Want to see a great movie? Here are the best films of 2024

35. "The Wild Robot": After crash-landing on a lush island, Roz (voiced by Lupita Nyong'o, center) becomes the adoptive parent of a gosling and loyal protector for a bunch of animals in the heartwarming animated adventure.

34. "Cuckoo": After an unwanted move to the Alps with her dad and stepmom, teenage Gretchen (Hunter Schafer, left) is stalked by a strange supernatural figure (Kalin Morrow) in the chillingly gonzo horror film.

33. "Rebel Ridge": Aaron Pierre stars as an ex-Marine who's railroaded by small-town Louisiana cops (including a villainous Don Johnson) and wreaks havoc in return in this two-fisted throwback action thriller.

32. "Perfect Days": Koji Yakusho (left, with Arisa Nakano) stars as a Tokyo toilet cleaner in a delightfully minimalist Japanese drama that celebrates a simple life and unlocks the complex personality of a quietly honorable man.

31. "The First Omen": Margaret (Nell Tiger Free, left) becomes protective of troubled orphan Carlita (Nicole Sorace) in the horror prequel, a relevant chapter that makes the 1970s franchise feel fresh again.

30. "Anora": Sean Baker's entertaining tragicomedy with a screwball center revolves around Ani (Mikey Madison), a sex worker who elopes in Vegas with the wealthy Vanya (Mark Eydelshteyn) but things get dicey when his Russian oligarch parents want the marriage annulled.

29. "The Book of Clarence": Looking to get himself out of trouble, Clarence (LaKeith Stanfield) presents himself as the "new messiah" in Jeymes Samuel's thoughtful and subversive take on the biblical resurrection story.

28. "My Old Ass": Tripping on mushrooms on her 18th birthday, Elliott (Maisy Stella, left) meets and seeks advice from her 39-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza) in a playful and emotional coming-of-age dramedy with multigenerational appeal.

27. "Late Night With the Devil": David Dastmalchian has a hell of a role in this retro horror flick, starring as a 1970s late-night TV host who brings on a supposedly possessed girl in a ratings gambit that spirals supernaturally out of control.

26. "Drive-Away Dolls": Geraldine Viswanathan (left) and Margaret Qualley play lesbian friends on a noir-spattered road trip in the goofball crime comedy, which nods to campy B-movies as well as 1960s psychedelia.

25. "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga": Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy) and Praetorian Jack (Tom Burke) pilot the mighty War Rig in George Miller's latest franchise installment, a satisfying revenge epic set in a gnarly landscape full of revving engines and bizarre personalities.

24. "Nosferatu": Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp) is a 19th-century woman who becomes the object of obsessive affection for a Transylvanian vampire in director Robert Eggers’ deliciously stylish horror remake.

23. "Heretic": Seemingly kind Englishman Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant) questions a pair of Mormon missionaries (Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East) about faith and their belief system before putting them through hell in the clever religious horror flick.

22. "Hit Man": Glen Powell has his most wide-ranging role to date as a nerdy philosophy professor who moonlights as a fake assassin and falls for a "client" wanting to off her hubby in Richard Linklater's irresistible noir comedy.

21. "Challengers": Luca Guadagnino's fierce, art-house spin on the sports movie centers on the love triangle between a tennis prodigy (Zendaya, center) and two doubles partners-turned-rivals (Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor).

20. "Love Lies Bleeding": A gym manager (Kristen Stewart, right) falls for an ambitious bodybuilder (Katy O'Brian) in a zesty retro mix of revenge flick, addiction narrative, body horror show and queer love story.

19. "Saturday Night": In the breakneck comedy, young TV producer Lorne Michaels (Gabriel LaBelle, left) tries to keep things from devolving into chaos 90 minutes before the first episode of "Saturday Night Live" goes to air in 1975.

18. "September 5": Rookie ABC Sports producer Geoff Mason (John Magaro, center) honchos coverage of the hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Olympics that takes place over 24 intense hours in the true-life journalism thriller.

