Film 2024
An end-of-year summary of the best films I watched in 2024.
10 = Masterpiece
9 = Amazing
8 = Great
7 = Good
6 = Okay
5 = Mediocre
4 = Poor
3 = Bad
2 = Awful
1 = Unwatchable
highlighted = 8/10 or better (recommendation)
bold = new release (in 2024 or late-2023)
italic = seen before (rewatch)
The Best Films
- Poor Things (2023) – 10/10
- The Favourite (2018) – 10/10
- Ex Machina (2015) – 10/10
- Interstellar (2014) (rewatch) – 10/10
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) (rewatch) – 10/10
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994) (rewatch) – 10/10
- Dune: Part Two (2024) – 9/10
- Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) – 9/10
- Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) – 9/10
- Asteroid City (2023) – 9/10
- Nope (2022) – 9/10
- Pig (2021) – 9/10
- Once Upon A Time In... Hollywood (2019) (rewatch) – 9/10
- Apollo 11 (2019) (doc) – 9/10
- Hotel Mumbai (2018) – 9/10
- The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (2017) – 9/10
- Sicario (2015) (rewatch) – 9/10
- Gladiator (2000) (rewatch) – 9/10
- Traffic (2000) (rewatch) – 9/10
The Solid Recommendations
- Conclave (2024) – 8/10
- Heretic (2024) – 8/10
- Civil War (2024) – 8/10
- The Old Oak (2023) – 8/10
- Ferrari (2023) – 8/10
- Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) – 8/10
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023) – 8/10
- X (2022) – 8/10
- The Menu (2022) – 8/10
- A Man Called Otto (2022) – 8/10
- The Outfit (2022) – 8/10
- Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche (2022) (doc) – 8/10
- Dune: Part One (2021) (rewatch) – 8/10
- The French Dispatch (2021) – 8/10
- The Dig (2021) – 8/10
- 9/11: Inside the President's War Room (2021) (doc) – 8/10
- Just Mercy (2019) – 8/10
- Dirty God (2019) – 8/10
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) – 8/10
- The Little Stranger (2018) – 8/10
- Kursk (2018) – 8/10
- The Founder (2016) – 8/10
- The Light Between Oceans (2016) – 8/10
- The Lobster (2015) – 8/10
- Seven Psychopaths (2012) – 8/10
- We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011) – 8/10
- Red State (2011) (rewatch) – 8/10
- Layer Cake (2004) (rewatch) – 8/10
- Shaun of the Dead (2004) (rewatch) – 8/10
- Catch Me If You Can (2002) (rewatch) – 8/10
- The Beach (2000) (rewatch) – 8/10
- 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) (rewatch) – 8/10
- What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962) – 8/10
- The Man Between (1953) – 8/10
The Disappointments
- Gladiator 2 (2024) 5/10
- Trap (2024) 5/10
- The Creator (2023) 5/10
- Cocaine Bear (2023) 5/10
The Stinkers
- Maggie Moore(s) (2023) 4/10
- Poker Face (2022) 4/10
- Ambulance (2022) 4/10
- Gunpowder Milkshake (2021) 4/10
- The Commuter (2018) 4/10
- Zulu (1964) 4/10
The Full List
- The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone (1990) (Director’s Recut, 2020) 6/10
- Zulu (1964) 4/10
- The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017) 6/10
- Widows (2017) 6/10
- The Dig (2021) 8/10
- Reptile (2023) 6/10
- The Founder (2016) 8/10
- Traffic (2000) (rewatch) 9/10
- Promising Young Woman (2020) 6/10
- The Duke (2020) 6/10
- Gunpowder Milkshake (2021) 4/10
- The Men Who Stare At Goats (2009) 6/10
- Days of Thunder (1990) 6/10
- Green Zone (2010) 6/10
- X (2022) 8/10
- The Commuter (2018) 4/10
- Gorillas In The Mist (1988) 6/10
- The Killing Of A Sacred Deer (2017) 9/10
- Poor Things (2023) 10/10
- The Man Between (1953) 8/10
- Ex Machina (2015) 10/10
- Greed (2019) 6/10
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023) 8/10
- Layer Cake (2004) (rewatch) 8/10
- The Little Stranger (2018) 8/10
- The Favourite (2018) 10/10
- The Lobster (2015) 8/10
- The Light Between Oceans (2016) 8/10
- A Man Called Otto (2022) 8/10
- French Exit (2020) 6/10
- Operation Mincemeat (2021) 6/10
- Hotel Mumbai (2018) 9/10
- Maggie Moore(s) (2023) 4/10
- Poker Face (2022) 4/10
- Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) 9/10
- Sister Act (1992) (rewatch) 6/10
- Nope (2022) 9/10
- The Monuments Men (2014) 6/10
- The Outfit (2022) 8/10
- Ambulance (2022) 4/10
- Seven Psychopaths (2012) 8/10
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) 6/10
- The Card Counter (2021) 6/10
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) 8/10
- Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) 8/10
- Asteroid City (2023) 9/10
- Dog Soldiers (2002) 6/10
- Sicario (2015) (rewatch) 9/10
- Ferrari (2023) 8/10
- The Old Oak (2023) 8/10
- Cocaine Bear (2023) 5/10
- Apollo 11 (2019) (documentary) 9/10
- 9/11: Inside the President's War Room (2021) (documentary) 8/10
- Just Mercy (2019) 8/10
- The Mule (2018) 7/10
- Dune: Part One (2021) (rewatch) 8/10
- Dune: Part Two (2024) 9/10
- Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche (2022) (documentary) 8/10
- Pig (2021) 9/10
- Lost In Translation (2003) 6/10
- Red State (2011) (rewatch) 8/10
- Annihilation (2018) 6/10
- Once Upon A Time In... Hollywood (2019) (rewatch) 9/10
- Emily The Criminal (2022) 7/10
- Dirty God (2019) 8/10
- Draft Day (2014) 6/10
- Civil War (2024) 8/10
- 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) (rewatch) 8/10
- Hellboy (2004) 6/10
- Kursk (2018) 8/10
- We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011) 8/10
- Rush (2013) (rewatch) 7/10
- What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962) 8/10
- The Menu (2022) 8/10
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) (rewatch) 10/10
- The Creator (2023) 5/10
- Kinds of Kindness (2024) 6/10
- Longlegs (2024) 6/10
- Beverly Hills Cop (1984) (rewatch) 7/10
- Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) (rewatch) 7/10
- Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024) 6/10
- The Beach (2000) (rewatch) 8/10
- Trap (2024) 5/10
- Blink Twice (2024) 6/10
- Speak No Evil (2024) 7/10
- Interstellar (IMAX) (10th ann.) (2014) (rewatch) 10/10
- Wolfs (2024) 6/10
- Shaun of the Dead (20th ann.) (2004) (rewatch) 8/10
- Gladiator (2000) (rewatch) 9/10
- Arcadian (2024) 6/10
- Heretic (2024) 8/10
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994) (rewatch) 10/10
- The French Dispatch (2021) 8/10
- Daddio (2024) 6/10
- Spike Island (2012) 6/10
- Gladiator 2 (2024) 5/10
- The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) 7/10
- Conclave (2024) 8/10
- Wallace and Grommit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) 9/10
- Catch Me If You Can (2002) (rewatch) 8/10
- Next Goal Wins (2023) 7/10
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