Best movies of 2024 - post-Oscars update

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About a year ago I posted my list of the best movies of 2024 (really a total ranking of all the movies I watched); I mentioned my plan to post an updated list after the Oscars ceremony (which I consider to be the unofficial end of the season for watching 2024 movies), but I got busy that week, and then just never got around to it. Until now! They're divided into groups by my rating; an asterisk means I watched it streaming online instead of in a theater, and the ones I saw after my previous list are in bold. Stay tuned for my 2025 list coming soon, I promise!!

9/10 (great):

1. Flipside
2. Sometimes I Think About Dying
3. Challengers

   8/10 (really good):

4. Hundreds of Beavers
5. Flow
6. Riddle of Fire
7. Good One
8. How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
9. Dune: Part Two
10. Conclave
11. Red Rooms*
12. Rebel Ridge*
13. The Dead Don't Hurt
14. Knox Goes Away
15. Hard Truths
16. Nickel Boys
17. Heretic
18. Bird*
19. The Fall Guy
20. Hit Man
    
21. September 5
22. Touch
23. Nosferatu
24. Thelma
25. Wolfs
26. Daddio
27. Memoir of a Snail*
28. Brats*
29. Afraid
30. Porcelain War*

    7/10 (good):

31. Ghostlight
32. Janet Planet
33. Snack Shack
34. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin*
35. Evil Does Not Exist
36. The American Society of Magical Negroes
37. Dìdi (弟弟)
38. Anora
39. A Real Pain
40. The Room Next Door
41. A Complete Unknown
42. The Beekeeper
43. The Beast
44. It's What's Inside
45. Timestalker
46. Problemista
47. Daaaaaalí!
48. Jim Henson Idea Man*
49. Drive-Away Dolls
50. Meanwhile on Earth
51. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
52. The Instigators
53. Carry-On*
54. Rob Peace
55. Juror #2
56. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
57. I'm Still Here
58. Slingshot
59. My Old Ass
60. The Outrun
61. The Count of Monte Cristo
62. Wicked Little Letters
63. Self Reliance*
64. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
65. Saturday Night
66. Blitz
67. Piece by Piece
68. Elton John: Never Too Late*
69. Eno*
70. The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
71. I.S.S.
72. The Piano Lesson
73. Firebrand
74. Strange Darling
75. Late Night with the Devil*
76. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
77. Inside Out 2
78. Tuesday
79. Skincare
80. Deadpool & Wolverine
81. Here
82. The Girl with the Needle*
83. Babes
84. Seeking Mavis Beacon
85. Stormy*
86. Alien: Romulus
87. Y2K
88. Kiss the Future

    6/10 (pretty good):

89. Elevation
90. Lisa Frankenstein
91. Better Man
92. Civil War
93. Trap
94. Out of Darkness
95. 1992
96. The Watchers
97. The Last Showgirl
98. A Different Man
99. Unfrosted*
100. The Order
101. Wildcat
102. Coup!
103. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl*
104. Young Woman and the Sea
105. National Anthem
106. Blink Twice
107. A Quiet Place: Day One
108. Borderlands
109. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
110. Notice to Quit
111. Babygirl
112. I Used to Be Funny
113. The End We Start From
114. Majority Rules
115. Abigail
116. Cuckoo
117. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
118. Joker: Folie à Deux
119. His Three Daughters
120. The Critic
121. Between the Temples
122. Wicked
123. The Peasants
124. Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver*
125. The Killer's Game
126. Atlas*
127. Kill
128. Longlegs
129. Rumours
130. Maria*
131. The Fabulous Four
132. Smile 2
133. Goodrich
134. Gladiator II
135. Black Box Diaries*
136. No Other Land
137. The Brutalist
138. We Live in Time
139. Queer
140. Lee
141. Madame Web
142. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
143. Tarot

     5/10 (okay):

