The Letterboxd 2024 Year in Review

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We’re here to become human again. To become all we imagine and more than we were programmed to be. To live life forwards, even while we look back.

We see possible futures, all at once, in the ghost light. So we draw closer to the TV’s glow, going with the flow of family life, of grandmas and daughters, hit men and fall guys, learning to defy gravity, Anxiety… and brutalist beavers.

Let the white smoke rise—we have our winners. Or, in the words of Tashi Duncan: COME ON!

Please enjoy our thirteenth annual retrospective. (Your personalized summary is here!)

Title illustration by Danny Haas.

Highest Rated

Based on almost half a billion ratings cast by our members in 2024, these are the highest-rated films overall, by genre, and in other categories.

Cut to: our highest-rated film! 🎬

Results as of 1 January 2025.

Dune: Part Two (2024)

1 Dune: Part Two

“An absolute behemoth of a film. My goodness. The entire third act is some of the most goosebump-inducing filmmaking I’ve ever seen. I can’t stress enough the intensity of the emotions I feel while watching this. It’s truly an experience I’ll cherish forever.” — George Carmi

Average weighted rating: 4.4

2 I’m Still Here

“May we never forget the dark past we lived through, may we never forget the many voices cruelly silenced by hands that, even today, remain unpunished. And finally, may we remember: even the faintest smile can be the thread of hope that guides us through the labyrinths of despair.” — gabe lisbôa

Average weighted rating: 4.3

3 How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

“For anyone who’s ever lost someone they didn’t get to love fully, this film doesn’t just break you, it reveals that the truest wounds lie not in the act of losing but in the moments that slipped away unnoticed … Most importantly, I’d say give your grandparents a good hug after watching. :)” — neil

Average weighted rating: 4.3

Video Message

“Straight to my heart”

Denis Villeneuve celebrates Dune: Part Two becoming your number one!

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Genre Winners

As The Substance director Coralie Fargeat says, genre allows us to go outside of reality and be in a world where the rules are different.

Cinema’s strange darlings in 2024 included fur trappers, Irish rappers and Wasteland whippersnappers. In an Olympic year of sweaty body-building and acrobatic action, we also refereed a special sports top ten.

Apresentando: your genre winners. 🎾

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Dune: Part Two

“The worm-riding scene was the best moment of the entire movie. I felt so alive with all the special effects and the sound design and the vibrations—it’s like I was riding it myself.”  — Acoucalancha

Average weighted rating: 4.4

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Hundreds of Beavers

“One of the funniest movies I’ve seen and plays so well with a crowd. Great live-action Looney Tunes movie. Few things are funnier to me than when a human is put on trial by literal animals that he has wronged.”  — Srirachachau

Average weighted rating: 4.1

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I’m Still Here

“The way it immerses you in the family, the closeness, the lightness between them, the happiness they carry… it’s incredible. When the climax comes, the anguish is overwhelming.”  — rafael

Average weighted rating: 4.3

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Nosferatu

“Lily-Rose Depp, I’m so sorry I ever doubted you! Nosferatu is the scariest film I’ve seen this year and quite possibly my favorite Robert Eggers to date. He manages to breathe new life into the classic vampire tale while still doing right by F. W. Murnau’s 1922 film.”  — Lexi Amoriello

Average weighted rating: 3.7

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Anora

“How can you chase something if you haven’t even discovered yourself? … [Anora] might seem like a typical love story, but there is so much more with its humor and ability to stress you out. It’s a true definition of a dream-to-nightmare scenario.”  — rickyfonseca

Average weighted rating: 3.9

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Dune: Part Two

“Denis Villeneuve delivers his sci-fi cautionary tale with master brushstrokes, prompting a thorough analysis of Paul’s role as a messianic figure that stokes the fires for the eventual Dune: Messiah adaptation.”  — Jonathan Spiroff

Average weighted rating: 4.4

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Challengers

“[Luca] Guadagnino’s vision of tennis is one of accentuated gestures, an evolving and repeating set of visual cues binding two people, a personal history that cuts in with every hit, each exchange of the ball a flashback to another piece of the dynamic.”  — Avalyn Wu

Average weighted rating: 3.9

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Women Directors

Among those who helmed our 50 highest-rated narrative films, eight women were in the director’s chair. Indian women filmmakers especially lit up our screens and imaginations in 2024.

