My favorite 20 BEST FILMS of 2024 (in alphabetical order):
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT
Payal Kapadia (India)
ANORA
Sean Baker (US)
THE BRUTALIST
Brady Corbet (US)
CAUGHT BY THE TIDES
风流一代
Jia Zhangke (China)
CHALLENGERS
Luca Guadagnino (US)
LA CHIMERA
Alice Rohrwacher (Italy)
クラウド
Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
James Mangold (US)
THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
Le Compte de Monte-Cristo
Alexandre de la Pantellière & Matthieu Delaporte (France)
A DIFFERENT MAN
Aaron Schimberg (US)
EMILIA PEREZ
Jacques Audiard (France)
THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE
Magnus von Horn (Denmark)
GRAND TOUR
Miguel Gomes (Portugal)
KNEECAP
Rich Peppiatt (Ireland)
LIFE
Hayat
Zeki Demirkubuz (Turkey)
MEMOIR OF A SNAIL
Adam Elliot (Australia)
MUSIC
Angela Schanelec (Germany)
QUEER
Luca Guadagnino (US)
SEBASTIAN
Mikko Mäkelä (UK)
THE SUBSTANCE
Coralie Fargeat (France/US)
