The Best Movies of 2024 | Chris Lambert

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The best movies of 2024

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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 1/12/25

Latest additions: Better Man | Nickel Boys | A Complete Unknown | Nosferatu | Babygirl

Note: Each tier is sorted alphabetically

My Favorites

  1. A Complete Unknown
  2. Dune: Part Two
  3. Nickel Boys
  4. The Substance
  5. Trap

Wow

  1. Anora
  2. Better Man
  3. Challengers

Impressive

  1. Deadpool & Wolverine
  2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
  3. MaXXXine
  4. Queer
  5. The Brutalist
  6. Transformers One

Enjoyable

  1. Babygirl
  2. Heretic
  3. Hit Man
  4. Kneecap
  5. Nosferatu
  6. Saturday Night
  7. Smile 2

Positives 

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

Neutral 

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

Almost 

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

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
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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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I have a feeling Twisters will end up in your “My Favorites” tier soon. A great blockbuster that reminded me of the late 90’s early 2000’s.

Glen Powell is also a purebred movie star.

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