Eight is a drop from last year’s fourteen, which included Greta Gerwig’s billion-dollar Barbie. We don’t like to see women and gender-expansive storytellers put back in the box, so here’s where we can pull the focus on some underrepresented artists. 

And now for our women of the hour… 💪🏽

Explore more in the Celluloid Ceiling Report, the Annenberg Inclusion in the Director’s Chair report and our official top 250 narrative feature films directed by women.

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Lost Ladies

“Lost ladies? Nah, ladies who found their way. One wanted to just get married and stay put and the other wanted to taste her freedom and nothing was wrong about either of their dreams. Two beautiful representations. 🌸”  — Alicecharles

Average weighted rating: 4.0

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All We Imagine as Light

“To surrender to All We Imagine as Light is to immerse oneself in Payal Kapadia’s vision of Mumbai … The colours, the performances, and the score all graciously blend together to tell a relaxing and poignant story of working-class women.”  — roro

Average weighted rating: 3.9

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No Other Land

“Directors Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal capture the conflict on the ground in harrowing vérité style … It’s a fearless work, a howl of rage in the face of injustice, but what makes it so memorable is its ability to find calm in the storm.”  — Mattie Lucas

Average weighted rating: 4.5

Video Message

“The Best Reward”

Coralie Fargeat injects the Letterboxd community with thanks.

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World of Cinema

Our second-annual geographical breakdown saw Letterboxd jetsetters crossing to Egypt, tunnelling to France and heading south to climb mountains.

As Kneecap reminded us, a country without a language is only half a nation; our continental winners speak the universal language of movies. 

This year’s regional rundown also shines a spotlight on India, which boasted an outstanding year of films in the Malayalam language. 🪷

Explore more highest-rated films of the world in Rahat Ahmed’s country round‑ups.

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Flight 404

“This year’s standout film, polarizing and intricate in its portrayal of repentance, delivers a haunting narrative that profoundly resonated with me. Mona Zaki’s performance is truly exceptional.”  — HEREDICKARY

Average weighted rating: 3.6

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How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

“Captures so beautifully the mundanity of living in an Asian family; where elders come first; where there are hierarchies of love that translate into hierarchies of resources (or vice versa); where, despite it all, we share a bond that is near unbreakable.”  — jessie

Average weighted rating: 4.3

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The Count of Monte Cristo

“Le romanesque, l’aventure, les sentiments tout y est. C’est pour ça que le cinéma existe et doit exister: que des histoires comme celles là peuvent être racontées, et racontées, et racontées.”  English — Philéas Frère

Average weighted rating: 4.1

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Dune: Part Two

“A triumphant sequel and instant classic, Dune: Part Two capitalizes on everything Dune did so well. A completely immersive experience—I was bathed in the sand and came out a new man. Denis Villeneuve… are you god?!”  — Marshall 🧸

Average weighted rating: 4.4

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Memoir of a Snail

“I kinda love when you can see little fingerprints on the clay during movies like this, reminds you how much work and passion went into it … I used to have pet snails, shout out Pearl and Eotus, miss you forever.”  — erica

Average weighted rating: 4.1

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I’m Still Here

“Estou sem palavras. É tudo tão intenso, tão real, tão tocante. Todos os aspectos são feitos com tanta maestria, que trabalho impecável. Fernanda Torres (nossa Oscar winner), obrigada por tudo, você é LUZ. Esse filme é sobre nós. Viva o cinema Brasileiro, e ditadura nunca mais!”  English — júlia

Average weighted rating: 4.3

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Spotlight on Malayalam Cinema

Aattam

Malayalam-language films take center stage.

