Year-End Lists

Nicolas Rapold: Best Films of 2024, as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll, listed alphabetically

• All We Imagine as Light
  Payal Kapadia
• Anora
  Sean Baker
• The Beast
  Bertrand Bonello
• Dahomey
  Mati Diop
• Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
  Radu Jude
• Green Border
  Agnieszka Holland
• Last Summer
  Catherine Breillat
• My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
  Julia Loktev
• Nickel Boys
  RaMell Ross
• No Other Land
  Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor

Twenty More

• Evil Does Not Exist
  Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
• Babygirl
  Halina Reijn
• The Room Next Door
  Pedro Almodóvar
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig
  Mohammad Rasoulof
• A Real Pain
  Jesse Eisenberg
• Hard Truths
  Mike Leigh
• Janet Planet
  Annie Baker
• Pictures of Ghosts
  Kleber Mendonça Filho
• Hit Man
  Richard Linklater
• God Save Texas: Hometown Prison
  Richard Linklater
• Youth (Hard Times)
  Wang Bing
• On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
  Rungano Nyoni
• How to Have Sex
  Molly Manning Walker
• Close Your Eyes
  Víctor Erice
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
  George Miller
• Between the Temples
  Nathan Silver
• In Our Day
  Hong Sang-soo
• The Tuba Thieves
  Alison O'Daniel
• The Brutalist
  Brady Corbet
• Conclave
  Edward Berger