Year-End Lists

Cory Woodroof: The Best 15 Films of 2024, as published by USA Today’s For the Win, in alphabetical order

[see also 2025]

• A Real Pain
  Jesse Eisenberg
• Anora
  Sean Baker
• Babygirl
  Halina Reijn
• The Brutalist
  Brady Corbet
• Challengers
  Luca Guadagnino
• Civil War
  Alex Garland
• Dune: Part Two
  Denis Villeneuve
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
  George Miller
• Hundreds of Beavers
  Mike Cheslik
• I Saw the TV Glow
  Jane Schoenbrun
• Inside Out 2
  Kelsey Mann
• Megalopolis
  Francis Ford Coppola
• Nickel Boys
  RaMell Ross
• Trap
  M. Night Shyamalan
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
  Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham

15 Very Honorable Mentions (Though There Could Be More)

• Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
  Tyler Thomas Taormina
• Conclave
  Edward Berger
• Deadpool & Wolverine
  Shawn Levy
• Dìdi
  Sean Wang
• Evil Does Not Exist
  Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
• Good One
  India Donaldson
• Hit Man
  Richard Linklater
• Juror #2
  Clint Eastwood
• Memoir of a Snail
  Adam Elliot
• Oh, Canada
  Paul Schrader
• Piece by Piece
  Morgan Neville
• Rap World
  Conner O’Malley & Danny Scharar
• Sing Sing
  Greg Kwedar
• Snack Shack
  Adam Carter Rehmeier
• Thelma
  Josh Margolin