Category Winners

A spread of the highest-rated animated tales, remarkable non-fiction stories and perspective-bending feature debuts.

Plus, beyond the multiplex, we welcome Franklin, Samuel and Corey, as fans fueled a fantastique year for episodic gems, concert celebrations and stand-up specials.

A decade on, we also whip-pan through a wormhole to the past to see how you’d rank the top films of 2014 today. 🚀

Explore our official all-time top lists for animation, documentaries and miniseries.

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Look Back

“Kiyotaka Oshiyama said that this film is a love letter to creatives and it really shows. His (and [Tatsuki] Fujimoto’s) attention to the love, labour and history folded within an act of creation is palpable in every line of every gorgeous frame.”  — anikaschreiber

Average weighted rating: 4.3

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No Other Land

“There are no other words to describe this than essential. It’s cinema, filmmaking, at its most necessary, the camera used not as a mode of expression but as survival, a record of a truth that cannot be hidden.”  — J Taylor-Jones

Average weighted rating: 4.5

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How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

“The use of silence, prolonged scenes that linger on seemingly mundane moments, staging and lens choices—I appreciate [Pat] Boonnitipat’s direction. It’s a film confident of what it wants to be.”  — jdcudo

Average weighted rating: 4.3

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Coreys

“Coreys is a meta nightmare that asks us how many different guys are we hiding inside, the struggle to suppress your inner guys, and the horror of letting all your most primal guys be unleashed.”  — Boney_Bob

Average weighted rating: 3.9

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Snoopy Presents: Welcome Home, Franklin

“A darling tribute to the character [and] a sweet and gentle way of rectifying the fact that he’s never had his own special before until now! … Welcome home, Franklin!!! It’s nice to finally meet you properly. ❤️”  — Ada

Average weighted rating: 3.9

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Samuel

“Je viens d’enchaîner les 21 épisodes d’un seul coup, c’est bon pour vous? Oui la hype ne mentait pas, c’est absolument merveilleux, ça transpire la nostalgie, c’est incroyablement touchant et drôle et la musique est exceptionnelle! Merci Emilie Tronche et le service public pour ça. ✨”  English — Frame_

Average weighted rating: 4.6

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DJ Mehdi: Made in France

“Je le connaissais pas et je connaissais pas son histoire, j’avais AUCUNE idée de l’importance et de l’impact de ce roi dans le monde de la musique… Je suis certain que même si on est pas forcément rattachés à l’électro ou au rap, ce docu peut nous impacter.”  English — Néo Di Giorgio

Average weighted rating: 4.5

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Stand Up Solutions

“Nails with scary pinpoint accuracy the entrepreneurial tech-bro-ification of straight middle-American masculinity and how it’s hastening us all toward a dystopian hellworld. Also, hilarious.”  — Alex Engquist

Average weighted rating: 4.2

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One Piece Fan Letter

“I laughed. I cried. I jumped for joy … A rich tapestry showing firsthand what it means to fall in love with One Piece on both a conceptual and a literal level.”  — CrystalPepsi913

Average weighted rating: 4.6

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RM: Right People, Wrong Place

“RM takes us to a place so intimate you feel wrong for having peeked into his head. A journey of searching for what’s always been there: love for music, art and people. I feel so grateful for being able to see this side of him.”  — retrograded

Average weighted rating: 4.3

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The Pop Out: Ken & Friends

“This is the greatest event I’ve ever experienced in my life. The Olympics for haters! My hater energy is recharged.”  — Des

Average weighted rating: 4.6

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Flashback to 2014

Whiplash

A decade on, here’s how the top films of 2014 rank now.

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Halfway through the decade, we size up the highest rated and most popular pictures of the last five years. 🕸️

Results as of 1 January 2025.

Our Annual Winners

The year-end highest-rated films since 2020.

