I collected over 17 lists of the Best Movies/Films of 2024 from the Internet, magazines and newspapers and combined them into one meta-list. Here are the results: all the movies on three or more of the original source lists, organized by rank (that is, with the movies on the most lists at the top). In parentheses is the country (or countries) where the film was produced, and the director’s name(s).
PLEASE NOTE: These are not my personal opinions. I have not seen all these movies. But if I have seen a film, I have included my 1-10 rating.
On 17 Lists
Anora (US, Sean Baker) (9/10)
On 15 Lists
Nickel Boys (US, RaMell Ross)
On 14 Lists
Green Border (Poland/Czech Republic/France/Belgium, Agnieszka Holland)
On 13 Lists
I Saw the TV Glow (US, Jane Schoenbrun) (9/10)
No Other Land (Palestine/Norway, Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor & Hamdan Ballal)
On 12 Lists
All We Imagine as Light (India/France/Netherlands/Luxembourg, Payal Kapadia)
Evil Does Not Exist (Japan, Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
On 11 Lists
Challengers (US, Luca Guadagnino) (7/10)
On 10 Lists
Conclave (UK/US, Edward Berger) (7/10)
Dahomey (France/Senegal/Benin, Mati Diop)
Hard Truths (UK/Spain, Mike Leigh)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Iran/Germany/France, Mohammad Rasoulof)
On 9 Lists
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World (Romania/Croatia/France/Luxembourg, Radu Jude)
Dune: Part Two (US, Denis Villeneuve) (6/10)
La Chimera (Italy/France/Switzerland, Alice Rohrwacher)
On 8 Lists
A Real Pain (US/Poland, Jesse Eisenberg) (8/10)
Janet Planet (US, Annie Baker)
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat (Belgium/France/Netherlands, Johan Grimonprez)
On 7 Lists
The Brutalist (US/UK/Hungary, Brady Corbet)
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (Australia/US, George Miller)
Love Lies Bleeding (UK/US, Rose Glass)
The Substance (France/UK/US, Coralie Fargeat) (7/10)
Flow (Belgium/France/Latvia, Gints Zilbalodis)
Hit Man (US, Richard Linklater) (7/10)
On 6 Lists
Blitz (UK/US, Steve McQueen)
Juror #2 (US, Clint Eastwood)
Rebel Ridge (US, Jeremy Saulnier)
On 5 Lists
A Different Man (US, Aaron Schimberg)
Civil War (UK/US, Alex Garland)
Close Your Eyes (Spain/Argentina, Victor Erice)
Daughters (US, Natalie Rae & Angela Patton)
The Fall Guy (US, David Leitch) (6/10)
Good One (US, India Donaldson)
His Three Daughters (US, Azazel Jacobs) (8/10)
Hundreds of Beavers (US, Mike Cheslik) (5/10)
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Vietnam/Singapore/France/Spain, Phạm Thiên Ân)
The Taste of Things (France, Trần Anh Hùng)
The Room Next Door (Spain, Pedro Almodóvar)
The Wild Robot (US, Chris Sanders)
Universal Language (Canada, Matthew Rankin)
Will & Harper (US, Josh Greenbaum)
On 4 Lists
About Dry Grasses (Turkey/France/Germany/Sweden/Qatar, Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
The Beast (France/Canada, Bertrand Bonello)
Between the Temples (US, Nathan Silver)
Emilia Pérez (Belgium/France, Jacques Audiard)
How to Have Sex (UK/Greece/Belgium, Molly Manning Walker)
Io Capitano (Italy/Belgium/France, Matteo Garrone)
Megalopolis (US, Francis Ford Coppola)
Perfect Days (Japan/Germany, Wim Wenders)
Pictures of Ghosts (Brazil, Kleber Mendonça Filho)
On 3 Lists
The Delinquents (Argentina/Brazil/Chile/Luxembourg, Rodrigo Moreno)
The End We Start From (UK, Mahalia Belo)
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (US, Joanna Arnow)
Four Daughters (France/Germany/Tunisia/Saudi Arabia, Kaouther Ben Hania)
Ghostlight (US, Kelly O’Sullivan & Alex Thompson)
The Goldman Case (France, Cédric Kahn)
Heretic (US, Scott Beck & Bryan Woods) (7/10)
Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (Italy/France/Germany, Marco Bellocchio)
Kneecap (Ireland/UK, Rich Peppiat)
Last Summer (France, Catherine Breillat)
The Outrun (Germany/UK, Nora Fingscheidt) (8/10)
Priscilla (US, Sofia Coppola)
The Promised Land (Denmark/Germany/Sweden, Nikolaj Arcel)
Red Rooms (Canada, Pascal Plante)
Robot Dreams (Spain/France, Pablo Berger)
Sing Sing (US, Greg Kwedar)
Small Things Like These (Ireland/Belgium, Tim Mielants)
Sugarcane (US/Canada, Julian Brave NoiseCat & Emily Kassie)
Thelma (US, Josh Margolin)
Tótem (Mexico/Denmark/France, Lila Avilés)
Wicked (US, Jon M. Chu)