Year-End Lists

Madeline Ostdick: Best Films of 2024, as submitted to the Film Comment Poll

1. Youth (Hard Times)
   Wang Bing
2. Hard Truths
   Mike Leigh
3. La chimera
   Alice Rohrwacher
4. Evil Does Not Exist
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
5. Queer
   Luca Guadagnino
6. Challengers
   Luca Guadagnino
7. Love Lies Bleeding
   Rose Glass
8. No Other Land
   Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
9. Rebel Ridge
   Jeremy Saulnier
10. The Brutalist
    Brady Corbet
11. Hit Man
    Richard Linklater
12. Dahomey
    Mati Diop
13. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
    Mohammad Rasoulof
14. I Saw the TV Glow
    Jane Schoenbrun
15. Juror #2
    Clint Eastwood
16. The Bikeriders
    Jeff Nichols
17. Smile 2
    Parker Finn
18. Rumours
    Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson
19. The Room Next Door
    Pedro Almodóvar
20. Thelma
    Josh Margolin