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Midway 2020s—Highest Rated Films

Spider-Man: Across the Spider‑Verse

In the middle of the decade, these are the top 50 highest-rated films so far.

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Midway 2020s—Most Fans A “fan” is a member who has selected the film in their four favorites.

Everything Everywhere All at Once

The most four-faved films of the 2020s.

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Midway 2020s—Directorial Debuts Exclusively narrative feature directorial debuts for all credited directors.

How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

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Midway 2020s—Women Directors

Aftersun

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Midway 2020s—Documentaries

No Other Land

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Midway 2020s—Narrative Miniseries Excludes canceled or renewed series.

Samuel

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Midway 2020s—Documentary Miniseries Excludes canceled or renewed series.

The Beatles: Get Back

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Before it ends, before we run out of time, our editorial team would like to celebrate some of our greatest days of 2024.

Between Marty and Leo in our most watched YouTube video and the wickedly talented ensemble in our most viewed TikTok, you took pride in our most liked tweet on X, and lapped up four faves on IG from besties like Denis, Emma, Olivia, Snoop, Pedro, the French lawyers and Team Godzilla. (Zendaya, call us.)

Our most read Journal stories saw naughty lists, M. Night rankings and search parties float your boat. We also danced with Awāra, booked a private with Michael Mann, embraced closed captions and took a class in audio commentaries. Plus, hand-picked recommendations new and old, year-round.

Break’s over—back to the floor. 🪩

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Reviews We Loved

Hard Truths

Brandon Streussnig

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Completely bowled over by this. Every burst of anger or humor flattened by the silence that comes from having to exist like this, having to live with pain you simply cannot communicate. Marianne Jean-Baptiste with the performance of the year? Decade? Life? A remarkable exercise in screen acting, taking up the frame early, larger than life until the rage and pain consumes her and she just shrinks and shrinks, even her face seemingly swallowing itself. It’s fucking NUTS. A giant.

](https://letterboxd.com/bjstreu513/film/hard-truths-2024/)

Twisters

Reyna Cervantes

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I’ll be honest. I was a doubter/hater. But then I saw Twisters in 4DX. While Twisters is the prime example of the braindead summer blockbuster, I can’t help but be charmed in the moment by its portrayal of Americana. When it’s not trying to justify its uses of semi-real scientific explanations, Twisters relishes grabbing the bull by the horns and riding out the storm. Twisters does something a lot of big blockbusters forget to do: it has fun! Never have I wanted to YEE HAW more in a movie.

](https://letterboxd.com/jfcdoomblade/film/twisters/1/)

Love Lies Bleeding

Ana V

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Somewhere in the world, David Cronenberg and Julia Ducournau are smiling simply because this film exists. Rose Glass’s Love Lies Bleeding is a neon-infused, surrealist, daydream of a film in which love and violence are so intertwined that you can’t tell where one ends and the other begins. When Richard Siken wrote “I’m sorry about the blood in your mouth, I wish it was mine” I can only imagine this was the type of feeling he was trying to evoke, a passion so guttural, so all-consuming that it makes one bleed and draw blood for the sake of others. Glass finds sensuality in the grotesque, beauty in the horror, and a tender connection in the midst of brutality that gives the characters the strength they need to break free and run away together. Perhaps not into the sunset, but into the starry, desert night.

](https://letterboxd.com/anapau_villa/film/love-lies-bleeding-2024/)

Interstellar

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Watching my dad’s and [my] favorite movie in IMAX with him was such a special experience. I started crying before anything had even happened because I already felt the weight of the grief that this movie holds … I don’t think there’s anything more beautiful than the idea that a father’s love for his daughter is so powerful that it literally transcends space and time, saving her and the rest of the human race. Because, of course, he promised her.

