My Top 10 Films of 2024

It was an excellent movie year.

Every year, I wrap up this newsletter season with two clip shows, to give myself a little bit of a break down the stretch. The final one, next week’s, looks back at the year, month-by-month, with the best pieces and newsletters I wrote all year. The penultimate one, this one, is my Top Ten Movies of the Year list, as released on the Grierson & Leitch podcast earlier this week. You can listen to that on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Tim and I have been revealing our top 10 movies of the year to each other every year since 1991. The only difference now is that we record it. (You can find all our Top Tens, for decades, right here.)

But here you can get the words, straight on tap.

Thus: The Ten Best Films of 2024.

10. Kinds of Kindness, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. (Available on Disney Plus.)
After achieving mainstream (relatively speaking, anyway) success with Poor Things and The Favourite, weirdo Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos got back to his surreal, absurdist roots with this anthology film featuring three different stories starring actors like Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley playing different roles (alongside some very awesome dogs). The movie is aggressively weird and eager (almost too eager) to be off-putting, but…