Year-End Lists

Jordan Ruimy: 10 Best Films of 2024, as published by World of Reel

[see also 2025 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019]

1. The Substance
   Coralie Fargeat
2. Anora
   Sean Baker
3. Dune: Part Two
   Denis Villeneuve
4. The Brutalist
   Brady Corbet
5. Last Summer
   Catherine Breillat
6. Close Your Eyes
   Víctor Erice
7. La chimera
   Alice Rohrwacher
8. Conclave
   Edward Berger
9. Challengers
   Luca Guadagnino
10. A Complete Unknown
    James Mangold
11. Love Lies Bleeding
    Rose Glass

Additional films this year I admired or loved

• Hard Truths
  Mike Leigh
• Juror #2
  Clint Eastwood
• A Different Man
  Aaron Schimberg
• Babygirl
  Halina Reijn
• Civil War
  Alex Garland
• Evil Does Not Exist
  Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
• The Apprentice
  Ali Abbasi
• Kinds of Kindness
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig
  Mohammad Rasoulof
• Io capitano
  Matteo Garrone
• Sasquatch Sunset
  David Zellner and Nathan Zellner
• Queer
  Luca Guadagnino
• The Beast
  Bertrand Bonello
• The Room Next Door
  Pedro Almodóvar
• Dìdi
  Sean Wang
• Emilia Pérez
  Jacques Audiard
• About Dry Grasses
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• The Goldman Case
  Cédric Kahn
• The Settlers
  Felipe Gálvez Haberle
• How to Have Sex
  Molly Manning Walker
• Longlegs
  Osgood Perkins
• Hit Man
  Richard Linklater
• Woman of the Hour
  Anna Kendrick
• Coup de Chance
  Woody Allen
• Late Night with the Devil
  Colin Cairnes & Cameron Cairnes
• The Animal Kingdom
  Thomas Cailley
• A Real Pain
  Jesse Eisenberg
• Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
  Radu Jude
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
  Wes Ball
• Smile 2
  Parker Finn
• Heretic
  Scott Beck and Bryan Woods