](https://letterboxd.com/beatricejane02/film/interstellar/2/)

A Woman Under the Influence

Marisa Cerasoli

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Gena Rowlands’ performance here is lyrical. Every peculiar micro expression, every movement, every flicker of vulnerability—her facial features perpetually arranged as though she could begin sobbing at any moment. Mabel’s life is lived in bursts—whirlwinds of pain and confusion at her husband’s neglect and contradictions, an abundance of emotion that just has nowhere to go but to come up to the surface—and every molecule of it manifests in Rowlands’ face. If she is anywhere to be seen in the frame, you can’t help but fix your eyes on her. When she’s not on screen, you’re wishing she was. The hard pill to swallow is that Mabel is hardly any more insane than Nick. God forbid a woman be filled with untameable whimsy! At no point does this feel like watching a movie. This is complete immersion in something real.

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Seven Samurai

Matt

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Even though I can understand all the ways it tells me that samurai could be real arseholes they still remain really fucking cool.

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Sherlock Jr.

Devyn Kawata

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If I had a time machine, I’d skip talking to my dearly departed ancestors and loved ones, and jump straight into showing this film to a Victorian child.

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Juror #2

Tyler Whitmore

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Movie so tense it had me questioning if I was guilty for crimes I never even committed. Clint Eastwood at 94 years old still has the ability to throw an absolute heater down the middle of the plate. A masterclass of tension and guilt. A fascinating look into power and the lengths people go to acquire and protect it. A modern-day trolley problem … Chris Messina shows up and I let out an audible “hell yeah”.

](https://letterboxd.com/tylercwhitmore/film/juror-2/)

Heretic

Rachel Syme

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I agree with everyone that deploying Hugh Grant’s nuclear charm in a horror direction is a… fun stunt! He’s just a boy, standing in front of two girls, asking if he can kill them. The whole trick of this movie is that Nobody Could Ever Find Hugh Scary When He Is Such A Doddering Moppet and well… that’s a big mistake, girls! Huge! Never believe that just because a man offers you blueberry pie he doesn’t have a giant murder maze in his house!!!

](https://letterboxd.com/rachsyme/film/heretic-2024/)

Babygirl

dominique

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What makes this work, instead of following traditional narrative conventions, is the non-judgemental approach of its characters avoiding condescension and simplification … [Nicole] Kidman and [Harris] Dickinson are such a complimentary pair; both bring a blend of vulnerability and authenticity to their roles … One thing I think it excels at, in particular, is examining the complexities of female desire and the evolving dynamics of relationships and shedding light on the subtle interplay of power and vulnerability that defines them.

](https://letterboxd.com/dominique/film/babygirl-2024/)

The Muppet Movie

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In every Muppets property, the same group of friends find each other again and that’s so beautiful to me. Gonzo always falls for Camilla. Fozzie always gets over his stage fright. Miss Piggy always decides Kermit is her husband. Kermit always falls into existential crisis. Elliot Gould is *usually* there. It’s Eternal Sunshine without all the hard parts.

](https://letterboxd.com/jamiealert/film/the-muppet-movie/)

Klute

Willow Maclay

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It was the way he looked at women that I found so endearing. For many of Donald Sutherland’s romantic characters, when he observed women, he would bring out their innermost private self. He had a way of excavating the real you—the woman you kept to yourself. It was mesmerizing, intoxicating, dreamy, natural, vulnerable, terrifying, erotic. There’s a scene near the end in Klute, which takes place at a fruit market, where this element of Sutherland’s is on display, and I have rewatched it many times since I heard he passed away yesterday at the age of 88. It is where Sutherland is encased in amber in the temple of my own cinephilia, and it’s how I want to remember him.

](https://letterboxd.com/catelyn/film/klute/5/)

The Young Girls of Rochefort

noen

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What a colorful and beautiful film, also French sounds so beautiful, I wish French people were real.

](https://letterboxd.com/sknnysoul/film/the-young-girls-of-rochefort/)

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Director’s Chair

Some top lists shared by filmmaker, actor—and pop-star—members in 2024.

