Year-End Lists

Slant Magazine: The 25 Best Films of 2024

1. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
   Radu Jude
2. The Beast
   Bertrand Bonello
3. Hard Truths
   Mike Leigh
4. Close Your Eyes
   Víctor Erice
5. The Brutalist
   Brady Corbet
6. Last Summer
   Catherine Breillat
7. Evil Does Not Exist
   Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
8. I Saw the TV Glow
   Jane Schoenbrun
9. Chime
   Kiyoshi Kurosawa
10. A Different Man
    Aaron Schimberg
11. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
    Johan Grimonprez
12. Janet Planet
    Annie Baker
13. Challengers
    Luca Guadagnino
14. Between the Temples
    Nathan Silver
15. Nickel Boys
    RaMell Ross
16. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
    Phạm Thiên Ân
17. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
    Mohammad Rasoulof
18. Anora
    Sean Baker
19. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
    George Miller
20. Pictures of Ghosts
    Kleber Mendonça Filho
21. Here
    Robert Zemeckis
22. Slow
    Marija Kavtaradzė
23. Juror #2
    Clint Eastwood
24. Hit Man
    Richard Linklater
25. A Real Pain
    Jesse Eisenberg

Our Runners-Up

• Smile 2
  Parker Finn
• Aggro Dr1ft
  Harmony Korine
• Red Rooms
  Pascal Plante
• Hundreds of Beavers
  Mike Cheslik
• All We Imagine as Light
  Payal Kapadia
• Universal Language
  Matthew Rankin
• Ghostlight
  Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson
• The Room Next Door
  Pedro Almodóvar
• The Human Surge 3
  Eduardo Williams
• How to Have Sex
  Molly Manning Walker
• Eureka
  Lisandro Alonso
• Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
  Tyler Thomas Taormina
• Megalopolis
  Francis Ford Coppola
• Dahomey
  Mati Diop
• Oh, Canada
  Paul Schrader
• The Settlers
  Felipe Gálvez Haberle
• Civil War
  Alex Garland
• Good One
  India Donaldson
• In Our Day
  Hong Sang-soo
• The Substance
  Coralie Fargeat
• I'm Still Here
  Walter Salles
• Perfect Days
  Wim Wenders
• Dune: Part Two
  Denis Villeneuve
• No Other Land
  Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
• Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara
  Marco Bellocchio