Our annual roundup of 10 of the best movies of the year is back! The rules are simple: every film was released in North America in 2024, and we can’t include movies that are currently screening in multiplexes (looking at you, Anora). But with around 500 films to draw from, let’s not get caught up in what’s missing; rather, enjoy what will in most cases be your last chance to catch these diverse, exciting, sexy, funny, challenging, transcendent, freaky, masterful movies on the big screen – the way nature intended.
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Challengers
Luca Guadagnino (Queer; Call Me By Your Name) snaps back into gear with this sexy, fun screwball comedy masquerading as a sports film. Frenemies Mike Faist and Josh O'Connor compete for the favours of Zendaya, on and off the tennis court.
The Monk and the Gun
A monk sends his disciple on a surprising mission in this gentle, joyful Bhutanese comedy offering shrewd reflections from a culture far-removed from our own.
About Dry Grasses
The latest from Turkish master Ceylan (The Wild Pear Tree) is a complex, multi-layered and ultimately lacerating portrait of an art teacher stuck in a rural backwater he can't wait to escape, accused of inappropriate behaviour by his favourite pupil.
Love Lies Bleeding
A pumped Kristen Stewart is our touchstone in this sexy queer neo-noir from Rose Glass (Saint Maud). Don't miss one of the wildest endings you will ever see.
I Saw the TV Glow
Two misfits are sucked into the deranged world of a supernatural TV show. Trans filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun taps into something deeply disquieting in ways that reverberate long after viewing.
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
Radu Jude takes two days in the life of a stressed Romanian p.a. and gives us an urgent, pissed off, sourly funny polemic on the state of late capitalism. Exploitation, discrimination and hypocrisy are his targets; dialectics are his dynamite.
Close Your Eyes
Twenty years after the film he was directing fell apart when the leading man disappeared, Miguel (Manolo Solo) agrees to reopen the mystery for a TV show... He needs the money, and he's ready for a reckoning. A late masterpiece from Victor Erice.
All We Imagine as Light
What Wong Kar-wai did for Hong Kong, Payal Kapadia does for Mumbai: the Cannes Grand Prix winner is a romantic heartbreaker about three nurses at different stages of life. It's a future classic.