14 Favorite Films in no particular order (except Potemkin)

Michael Mann 14 films

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• Battleship Potemkin (1925)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
• Biutiful (2010)
• Raging Bull (1980)
• Incendies (2010)
• Pale Flower (1964)
• L’Atalante (1934)
• The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
• Poor Things (2023)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

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Movies That I Highly Recommend

Francis Ford Coppola 20 films

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• French Cancan (1954)
• The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
• The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932)
• Shanghai Express (1932)
• The Awful Truth (1937)
• The Ladies Man (1961)
• The Burmese Harp (1956)
• Tokyo Story (1953)
• The Last Laugh (1924)
• The Blue Angel (1930)
• Splendor in the Grass (1961)

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Flanagan’s Favorite King Adaptations

Mike Flanagan 20 films

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• Stand by Me (1986)
• Carrie (1976)
• The Green Mile (1999)
• The Shining (1980)
• Misery (1990)
• Dolores Claiborne (1995)
• The Dead Zone (1983)
• Storm of the Century (1999)
• The Mist (2007)
• It (1990)

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Favorites

Elsie Fisher 49 films

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• Winter Kills (1979)
• Brewster McCloud (1970)
• Tough Guys Don’t Dance (1987)
• Ten Days’ Wonder (1971)
• Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)
• Portrait of Jennie (1948)
• Summer Dreams: The Story of the Beach Boys (1990)
• King of Jazz (1930)
• The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
• Inherent Vice (2014)

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Great Screenplays

Chandler Levack 110 films

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• Toni Erdmann (2016)
• Casablanca (1942)
• The Lady Eve (1941)
• Back to the Future (1985)
• Die Hard (1988)
• Witness (1985)
• Marty (1955)
• Shiva Baby (2020)
• The Godfather (1972)
• The Social Network (2010)
• Jerry Maguire (1996)

](https://letterboxd.com/clevack/list/great-screenplays/)

Paul Atreides’ Picks

Kyle MacLachlan 10 films

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• Spice World (1997)
• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
• Tremors (1990)
• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
• The Prince of Egypt (1998)
• Star Wars (1977)
• Holes (2003)
• Minority Report (2002)
• Hamlet (2000)

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Top Five favorite films

Leigh Whannell 5 films

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• The Thing (1982)
• Mad Max 2 (1981)
• Se7en (1995)
• Memento (2000)

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Alien Franchise Ranked

Vera Drew 9 films

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• Alien Resurrection (1997)
• Alien (1979)
• Prometheus (2012)
• AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
• Alien: Covenant (2017)
• Alien³ (1992)
• Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (2007)
• Alien: Romulus (2024)

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TOP 100 HORROR

Scott Derrickson 100 films

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• Jaws (1975)
• The Exorcist (1973)
• The Shining (1980)
• Psycho (1960)
• Carrie (1976)
• Poltergeist (1982)
• The Orphanage (2007)
• I Saw the Devil (2010)
• Martyrs (2008)
• Onibaba (1964)

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Wim’s Dirty Dozen of his favorite Road Movies

Wim Wenders 12 films

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• Pierrot le Fou (1965)
• The Searchers (1956)
• Kings of the Road (1976)
• Nomadland (2020)
• Badlands (1973)
• Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
• Five Easy Pieces (1970)
• The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
• The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
• Detour (1945)

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Lists We Loved

Plus a selection of our favorite lists published in 2024.

Letterboxd Four Favorites Interviews

André Grochovski 2,475 films

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• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
• Spirited Away (2001)
• The Shining (1980)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• Jaws (1975)
• La La Land (2016)
• It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
• The Godfather Part II (1974)
• Star Wars (1977)

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Films that are a culmination/amalgamation of a filmmaker’s entire filmography

Ellie 70 films

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• Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
• Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)
• The Fabelmans (2022)
• The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
• Alien: Covenant (2017)
• Glass (2019)
• Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019)
• Oppenheimer (2023)
• The Irishman (2019)
• Streets of Fire (1984)