17. "The Order": Based on a true story, the excellent white-knuckle crime thriller casts Jude Law as a world-weary FBI agent investigating a neo-Nazi terrorist group, their charismatic leader and plans for a dangerous revolution.

16. "Deadpool & Wolverine": Wolverine (Hugh Jackman, left) and Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) meet Dogpool and a variety of other colorful personalities while trying to save their worlds in the delightfully meta, gloriously crass Marvel buddy comedy.

15. "The Seed of the Sacred Fig": When his gun goes missing, a paranoid Iranian investigator (Missagh Zareh, center) imposes harsh rules on his daughters (Mahsa Rostami and Setareh Maleki), thinking one might be the culprit in the gripping political thriller.

14. "Nickel Boys": Director RaMell Ross' innovative drama tells its immersive tale from the first-person perspectives of Elwood (Ethan Herisse, left) and Turner (Brandon Wilson), who befriend one another at a brutal reform school in the Jim Crow South.

13. "Ghostlight": The tear-jerking dramedy stars Keith Kupferer (with Dolly De Leon) as an unhappy middle-aged construction worker still grieving the death of his teen son when he's recruited by an acting troupe putting on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."

12. "A Real Pain": Benji (Kieran Culkin, left) and David (Jesse Eisenberg, who also directs) are two estranged cousins exploring their Jewish roots while on a Holocaust tour in Poland in a moving and hilarious dramedy with a powerful narrative that sneaks up on you.

11. "Emilia Pérez": Emilia (Karla Sofía Gascón, left) tries to make up for past sins with the help of her lawyer Rita (Zoe Saldaña) in a wild mélange of noir crime thriller, redemption tale, deep character study, comedic melodrama and go-for-broke movie musical.

10. "The Piano Lesson": Siblings Berniece (Danielle Deadwyler) and Boy Willie (John David Washington) disagree strongly on whether to sell their family's prized heirloom piano in Malcolm Washington's nuanced take on the August Wilson play.

9. "The Substance": Demi Moore stars as a TV fitness celebrity who discovers a major downside to taking an experimental drug that promises to make her younger and more perfect in a gloriously demented body horror film that gleefully jumps off the tracks and keeps on going.

8. "A Different Man": Sebastian Stan (with Renate Reinsve) plays an aspiring actor who undergoes an experimental treatment to redo his face in a fabulously thought-provoking and searingly funny flick that digs into themes of identity, empathy and beauty with amusing eccentricity.

7. "Inside Out 2": Anxiety (voiced by Maya Hawke, center) takes control of Riley's emotions in the animated sequel. It's an amusing and profound effort packed with empathy, hope and a heap of metaphors that still understands the wonders and wrinkles of being a kid.

6. "Civil War": Acclaimed war photographer Lee (Kirsten Dunst, left) becomes a reluctant mentor for young Jessie (Cailee Spaeny) in Alex Garland's grounded, well-acted ode to the power of journalism and a visceral fireball of an anti-war movie.

5. "Dune: Part Two": Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and Chani (Zendaya) grow closer in the epic sci-fi sequel with staggering visuals, all the gigantic sandworms you’d ever want, and deep exploration of power, colonialism and religion.

4. "A Complete Unknown": The electric 1960s-set music biopic chronicles the early rise of Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet, with Elle Fanning), including his success as a songwriter and conflict with the folk establishment.

3. "Sing Sing: Jailed for a crime he didn't commit, Divine G (Colman Domingo, left) brings a hardened newcomer (Clarence Maclin) into the tight-knit theater group of inmates that gives him solace in the astounding prison drama.

2. "Conclave": Cardinals Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes, left) and Bellini (Stanley Tucci) are close friends whose relationship is tested in the film, a locked-room mystery, courtroom drama, detective tale and political thriller all in one searingly tense and timely narrative.