Year-End Lists

Chris Shields: Best Films of 2024, as submitted to the Film Comment Poll

1. Dahomey
   Mati Diop
2. About Dry Grasses
   Nuri Bilge Ceylan
3. Samsara
   Lois Patiño
4. The People's Joker
   Vera Drew
5. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
   Phạm Thiên Ân
6. The Shadowless Tower
   Zhang Lü
7. Megalopolis
   Francis Ford Coppola
8. In Our Day
   Hong Sang-soo
9. A Traveler's Needs
   Hong Sang-soo
10. Evil Does Not Exist
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
11. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
    Radu Jude
12. Rumours
    Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson
13. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
    Mohammad Rasoulof
14. Terrifier 3
    Damien Leone
15. Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara
    Marco Bellocchio
16. Hit Man
    Richard Linklater
17. The End
    Joshua Oppenheimer
18. Road House
    Doug Liman
19. Perfect Days
    Wim Wenders