Year-End Lists

IndieWire: Best Movies of 2024, as voted by 177 film critics and journalists

1. Anora
   Sean Baker
2. The Brutalist
   Brady Corbet
3. Nickel Boys
   RaMell Ross
4. All We Imagine as Light
   Payal Kapadia
5. Challengers
   Luca Guadagnino
6. I Saw the TV Glow
   Jane Schoenbrun
7. Dune: Part Two
   Denis Villeneuve
8. The Substance
   Coralie Fargeat
9. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
   Radu Jude
10. Hard Truths
    Mike Leigh
11. Conclave
    Edward Berger
12. A Real Pain
    Jesse Eisenberg
13. The Beast
    Bertrand Bonello
14. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
    Mohammad Rasoulof
15. Close Your Eyes
    Víctor Erice
16. Flow
    Gints Zilbalodis
17. Emilia Pérez
    Jacques Audiard
18. A Different Man
    Aaron Schimberg
19. Evil Does Not Exist
    Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
20. No Other Land
    Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
21. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    George Miller
22. Sing Sing
    Greg Kwedar
23. Janet Planet
    Annie Baker
24. Juror #2
    Clint Eastwood
25. Civil War
    Alex Garland
26. Nosferatu
    Robert Eggers
27. The Room Next Door
    Pedro Almodóvar
28. Hit Man
    Richard Linklater
29. Babygirl
    Halina Reijn
30. Megalopolis
    Francis Ford Coppola
31. A Complete Unknown
    James Mangold
32. September 5
    Tim Fehlbaum
33. The Wild Robot
    Chris Sanders
34. Between the Temples
    Nathan Silver
35. Dahomey
    Mati Diop
36. Wicked
    Jon M. Chu
37. Green Border
    Agnieszka Holland
38. Hundreds of Beavers
    Mike Cheslik
39. Queer
    Luca Guadagnino
40. Red Rooms
    Pascal Plante
41. His Three Daughters
    Azazel Jacobs
42. Last Summer
    Catherine Breillat
43. The Bikeriders
    Jeff Nichols
44. Youth (Hard Times)
    Wang Bing
45. Good One
    India Donaldson
46. Love Lies Bleeding
    Rose Glass
47. The People's Joker
    Vera Drew
48. The Apprentice
    Ali Abbasi
49. Inside Out 2
    Kelsey Mann
50. It's Not Me
    Leos Carax

Best Documentary

1. No Other Land
   Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
2. Dahomey
   Mati Diop
3. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
   Johan Grimonprez
4. Pictures of Ghosts
   Kleber Mendonça Filho
5. Will & Harper
   Josh Greenbaum
6. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
   Benjamin Ree
7. Black Box Diaries
   Shiori Itō
8. Sugarcane
   Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie
9. Look into My Eyes
   Lana Wilson
10. Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
    Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui

Best International Film

1. All We Imagine as Light
   Payal Kapadia
2. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
   Radu Jude
3. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
   Mohammad Rasoulof
4. Evil Does Not Exist
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
5. The Beast
   Bertrand Bonello
6. Close Your Eyes
   Víctor Erice
7. Flow
   Gints Zilbalodis
8. No Other Land
   Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
9. Emilia Pérez
   Jacques Audiard
10. Kneecap
    Rich Peppiatt
10. Red Rooms
    Pascal Plante

Best First Feature

1. Janet Planet
   Annie Baker
2. Good One
   India Donaldson
3. The People's Joker
   Vera Drew
4. Dìdi
   Sean Wang
4. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
   Phạm Thiên Ân
5. Blink Twice
   Zoë Kravitz