{"id":24920,"date":"2024-12-31T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/?p=24920"},"modified":"2025-10-13T13:59:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:59:03","slug":"top-10-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/2024\/12\/top-10-of-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

*Click on the ‘Lists & Logs’ tab to see lists from previous years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2024 (world premiere\/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Baby Invasion (Harmony Korine)<\/li>\n
  2. The Periphery of the Base (Zhou Tao)<\/li>\n
  3. Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)<\/li>\n
  4. Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)<\/li>\n
  5. Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra)<\/li>\n
  6. DIRECT ACTION (Ben Russell & Guillaume Cailleau)<\/li>\n
  7. Here (Robert Zemeckis)<\/li>\n
  8. Chime (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)<\/li>\n
  9. The Invisible Zoo (Romuald Karmakar)<\/li>\n
  10. The Adamant Girl (P.S. Vinothraj)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Polls Top 10<\/span><\/strong> (Eligible titles [will] appear here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. AGGRO DR1FT (2023, Harmony Korine)<\/li>\n
    2. Megalopolis (2024, Francis Ford Coppola)<\/li>\n
    3. Coma (2022, Bertrand Bonello)<\/li>\n
    4. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More (Wes Anderson)<\/li>\n
    5. The Natural History of Destruction (2022, Sergei Loznitsa)<\/li>\n
    6. We Had the Day Bonsoir (2022, Narimane Mari)<\/li>\n
    7. A Prince (2023, Pierre Creton)<\/li>\n
    8. The Dream and the Radio (2022, Renaud Despr\u00e9s-Larose & Ana Tapia Rousiouk)<\/li>\n
    9. Fairytale (2022, Aleksandr Sokurov)<\/li>\n
    10. Close Your Eyes (2023, V\u00edctor Erice)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

       <\/p>\n

      My Top 10 “Oldies”<\/span><\/strong> (first-time viewings of films made before 2010)<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. Ruskin (1975, Robert Beavers)<\/li>\n
      2. Near Orou\u00ebt (1971, Jacques Rozier)<\/li>\n
      3. Time of Maturity (1976, Sohrab Shahid Saless)<\/li>\n
      4. Nathalie Granger (1972, Marguerite Duras)<\/li>\n
      5. The Trouble with Harry (1955, Alfred Hitchcock)<\/li>\n
      6. Live Flesh (1997, Pedro Almod\u00f3var)<\/li>\n
      7. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983, Nagisa Oshima)<\/li>\n
      8. Destroy, She Said (1969, Marguerite Duras)<\/li>\n
      9. Taboo (1999, Nagisa Oshima)<\/li>\n
      10. Invisible Days, or the Legend of the White Crocodiles [English Version] (1991, Eva Hiller)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

         <\/p>\n

        Other 2024 films I\u2019ve seen<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

