Pretty obvious that most in this forum hate or refuse to participate in Worst of lists Or most of you are terrible remembering what you watched that sucked.

Okay, so let's do a Best of/Favorites lists. And you don't have to relegate this to stuffy "Prestige" movies.

Remember, these are movies released in the 2024 calendar year, not movies you saw for the 1st time in 2024.

Again, all opinions here are subjective.

If your memory sucks, here is a list of everything by month that came out in 2024
https://www.firstshowing.net/schedule2024/


My List:

Dune Part 2
Civil War
Bad Boys: Ride or Die - Just a fun summer movie.
Challengers - This is definitely not for everyone, but I really liked how different it was as a sports movie.
Inside Out 2
A Quiet Place Day 1: Good prequel
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F - Just a fun return to these characters
Deadpool and Wolverine
Transformers One - Not many saw this, but this was by far one of the best if not the best of the Transformers movies
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve story - A really well done and heartbreaking documentary
The Wild Robot - A really well done animated movie that didn't get much chatter
Amber Alert - Pretty suspenseful movie about a kidnapping
Saturday Night
Smile 2 - Normally I would not put a horror movie in my favorites, but Naomi Scott was so good in this.
Juror #2 - An excellent 90s style courtroom thriller

Here's what I have so far, but there's a lot left to see...

1. Dune: Part 2
2. Oddity
3. Heretic
4. The Substance
5. In a Violent Nature
6. Anora
7. A Quiet Place: Day One
8. A Real Pain
9. Conclave
10. Joker: Folie a Deux

Here’s my current list though I’m going to try and sneak in another 5 or so highly rated 2024 films before the month is out so may update it

1- Wicked
2 - Strange Darling
3- The Wild Robot
4 - We Live in Time
5 - Inside Out 2
6 - Furiosa
7 - The Substance
8 - Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
9 - Dune Part 2
10 - Snack Shack

Most pleasant surprise: Beverly Hills Cop Axel F
Biggest disappointment: Joker 2 or Deadpool & Wolverine
Favorite first time watches: Blue Collar, Modern Romance, What We Do in the Shadows

Just from the stuff that I've actually seen in theaters in no particular order:



Furiosa
Dune Pt. 2
Alien: Romulous
Rebel Moon Parts I & II Director's Cuts
Horizon
Quiet Place 3
Longlegs
Werewolves


I'm sure there are and will be more. I know Nosferatu will be there - that one is just a given.

La Roy, Texas
Abigail

I Saw the TV Glow
Longlegs
Didi
Wicked
Love Lies Bleeding
Alien: Romulus

Favorite First Time Watches this Year



So far:

"Conclave"
"Dune: Part Two"
"The Substance"
"The First Omen"
"Wicked Little Letters"
"Civil War"
"Thelma"
"A Quiet Place: Day One"
"Anora"
"Alien: Romulus"
"Blitz"
"The Order"
"Small Things Like These"
"The Wild Robot"

A Quiet Place: Day One
Abigail
Alien: Romulus
Civil War
Deadpool and Wolverine
Dune: Part Two
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
My Old Ass
Red One
The Wild Robot
Twisters
We Live in Time

Forgot to add Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Wicked
Dune Part 2
Conclave
My Old Ass
Deadpool & Wolverine

First time watches:

The Teacher's Lounge (2023)
Samurai Wolf (1966)
Ennio (2021)
Small Change (1976)
No Reason (2010)
Happy End (1967)
Soldier of Orange (1977)
Being Two isn't Easy (1962)
We Are The Best! (2013)
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)

Didn't see many new movies this year so here's a condensed list of 5:

Alien: Romulus
A Quiet Place: Day 1
Smile 2
Dune 2
Twisters

In order of release date:
Civil War
Challengers
Furiosa
Kinda of Kindness
Longlegs
Cuckoo
Strange Darling
The Substance
Smile 2
Heretic
Anora
Still need to see: Babygirl, Nosferatu, The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown, Nickel Boys

Add this to my list. Outstanding film.

Anora
Challengers
Civil War
Conclave
Didi
A Different Man
Dune: Part Two
Juror #2
Kneecap
Problemista
A Real Pain
Strange Darling
The Substance

Honorable Mention:
The Brutalist (the first half) -- the first half is way stronger than the second half
Hit Man -- this was on my 2023 list as this is when I saw it. This had buzz on it for a year through festival season and was squandered with a Netflix release
Love Lies Bleeding

Happy to see Civil War on lots of your lists. Definitely in my top 3 for the year and probably #1.

I haven't seen enough new movies to really have a list but I would like to mention Riddle of Fire. It had a limited theatrical and festival run last Spring but it's worth watching if you haven't seen it. Vinegar Syndrome released the bluray and it's available digitally as well.

