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Sight and Sound’s 50 best films of 2024

Sight and Sound's annual round-up of the best films, as voted for by over 100 contributors, is as eclectic and unpredictable as it has ever been – reflecting a year of remarkable cinematic achievements, from arthouse blockbusters to small-scale heartbreakers. Read more

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  • All We Imagine as Light

    1

  • Anora

    2

  • La Chimera

    3

  • Dahomey

    4

  • Hard Truths

    5

  • Caught by the Tides

    6

  • Love Lies Bleeding

    7

  • The Substance

    8

  • No Other Land

    9

  • Nickel Boys

    10

  • I Saw the TV Glow

    11

  • Evil Does Not Exist

    12

  • Challengers

    13

  • Janet Planet

    14

  • The Zone of Interest

    15

  • Perfect Days

    16

  • Emilia Pérez

    17

  • Grand Tour

    18

  • Megalopolis

    19

  • The Brutalist

    20

  • A Different Man

    21

  • Close Your Eyes

    22

  • Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

    23

  • Henry Fonda for President

    24

  • Crossing

    25

  • Kneecap

    26

  • On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

    27

  • Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

    28

  • The Shrouds

    29

  • Universal Language

    30

  • Civil War

    31

  • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

    32

  • The Beast

    33

  • The Room Next Door

    34

  • The Taste of Things

    35

  • The Seed of the Sacred Fig

    36

  • Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

    37

  • Misericordia

    38

  • By the Stream

    39

  • About Dry Grasses

    40

  • Juror #2

    41

  • I'm Still Here

    42

  • The Holdovers

    43

  • Green Border

    44

  • Dune: Part Two

    45

  • Conclave

    46

  • Black Dog

    47

  • April

    48

  • All of Us Strangers

    49

  • Afternoons of Solitude

    50