          \n
        • A Traveler\u2019s Needs (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.7<\/li>\n
        • The Shrouds (David Cronenberg) \u2013 6.6<\/li>\n
        • Challengers (Luca Guadagnino) \u2013 6.5<\/li>\n
        • Anora (Sean Baker) \u2013 6.5<\/li>\n
        • Queer (Luca Guadagnino)\u00a0\u2013 6.4<\/li>\n
        • Between the Temples (Nathan Silver) \u2013 6.4<\/li>\n
        • Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)\u00a0\u2013 6.4<\/li>\n
        • Measures for a Funeral (Sofia Bohdanowicz) ~ 6.4<\/li>\n
        • By the Stream (Hong Sang-soo) \u2013 6.3<\/li>\n
        • Christmas Eve in Miller\u2019s Point (Tyler Taormina) \u2013 6.3<\/li>\n
        • bluish\u00a0(Lilith Kraxner & Milena Czernovsky)\u00a0\u2013 6.3<\/li>\n
        • Invention (Courtney Stephens) \u2013 6.2<\/li>\n
        • The Empire (Bruno Dumont) \u2013 6.2<\/li>\n
        • Abiding Nowhere (Tsai Ming-liang) \u2013 6.2<\/li>\n
        • Youth (Homecoming) (Wang Bing)\u00a0\u2013 6.2<\/li>\n
        • L\u00e1zaro at Night (Nicol\u00e1s Pereda)\u00a0\u2013 6.1<\/li>\n
        • You Burn Me (Mat\u00edas Pi\u00f1eiro) \u2013 6.0<\/li>\n
        • Nanacatepec (Elena Pardo & Azucena Losana) \u2013 6.0<\/li>\n
        • Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhang-ke) \u2013 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Seven Walks with Mark Brown (Pierre Creton & Vincent Barr\u00e9) \u2013 5.9<\/li>\n
        • 100,000,000,000,000 (Virgil Vernier) \u2013 5.9<\/li>\n
        • Shambhala (Min Bahadur Bham) \u2013 5.9<\/li>\n
        • exergue \u2014 on documenta 14 (Dimitris Athiridis) \u2013 5.8<\/li>\n
        • Juror #2 (Clint Eastwood) \u2013 5.8<\/li>\n
        • All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia) \u2013 5.8<\/li>\n
        • The Substance (Coralie Fargeat) \u2013 5.8<\/li>\n
        • Collective Monologue (Jessica Sarah Rinland)\u00a0\u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • Dahomey (Mati Diop) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • Cloud (Kiyoshia Kurosawa)\u00a0\u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • Cidade; Campo (Juliana Rojas) \u2013 5.7<\/li>\n
        • April (Dea Kulumbegashvili)\u00a0\u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • The Suit\u00a0(Heinz Emigholz)\u00a0\u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Viet and Nam (Minh Qu\u00fd Tr\u01b0\u01a1ng) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Black Dog (Guan Hu) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Favoriten (Ruth Beckermann) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Kinds of Kindness (Yorgos Lanthimos) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Fire of Wind (Marta Mateus) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Suspended Time (Olivier Assayas) \u2013 5.6<\/li>\n
        • Who By Fire (Philippe Lesage) \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Universal Language (Matthew Rankin) \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Sleep #2 (Radu Jude) \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Jimmy\u00a0(Yashaddai Owens)\u00a0\u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • Emilia P\u00e9rez (Jacques Audiard) \u2013 5.5<\/li>\n
        • The Damned (Roberto Minervini) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Trap (M. Night Shyamalan)\u00a0\u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Pepe (Nelson Carlos De Los Santos Arias) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Black Tea (Abderrahmane Sissako) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • Filmlovers! (Arnaud Desplechin) \u2013 5.4<\/li>\n
        • A Different Man (Aaron Schimberg) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • The Other Way Around (Jon\u00e1s Trueba) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Nickel Boys\u00a0(RaMell Ross)\u00a0\u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Bogancloch (Ben Rivers) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Visiting Hours (Patricia Mazuy) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Matt and Mara (Kazik Radwanski) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Dreaming Dogs (Levin Peter & Elsa Kremser) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • The Diary of a Sky (Lawrence Abu Hamdan)\u00a0\u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • The Girl with the Needle (Magnus von Horn) \u2013 5.3<\/li>\n
        • Dreams (Dag Johan Haugerud) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • Rumours (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, & Galen Johnson) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • Eat the Night (Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • Motel Destino (Karim A\u00efnouz) \u2013 5.2<\/li>\n
