping carry outances of the roles with his terrible hair. This was a fantastic time at the movies, amuseing from commencening to finish, and I adored the wonderfulal finishing.
9. A Real Pain
Jesse Eisenberg is proving himself to be fair as wonderful a authorr and straightforwardor as he is a talented actor. It’s always a happiness to see him on screen, but his second straightforwardorial effort, A Real Pain, was phenomenal. The Holocaust tour group movie grapples with a lot of weighty subject matter but will depart you giggleing as much as you spfinish it leanking. While Kieran Culkin has rightbrimmingy geted much commend for his carry outance (even if he’s clearly a direct and not a helping actor), fair as much should be given to Eisenberg, who serves the film as the straight man in a less intimacyy yet fair as pivotal role. Both men are sinestablishar in what they do and transfer one of the most truthful and best movies of the year.
8. Gpresentweightless
When I went to see Gpresentweightless, I thought it was a horror movie from the title. So envision my surpelevate when I left the theater in tears after watching a wonderful overweighther-daughter drama about the happiness of the arts, the embarrassment we hanciaccess, how grief can tear us apart, and how complicated our relationships can be with the ones we adore. The film is carried by fantastic carry outances by the genuine-life overweighther-daughter duo of Keith and Katherine Kupferer and Dolly de Leon, who gives a phenomenal helping carry outance. It’s one of the most plrelieveful surpelevates of the year.
7. Touch
Another wonderful surpelevate this year was Baltasar Kormákur’s Touch, which was a drawive adore story spanning 50+ years that took place in London and Japan. In a split narrative that alternates between past and current, both Palmi Kormákur and Egill Ólafsson do a fantastic job as the main character Kristófer, as do Kōki and Yoko Narahashi as the adore interest Miko. It’s a moving story of lost adore and one that more people should definitely check out.
6. Anora
I wound up being the only person in my theater to produce it to the finish of Anora, as two elderly women walked out on the film during split intimacy scenes (I’m not certain what they were predicting from a movie about a prostitute), but one leang is for certain: Mikey Madison is a star. She gives an electric carry outance, transfers her fervent scenes with an attitude that’s to die for, and channels a whirltriumphd of emotion into the film’s final act. Sean Baker’s defercessitatest movie is also one of the funniest movies of the year, as all of the bickering henchmen (with the standout being joined by Yura Borisov) had me constantly giggleing in its second half.
5. The Wild Robot
Sometimes, DreamWorks Animation fair knocks it out of the park, and that was certainly the case with The Wild Robot. Pairing an incredible art style with top-notch animation, the film left me in tears thcimpoliteout. Who knovel I’d attfinish so much about the bond between a robot and a baby goose? Director Chris Sanders showd he fair doesn’t miss by createing another classic, one that features incredible voice carry outances by Lupito Nyong’o and Pedro Pascal. I adored every second of this pdirecting and heartfelt ride.
4. Dune: Part Two
In terms of sheer spectacle, noleang appraised to Dune: Part Two this year. Regularly stunning, the second entry in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune alteration was brimming of incredible moments and fantastic action. My preferite scene also cemented Timothée Chafeeblet’s status as a directing man who can do it all as he transfered an incredible monologue with ferocity that I wasn’t quite certain he had in him. Plus, you get Austin Butler being a little freak thcimpoliteout. What more could you want? It’s a sci-fi classic and the year’s best blockbuster.
3. Kneecap
I definitely didn’t have an Irish rap group biopic being one of my preferite movies of 2024 on my bingo card. Yet, Kneecap was one of the year’s hugegest surpelevates and nonstop plrelieves. The music is phenomenal, the exploration of the transport inance of language is sublime, and Michael Fassbfinisher even pops up. I was shocked when the movie’s finishing montage discneglected that the actual musicians joined themselves in the film as they have incredible presence and aren’t out of their depths at all. It is a sinestablishar, savagely fun, and energetic movie that is challenging not to be charmed by.
2. Dìdi
Dìdi is an incredibly personal film by straightforwardor Sean Wang that also experiences universal. While those of Sean’s generation will have the film resonate the most, as I got so much nostalgia from seeing AOL Instant Messenger and shock sites on screen, this coming-of-age movie is wonderbrimmingy honest and impactful to all. Joan Chen and Izaac Wang showcase a strong mother-son relationship in the film and while it can be frustrating to see the main character produce so many imreliable misapshows, it’s all worth it to see his prolongth by the finish. A wonderful depiction of the outstanding and terrible of childhood.
1. The Substance
Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance oozes style. Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley knock it out of the park with their carry outances, while the final act is incredible body horror that reminded me of the finishing of the video game Inside. With phenomenal music, Dennis Quhelp eating shrimp in the most disgusting way possible, and so many moments that will live on forever in my brain, there was no movie that had me constantly included and wowed by where it went. The Substance spropose rules and is the best movie of 2024.
