Top 10 Films of 2024

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It's that time of year! You know, that time where I'm three months late with my favorite films of the previous year. The ironic part is the few movies that were stopping me from publishing this list due to their later release dates didn't even make it. Without further ado...

Honorable Mentions
These films held a top 10 spot at some point throughout the year before they were bumped off

A Quiet Place: Day One, Cuckoo, Deadpool vs Wolverine, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Blink Twice, Maxxine, The Outrun, Babes, Nosferatu

Bonus Pick:
This was technically a 2023 release, but it made huge waves in 2024 that I felt it deserved its own place.

Red Rooms
No movie got under my skin the way Red Rooms did. A movie I saw for the first time on an airplane screen. It's disturbing without showing any gore and may make you completely rethink how you consume true crime.

My Top 10 Films of 2024

10. Wicked Little Letters
*Saorise Ronan voice* WOMEN! I adore this charming little flick.

9. Kneecap
Again I say, I never expected to love a film about three blocks rapping in Irish, but here I am.

8. Late Night With The Devil
I fully admit I didn't expect this film to remain on my Top 10 as the year went on, but it did. It was just so clever and such a star performance by David Dastmalchian.

7. Anora
My list is full of star making turns apparently. Anora was the weird roadtrip comedy I didn't know I needed.

6. Babygirl
This film was just so unapologetic about female sexuality. I loved it. I loved that it didn't end in the cliched disaster that you think it would. 

5. The Substance
Another film I just haven't stopped thinking about since I've seen it. Stylish, smart, and Demi Moore's best performance ever. 

4. Conclave
After my first viewing of Conclave, I thought for sure this would be winning Best Picture, and it took me right up until the ceremony to accept that it wasn't going to. Still, it's a great and has some surprising representation in it. 

3. Sing Sing
It's criminal that Colman Domingo wasn't the front runner for Best Actor this year. Sing Sing packed SO much heart and I will never forgive A24 for fumbling its release so much.

2. A Real Pain
Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin were so perfect together in this film that you would think they were born to act opposite each other. I hope this isn't the last time we see that. To be honest, this was very close to being my #1. Some days it is. 

1. Dune: Part II
Denis Villeneuve's Dune films are top tier sci fi. My best friend and I joke often about how hard we both go for Dune despite never having read any of the novels and actively disliking all previous Dune on film (including your documentary, Jodorowsky!) I'm sure someone will try to gatekeep me, but I'm fine being a new age Dune fan. I was already there with Star Trek. 


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