        • The Room Next Door (Pedro Almod\u00f3var)\u00a0\u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • The Sparrow in the Chimney (Ramon Z\u00fcrcher) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • My Undesirable Friends: Part I \u2014 Last Air in Moscow (Julia Loktev)\u00a0\u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Rebel Ridge (Jeremy Saulnier) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Sleep with Your Eyes Open (Nele Wohlatz) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Eephus (Carson Lund) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • The Wrong Movie (Keren Cytter) \u2013 5.1<\/li>\n
        • Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes) \u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Oh, Canada (Paul Schrader) \u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Flow (Gints Zilbalodis) \u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Youth (Hard Times) (Wang Bing) \u2013 5.0<\/li>\n
        • Nightbitch (Marielle Heller)\u00a0\u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
        • This Life of Mine (Sophie Filli\u00e8res) \u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Drama 1882 (Wael Shawky)\u00a0\u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Architecton (Victor Kossakovsky) \u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Eight Postcards from Utopia (Radu Jude & Christian Ferencz-Flatz) \u2013 4.9<\/li>\n
        • Relay (David Mackenzie)\u00a0\u2013 4.8<\/li>\n
        • Diciannove (Giovanni Tortorici)\u00a0\u2013 4.8<\/li>\n
        • Pavements\u00a0(Alex Ross Perry)\u00a0\u2013 4.8<\/li>\n
        • Small Things Like These (Tim Mielants) \u2013 4.8<\/li>\n
        • The Second Act (Quentin Dupieux) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • The Fable (Raam Reddy) \u2013 4.7<\/li>\n
        • Death Will Come (Christoph Hochh\u00e4usler) \u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • Little, Big, and Far\u00a0(Jim Cohen)\u00a0\u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • It Doesn\u2019t Matter (Josh Mond) \u2013 4.6<\/li>\n
        • Happyend (Neo Sora)\u00a0\u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • When the Phone Rang (Iva Radivojevi\u0107) \u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • I Saw the TV Glow (Jane Schoenbrun) \u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • Beating Hearts (Gilles Lellouche) \u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Soi Cheang) \u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • Blue Sun Palace (Constance Tsang) \u2013 4.5<\/li>\n
        • No Other Land (Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, & Rachel Szor) \u2013 4.4<\/li>\n
        • Telepathic Letters (Edgar P\u00eara) \u2013 4.4<\/li>\n
        • Nothing in Its Place (Burak \u00c7evik) ~ 4.4<\/li>\n
        • A Family (Christine Angot) \u2013 4.4<\/li>\n
        • Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (George Miller) \u2013 4.3<\/li>\n
        • Twisters (Lee Isaac Chung) \u2013 4.3<\/li>\n
        • So Long (Guillaume Brac) \u2013 4.3<\/li>\n
        • Ivo (Eva Trobisch) \u2013 4.3<\/li>\n
        • Friendship (Andrew DeYoung) \u2013 4.2<\/li>\n
        • On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (Rungano Nyoni) \u2013 4.2<\/li>\n
        • All the Long Nights (Sh\u00f4 Miyake) \u2013 4.2<\/li>\n
        • Babygirl (Halina Reijn)\u00a0\u2013 4.1<\/li>\n
        • The End (Joshua Oppenheimer)\u00a0\u2013 4.1<\/li>\n
        • The Box Man (Gakuryu Ishii) \u2013 4.1<\/li>\n
        • An Unfinished Film (Lou Ye) \u2013 4.0<\/li>\n
        • Three Kilometers to the End of the World (Emanuel Parvu) \u2013 4.0<\/li>\n
        • It\u2019s Not Me (Leos Carax) \u2013 3.9<\/li>\n
        • The Brutalist (Brady Corbet)\u00a0\u2013 3.9<\/li>\n
        • Turn in the Wound (Abel Ferrara) \u2013 3.9<\/li>\n
        • Marcello Mio (Christophe Honor\u00e9) \u2013 3.8<\/li>\n
        • Wild Diamond (Agathe Riedinger) \u2013 3.8<\/li>\n
        • The Ballad of Suzanne C\u00e9saire (Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich)\u00a0\u2013 3.6<\/li>\n
        • Harvest (Athina Rachel Tsangari)\u00a0\u2013 3.5<\/li>\n
        • Stranger Eyes\u00a0(Siew Hua Yeo)\u00a0\u2013 3.5<\/li>\n
        • The Life of Chuck (Mike Flanagan)\u00a0\u2013 3.4<\/li>\n
        • The Apprentice (Ali Abbasi) \u2013 3.2<\/li>\n
        • The Human Hibernation (Anna Cornudella) \u2013 3.2<\/li>\n
        • The Most Precious of Cargoes (Michel Hazanavicius) \u2013 3.2<\/li>\n
        • La Cocina (Alonso Ruizpalacios) \u2013 3.0<\/li>\n
        • Bird (Andrea Arnold) \u2013 2.7<\/li>\n
        • Presence (Steven Soderbergh)\u00a0\u2013 2.4<\/li>\n
        • Parthenope (Paolo Sorrentino) \u2013 2.3<\/li>\n
        • Gazer (Ryan J. Sloan) \u2013 1.7<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          *Click on the ‘Lists & Logs’ tab to see lists from previous years. This list will be updated each time I see a film from 2024 (world premiere\/imdb date) that is better than at least one of the films already on the list. Baby Invasion (Harmony Korine) The Periphery of the Base (Zhou Tao) Megalopolis […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24920"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25546,"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24920\/revisions\/25546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}