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BRAT SUMMER

lily 200 films

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• Bottoms (2023)
• Wild Child (2008)
• Challengers (2024)
• Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
• Clueless (1995)
• Project X (2012)
• Babygirl (2024)
• Shiva Baby (2020)
• Saltburn (2023)
• Lisa Frankenstein (2024)

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throuples!

ruth 110 films

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• Design for Living (1933)
• Venom (2018)
• Foxfire (1996)
• The Prestige (2006)
• Diabolique (1955)
• Dead Ringers (1988)
• A Home at the End of the World (2004)
• Husbands (1970)
• The Master (2012)
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
• Jules and Jim (1962)

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Could’ve fooled me! - Contemporary films that are excellent at recreating the aesthetics of older eras from cinema’s history.

Ethan 31 films

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• The House of the Devil (2009)
• The Holdovers (2023)
• The Lighthouse (2019)
• The Witch (2015)
• Black Dynamite (2009)
• Hard to Be a God (2013)
• Brutal Season (2022)
• Leonor Will Never Die (2022)
• The Heart of the World (2000)
• The Artist (2011)
• Jackie Brown (1997)

](https://letterboxd.com/funeman_/list/couldve-fooled-me-contemporary-films-that/)

Competence porn

Ray Newman 25 films

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• The House on 92nd Street (1945)
• The Day of the Jackal (1973)
• The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
• All the President’s Men (1976)
• Broadcast News (1987)
• Die Hard 2 (1990)
• Apollo 13 (1995)
• Fargo (1996)
• Pushing Tin (1999)
• Erin Brockovich (2000)
• Thirteen Days (2000)

](https://letterboxd.com/rayray67/list/competence-porn/)

The future is the past now

Isaac_Clerk 40 films

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• Back to the Future Part II (1989)
• Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)
• 1984 (1956)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• 2010 (1984)
• Terminator Salvation (2009)
• 2012 (2009)
• Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
• Avengers: Endgame (2019)
• The Apple (1980)

](https://letterboxd.com/isaac_clerk/list/the-future-is-the-past-now/)

Hair is Character: Movies Where a Character’s Hair Tells a Story

eely 🌻 144 films

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• When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
• The Sting (1973)
• Captain Fantastic (2016)
• Empire Records (1995)
• The Lady Eve (1941)
• Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
• The Candidate (1972)
• Working Girl (1988)
• Hairspray (1988)
• Mulan (1998)
• Bad Hair (2020)

](https://letterboxd.com/eely/list/hair-is-character-movies-where-a-characters/)

Verbing Name Name

benflores 40 films

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• Being John Malkovich (1999)
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
• Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)
• Kissing Jessica Stein (2001)
• Saving Private Ryan (1998)
• Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
• Waking Ned Devine (1998)
• Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)
• Finding Mrs. Claus (2012)
• Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
• Finding Steve McQueen (2019)

](https://letterboxd.com/benflores/list/verbing-name-name/)

2024 film posters that are just a big face

tullystenders 69 films

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• The Beast (2023)
• Challengers (2024)
• Cuckoo (2024)
• Immaculate (2024)
• Smile 2 (2024)
• Trap (2024)
• Small Things Like These (2024)
• Hit Man (2023)
• A Complete Unknown (2024)
• Gladiator II (2024)
• Woman of the Hour (2023)

](https://letterboxd.com/tullystenders/list/2024-film-posters-that-are-just-a-big-face/)

Videos

Montage Menagerie

Video countdowns created by Letterboxd members.

Video: Paolo Alfar

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Trends

Begin Again

Origin stories, prequels and interquels in 2024.

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Club Classics

Go back to the clurrrb in our supercut for 2024.

Poster Trends

We’re Seated

They’ve asked us to leave the trends section but we’re simply too seated.

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Posters that are black as night and red all over.

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Crew Picks

One-Sheet Wonders

The Letterboxd team’s favorite 2024 film posters.

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Poster Trends

Drop Dead Gorgeous

The ten most customized 2024 films by our Patrons.