144. The Bikeriders
145. Woman of the Hour*
146. Sing Sing
147. Love Lies Bleeding
148. Boy Kills World
149. Kneecap
150. Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
151. Subservience*
152. The Substance
153. Kraven the Hunter
154. Monkey Man
155. I Saw the TV Glow
156. The Book of Clarence
157. The Apprentice
158. The Crow
159. Sugarcane*
160. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
161. The Return
162. All We Imagine as Light
163. Twisters
164. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

     4/10 (poor):

165. The Six Triple Eight*
166. Kinds of Kindness
167. It Ends with Us
168. Uglies*
169. The End
170. Nightbitch
171. Spaceman*

     3/10 (bad):

172. The Wild Robot
173. Emilia Pérez
174. Megalopolis
175. Venom: The Last Dance

     2/10 (hated it):

176. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

For the record, here's my full list of 2024 releases that I didn't get around to watching. Maybe someday!

A Family Affair
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things
AXCN: BABYMETAL Legend 43 The Movie
About Dry Grasses
Aggro Dr1ft
Albany Road
All of You
An Almost Christmas Story
Apartment 7A
Arcadian
Backspot
Beatles '64
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
Blackout (Fessenden)
Bloody Axe Wound
Bonhoeffer
Born Innocent: The Redd Kross
Butterfly in the Sky
Caddo Lake
Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
Chime
Chime
Chosen Family
Christmas Eve in Miller's Point
Close to You
Cobweb (Korean)
Coma
Cora Bora
Coup de Chance
Crossing
Cult Killer
Cunk on Life
Dahomey
Damsel
Dead Man's Switch
Deep Web
Dogman
Ennio
Exhibiting Forgiveness
Family Pack
First Omen
Fitting In
Fly Me to the Moon
Free LSD
French Girl
Fresh Kills
From Darkness to Light
Gasoline Rainbow
Get Away
Getting Lost
Girl, You Know It's True
God & Country
Goodbye Horses
Goody Goody Gumdrops
Greedy People
Green Border
Happyend
Hardcore Never Dies
Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron
Hoard
Hot Frosty
Humane
Ick
Immaculate
In a Violent Nature
It Came From Aquarius Records
Jackpot!
Je Suis Auto
LaRoy, Texas
Laapataa Ladies
Latency
Let It Die Here
Let's Start a Cult
Levels
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Lonely Planet
Long Distance
Look Back
Lost on a Mountain in Maine
Lumina
Lush: A Far From Home Movie
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Martha
Matt and Mara
Melomaniac
Michel Gondry: Do It Yourself!
Mogwai: If the Stars Had a Sound
Mothers' Instinct
Mr. Crockett
Music by John Williams
Night Shift
Nugget is Dead? A Christmas Movie
Nutcrackers
Oddity
Oh, Canada
One Day
One Life
Our Little Secret
Parallel
Paying For It
Poolman
Rap World
Rez Ball
Ricky Stanicky
Road House
Rose
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
Santosh
Sasquatch Sunset
Scoop
Scrambled
Seven Cemeteries
Sharper
She is Conann
Simple Minds: Everything is Possible
Skin Deep
Small Things Like These
Sorry/Not Sorry
Spermworld
Stress Positions
Suncoast
Super/Man
Suspended Time
Sweethearts
The 4:30 Movie
The Atlantis Puzzle
The Bibi Files
The Duel
The Greatest Love Story Never Told
The Hobby
The Idea of You
The Killer (John Woo remake)
The Last Stop in Yuma County
The Menendez Brothers
The Monk and the Gun
The Movie Emperor
The Old Oak
The People's Joker
The Radleys
The Road to Ruane
The Second Act
The Stolen Valley
The Supremes At Earl's All-You-Can-Eat
The Thicket
The Vourdalak
The Wasp
The World According To Allee Willis
They Shot the Piano Player
This is Me...Now: A Love Story
Transformers One
Treasure
Trust (Confidenza)
Turtles All the Way Down
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
U are the Universe
Union
Universal Language
Vermiglio
Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World
War Game
Watchmen Chapter 1&2
We Are Fugazi From Washington DC
Weirdo: The Story of Five Eight
What We Find on the Road
White Bird
Winner
Your Monster