Favorite Films of 2024

1, I Saw The TV Glow
2. Kneecap
3. Dune: Part Two
4. Perfect Days
5. Anora
6. Sometimes I Think About Dying
7. The Substance
8. His Three Daughters
9. Strange Darling
10. Le Vourdalak

Abigail
Terrifier 3
Furiosa
Smile 2
Longlegs
Alien: Romulus

The only other film from 2024 that I saw was Dune 2 and I am starting to nod off just from thinking about it.

(in no particular order)
Anora
Challengers
Juror #2
BHC: Axel F
Kinds of Kindness
The Apprentice
A Different Man
Abigail
Sing Sing
Carry-On
The Bikeriders
Small Things Like These
Blink Twice
Strange Darling

Did the "Rank 'em as you see 'em" thread supplant this tradition?

Here are my ten best of 2024:

#1 and #2 are interchangeable: Thelma / Civil War
3: Godzilla Minus One
4: Furiosa
5. Prey
6. Dune: Part Two
7. Late Night With the Devil
8. Hundreds of Beavers
9. The first act of Heretic
10. Rebel Ridge (right up to the ending)
Edit: I clumsily pulled Prey from the list of releases, not realizing it was a different movie. Slide everything up one, and choose any one of my alternates! And I goofed Godzilla Minus One (saw the November re-release on the schedule) . . . I suck at this. I was smart enough (but disappointed) to leave off Zone of Interest as I knew that was technically a 2023 that I could not see until 2024.

Runners up:
The First Omen (hearing the filmmakers talk about this on a podcast elevated my opinion of it)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Nosferatu
Abigail (this was so much fun, but would have been NEXT LEVEL had the trailers not given away the premise)

Missed and want to see: Saturday Night, Cuckoo, Anora, The Brutalist, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

Most disappointing: Alien Romulus

https://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk...es-2024-a.html

These 14 films were the best 2024 releases I saw this year (Listed in chronological order):

Love Lies Bleeding (2024) D: Rose Glass
Civil War (2024) D: Alex Garland
Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World (2024) D: Radu Jude
The King Tide (2024) D: Christian Sparkes
We Grown Now (2024) D: Minhal Baig
Kinds Of Kindness (2024) D: Yorgos Lanthimos
Last Summer (2024) D: Catherine Breillat
The Substance (2024) D: Coralie Fargeat
Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) D: Todd Philips
A Different Man (2024) D: Aaron Schimberg
Universal Language (2024) D: Matthew Rankin
Anora (2024) D: Seas Baker
Flow (2024) D: Glints Zilbalodis
Dìdi (2024) D: Sean Wang

Honorable Mentions:
Drive-Away Dolls (2024) D: Ethan Coen
Chicken For Linda! (2024) D: Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach
Trap (2024) D: M. Night Shyamalan
Kneecap (2024) D: Rich Peppiatt
Coup! (2024) D: Austin Stark, Joseph Schuman
Megalopolis (2024) D: Francis Ford Coppola
Conclave (2024) D: Edward Berger
Heretic (2024) D: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Cukoo (2024) D: Tilman Singer

Here is the full list of the 86 2024 releases I saw this year to make my choices from:

While there were plenty movies I liked in 2024, this was a down year for me overall. Not a lot of upper tier favorites, although there are a few biggies like The Brutalist and Nosferatu that I have yet to see. Here's the list as it stands now. It's mostly in order, but after the first 3 or 4, it all gets a little blurry. Some of these are technically 2023 films, but didn't get a wide release until 2024.

1. Anora
2. Evil Does Not Exist
3. Red Rooms
4. Rebel Ridge
5. Strange Darling
6. Dune: Part Two
7. Civil War
8. The Bikeriders
9. Hit Man
10. Juror #2

I also want to give a shout out to The Beekeeper and Trap. "Junk cinema" at it's best. I have a hard time relating to anyone who can't have fun with these (which I guess is most of the members here?). Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger was another personal highlight. It's not much more than Martin Scorsese talking for 2+ hours about how much he loves P&P, but as someone who loves both P&P and listening to Scorsese talk about movies, it was right in my wheelhouse.

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Is this the DTV movie where Ryan Phillippe and Emile Hirsch fight a lion? Or the Predator movie that came out a couple of years ago? Something else? I'm confused.

Ahh . . . snap. I was going through the list of releases for the year and pulled the title out. I thought "I could have sworn that was a few years ago, but time is funny anymore."

It is the Predator movie . . . I will update. Thank you for the catch!

(Thank you to the mod who merged this and pointed me in the right direction!)

I'm not seeing Godzilla Minus One popping up on anybody else's lists . . . did I screw that one up, too? Edit: I did. I saw it in December of 2023.