The Best Movies of 2024 | Chris Lambert

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This is a live list where I rank the movies of 2024. If something isn’t on the list, I haven’t seen it. Leave your comments and we’ll talk. The movies within a category are in alphabetical order. I give a lot of weight to scope, scale, and depth. If a movie is higher than you expect, it probably did one or all of those things very well. If it’s lower, well, it probably frustrated me. Full thoughts are available on the all-time rankings page!

Updated 10/22/24

Latest additions: Saturday Night | Smile 2 | Terrifier 3 | Late Night with the Devil | Joker: Folie á Deux

Note: Each tier is sorted alphabetically

My Favorites

  1. Dune: Part Two
  2. The Substance
  3. Trap

Wow

  1. Challengers

Impressive

  1. Deadpool & Wolverine
  2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
  3. MaXXXine
  4. Transformers One

Enjoyable

  1. Alien: Romulus
  2. Hit Man
  3. Kneecap
  4. Saturday Night
  5. Smile 2

Positives 

  1. Abigail
  2. Blink Twice
  3. Civil War
  4. I Used to Be Funny
  5. Late Night with the Devil
  6. Strange Darling
  7. We Live in Time

Neutral 

  1. A Quiet Place: Day One
  2. Am I OK?
  3. I Saw the TV Glow
  4. Longlegs
  5. Megalopolis
  6. Speak No Evil
  7. Terrifier 3
  8. The Bikeriders
  9. Twisters

Almost 

  1. Bad Boys: Ride of Die
  2. Cuckoo
  3. Monkey Man
  4. The Fall Guy
  5. Under Paris

Not Quite

  1. Inside Out 2
  2. Kinds of Kindness

Not For Me

  1. Argylle
  2. Immaculate
  3. Joker: Folie á Deux
  4. Madame Web
  5. Mean Girls

Really Not For Me

  1. A Family Affair
  2. Despicable Me 4
  3. In a Violent Nature
Chris
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Chris Lambert is co-founder of Colossus. He writes about complex movie endings, narrative construction, and how movies connect to the psychology of our day-to-day lives.
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