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And here it is:

TSPDT's 51 Most Critically-Acclaimed Films of 2024 (Based only on 2024 end-of-year ballots)

1. ANORA Sean Baker
2. ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT Payal Kapadia
3. DAHOMEY Mati Diop
4. LA CHIMERA Alice Rohrwacher
5. DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD Radu Jude
6. NO OTHER LAND Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal & Rachel Szor
7. EVIL DOES NOT EXIST Ryusuke Hamaguchi
8. NICKEL BOYS RaMell Ross
9. THE SUBSTANCE Coralie Fargeat
10. HARD TRUTHS Mike Leigh
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11. I SAW THE TV GLOW Jane Schoenbrun
12. CHALLENGERS Luca Guadagnino
13. CAUGHT BY THE TIDES Jia Zhangke
14. GRAND TOUR Miguel Gomes
15. THE BEAST Bertrand Bonello
15. MISÉRICORDE Alain Guiraudie
17. THE BRUTALIST Brady Corbet
17. JANET PLANET Annie Baker
19. AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE Albert Serra
20. JUROR #2 Clint Eastwood
20. MEGALOPOLIS Francis Ford Coppola
22. LAST SUMMER Catherine Breillat
23. LOVE LIES BLEEDING Rose Glass
24. SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D'ETAT Johan Grimonprez
25. A DIFFERENT MAN Aaron Schimberg
25. THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG Mohammad Rasoulof
27. CLOSE YOUR EYES Víctor Erice
27. EMILIA PÉREZ Jacques Audiard
29. FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA George Miller
29. A TRAVELER'S NEEDS Hong Sang-soo
31. THE ROOM NEXT DOOR Pedro Almodóvar
32. HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT Alexander Horwath
33. THE ZONE OF INTEREST Jonathan Glazer
34. CONCLAVE Edward Berger
34. A FIDAI FILM Kamal Aljafari
36. IT'S NOT ME Leos Carax
37. BY THE STREAM Hong Sang-soo
38. THE HUMAN SURGE 3 Eduardo Williams
38. UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE Matthew Rankin
40. PERFECT DAYS Wim Wenders
41. CIVIL WAR Alex Garland
41. DUNE: PART TWO Denis Villeneuve
43. FLOW Gints Zilbalodis
43. HERE Bas Devos
45. PEPE Nelson Carlos de Los Santos Arias
46. HIT MAN Richard Linklater
46. THE OTHER WAY AROUND Jonás Trueba
46. SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW, SOMETHING BORROWED Hernán Rosselli
49. ABOUT DRY GRASSES Nuri Bilge Ceylan
49. GREEN BORDER Agnieszka Holland
49. QUEER Luca Guadagnino

I know it's a little bit early in the year still, but I'm gonna post my full draft:


1. Dune: Part Two
2. Anora
3. The Brutalist
4. Wicked
5. Challengers
6. The Substance
7. Conclave
8. Emilia Pérez
9. The Wild Robot
10. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

11. All We Imagine As Light
12. Inside Out 2
13. Deadpool & Wolverine
14. Nosferatu
15. Flow
16. Nickel Boys
17. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
18. I’m Still Here
19. Memoir of a Snail
20. Look Back

21. A Real Pain
22. A Complete Unknown
23. Hard Truths
24. Kneecap
25. Civil War
26. I Saw the TV Glow
27. No Other Land
28. Babygirl
29. Gladiator II
30. A Different Man

31. The Room Next Door
32. Queer
33. Dahomey
34. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
35. Alien: Romulus
36. September 5
37. Juror #2
38. Vermiglio
39. The Girl with the Needle
40. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

41. Longlegs
42. Moana 2
43. Kinds of Kindness
44. The Fall Guy
45. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
46. Love Lies Bleeding
47. Twisters
48. Blitz
49. Heretic
50. Maria

51. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
52. Despicable Me 4
53. Kung Fu Panda 4
54. The Apprentice
55. Venom: The Last Dance
56. Sonic the Hedgehog 3
57. Dìdi
58. Trap
59. Smile 2
60. Terrifer 3

61. Monkey Man
62. Transformers One
63. The Piano Lesson
64. Mufasa: The Lion King
65. Joker: Folie à Deux
66. Megalopolis
67. Unfrosted
68. Kraven the Hunter
69. Borderlands
70. Madame Web

*2023/22 films released in 2024: Aggro Dr1ft, The Beast, Close Your Eyes, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Evil Does Not Exist, Green Border, Hit Man, Hundreds of Beavers, Janet Planet, La Chimera, Last Summer, Late Night with the Devil, Mars Express, The People’s Joker, Problemista, Sing Sing, Strange Darling

MEGALOPOLIS

Sherick wrote: Sun Feb 02, 2025 12:53 pmMEGALOPOLIS

I am absolutely shocked how high it ranked on the list...I guess all the critics who trashed it back at CANNES decided to put it on their year-end lists or something???

They saw the genius the uneducated masses were blind to.

So, where will Ne Zha 2 rank?

If we agree on having, say, Inside Out 2 in the top 5 for 2024 than I see Ne Zha 2 making the top 5 for 2025. Dubrow is opposed to it, Man and I support it in case of Inside Out 2.

We'll just have to wait and see how competitive of a year 2025 is I guess.

True, I thought it was a late 2024 film. Now I'm even more surprised at its grossing.

Oh absolutely, you might as well call it a lock for next year.

1. Dune: Part Two - Denis Villeneuve
2. Anora - Sean Baker
3. Wicked - Jon M. Chu
4. Inside Out 2 - Kelsey Mann
5. Challengers - Luca Guadagnino
6. The Substance - Coralie Fargeat
7. The Brutalist - Brady Corbet
8. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga - George Miller
9. Conclave - Edward Berger
10. The Wild Robot - Chris Sanders

11. All We Imagine As Light - Payal Kapadia
12. I’m Still Here - Walter Salles
13. Deadpool & Wolverine - Shawn Levy
14. Nosferatu - Robert Eggers
15. Nickel Boys - RaMell Ross
16. Flow - Gints Zilbalodis
17. The Seed of the Sacred Fig - Mohammad Rasoulof
18. Emilia Pérez - Jacques Audiard
19. Gladiator II - Ridley Scott
20. Civil War - Alex Garland