The Voracious Filmgoer's Top Ten Films of 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Nickel Boys

2. Challengers

3. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

4. The Beast

5. Hard Truths

6. Evil Does Not Exist

7. The Brutalist

8. A Real Pain

9. Christmas Eve in Miller's Point

10. Wicked Part 1

 

Honorable Mentions: Anora; Beetlejuice Beetlejuice; Between the Temples; The Book of Clarence; Carry-On; Civil War; Close Your Eyes; Coma; A Complete Unknown; Conclave; Dahomey; Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World; Dune Part Two; The Fall Guy; The First Omen; Ghostlight; God Save Texas: Hometown Prison; His Three Daughters; How to Have Sex; Hundreds of Beavers; I Saw the TV Glow; Janet Planet; Juror #2; Kinds of Kindness; Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes; Kneecap; Last Summer; My Old Ass; No Other Land; The Order; Problemista; Red Rooms; Sing Sing; Smile 2; Soundtrack to a Coup d'État; The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel; The Substance; Thelma; Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl; The Wild Robot; Young Woman and the Sea

 

Other 2024 Bests

The Voracious Filmgoer's Top Ten Films of 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Asteroid City
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. Oppenheimer
4. The Holdovers
5. A Thousand and One
6. The Boy and the Heron
7. Past Lives
8. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
9. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
10. Magic Mike’s Last Dance

Honorable Mentions:
Afire; All of Us Strangers; Anatomy of a Fall; Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret; Barbie; The Creator; Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3; The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes; The Iron Claw; The Killer; Knock at the Cabin; May December; Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros; Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One; Napoleon; Our Body; Poor Things; Renaissance; Showing Up; Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour; The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (and Three More); You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah; The Zone of Interest

Other Bests of 2023

The Voracious Filmgoer's Top Ten Films of 2022

1. Aftersun
2. The Fabelmans
3. Mr. Bachmann and His Class
4. Nope
5. Thirteen Lives
6. Crimes of the Future
7. The Woman King
8. Elvis
9. Kimi
10. Turning Red

Honorable Mentions:
After Yang; All the Beauty and the Bloodshed; Ambulance; Armageddon Time; Avatar: The Way of Water; The Banshees of Inisherin; Barbarian; Confess, Fletch; Decision to Leave; The Fallout; Fire Island; Glass Onion; Happening; Hit the Road; Lightyear; Mad God; The Northman; Pearl; Rien à foutre; Rothaniel; RRR; The Sky is Everywhere; “Sr.”; Stars at Noon; Strange World; TÁR; Three Minutes: A Lengthening; Three Thousand Years of Longing; Ticket to Paradise; Top Gun: Maverick; We Met in Virtual Reality; We Need to Talk About Cosby; White Noise; X

 Other 2022 Bests

The Voracious Filmgoer's Top Ten Films of 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. West Side Story

2. Bergman Island

3. Drive My Car

4. Quo Vadis, Aida?

5. Memoria

6. The Father

7. Licorice Pizza

8. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

9. The French Dispatch

10. Judas and the Black Messiah

 

Honorable Mentions: 

All Light, Everywhere; Bad Luck Banging; Being the Ricardos; Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry; CODA; Come from Away; The Disciple; Encanto; Everybody’s Talking About Jamie; F9; A Glitch in the Matrix; The Green Knight; Inside; In the Heights; The Last Duel; Last Night in Soho; Listening to Kenny G; Luca; Mass; The Mitchells vs. The Machines; No Sudden Move; No Time to Die; Operation Varsity Blues; Petite Maman; The Power of the Dog; Procession; Shiva Baby; Stillwater; Summer of 85; tick, tick…BOOM!; The Tragedy of Macbeth; The Underground Railroad; The Velvet Underground; The White Lotus; Wrath of Man; Zack Snyder’s Justice League

Other 2021 Bests

The Voracious Filmgoer's Top Ten Films of 2020

1. Da 5 Bloods
2. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
3. American Utopia
4. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
5. Soul
6. The King of Staten Island
7. Nomadland
8. The Photograph
9. The Vast of Night
10. Small Axe

Honorable Mentions:
All the Bright Places; All Together Now; The Assistant; Bad Education; Beastie Boys Story; City Hall; Collective; Corpus Christi; Dick Johnson is Dead; Driveways; Emma.; The Empty Man; Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds; First Cow; The Forty-Year-Old-Version; Fourteen; Gretel & Hansel; Greyhound; Hamilton; Happiest Season; The High Note; I’m Thinking of Ending Things; The Invisible Man; Kajillionaire; La Llorona; Let Him Go; Lost Bullet; Marc Maron: End Times Fun; On the Rocks; Premature; Run.; Shirley; Sophocles in Staten Island; Sound of Metal; Straight Up; Totally Under Control; The Trip to Greece; The Way Back; What the Constitution Means to Me 

Other 2020 Bests