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In Memoriam

A video tribute to those we lost in 2024.

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The Mosts

And finally, the actors and directors that struck your fancy in 2024, and the films you’re most hotly awaiting in 2025. ✨

Results as of 1 January 2025.

Most Watched Actress

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](https://letterboxd.com/actor/zendaya/)

Zendaya

Part Two of Zendaya’s reign.

1. Zendaya
2. Margaret Qualley
3. Emma Stone
4. Florence Pugh
5. Rebecca Ferguson
6. Catherine O’Hara
7. Léa Seydoux
8. Charlotte Rampling
9. Anne Hathaway
10. Scarlett Johansson

Most Watched Actor

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](https://letterboxd.com/actor/willem-dafoe/)

Willem Dafoe

This is Dafoe’s third win.

1. Willem Dafoe
2. Timothée Chalamet
3. Stellan Skarsgård
4. J.K. Simmons
5. Josh Brolin
6. Samuel L. Jackson
7. Dave Bautista
8. Javier Bardem
9. Mark Ruffalo
10. Brad Pitt

Most Watched Director

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](https://letterboxd.com/director/denis-villeneuve/)

Denis Villeneuve

And Villeneuve’s third, too.

1. Denis Villeneuve
2. Yorgos Lanthimos
3. Ridley Scott
4. Luca Guadagnino
5. Christopher Nolan
6. Tim Burton
7. Hayao Miyazaki
8. Martin Scorsese
9. Shawn Levy
10. David Fincher

Most Watched Woman Director

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](https://letterboxd.com/director/coralie-fargeat/)

Coralie Fargeat

She is (number) one.

1. Coralie Fargeat
2. Greta Gerwig
3. Sofia Coppola
4. Emerald Fennell
5. Justine Triet
6. Emma Seligman
7. Celine Song
8. Jane Schoenbrun
9. Rose Glass
10. Samantha Jayne

Most Watched First-Time Director

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](https://letterboxd.com/director/arturo-perez-jr/)

Arturo Perez Jr.

Yep, they made fetch happen.

1. Arturo Perez Jr.
2. Samantha Jayne
3. Dev Patel
4. Zoë Kravitz
5. Anna Kendrick
6. Greg Jardin
7. Arkasha Stevenson
8. Dana Ledoux Miller
9. David G. Derrick Jr.
10. Jason Hand

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Dune: Part Two

“Boomers say what’s keeping young people from buying a house is grabbing specialty coffee a couple times a week, but it’s actually rewatching Denis Villeneuve films in the cinema.”  — cinema excelsior

Average weighted rating: 4.4

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I’m Still Here

“O nosso país tem memória curta … Tudo que nós temos é o que já foi um dia, então lembre-se, leia, assista, debulhe-se em nossa história, mas sobretudo não se permita esquecer. Obrigada, Marcelo Rubens Paiva, por ter escolhido lembrar. Sua decisão me trouxe um novo filme favorito.”  English — bel rodrigues

Average weighted rating: 4.3

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Madame Web

“Awful in one of the most endlessly entertaining ways possible. So many narrative threads are dropped extremely easily, so many discarded characters, all the suit stuff being fucking visions… yet I was like. Smiling near the end.”  — Paul

Average weighted rating: 1.5

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AGGRO DR1FT

“Contemplated half a star, contemplated a full five, settling on three because whatever I ultimately feel about its beautiful, nauseating, ethereal, and frequently boring cycle of synth soundscapes and infrared images, I think I sorta like it.”  — JakubM

Average weighted rating: 3.1

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Most Anticipated in 2025

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Crew Picks for 2025

The Wedding Banquet

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Ones to Watch The highest-rated films that were below our minimum ratings threshold on January 1.

Her Story

“We went somewhere really beautiful together.”

Tashi Duncan (Zendaya) in Challengers, on losing herself in the moment. Let’s get lost in movies again in 2025.

See the full lists, read the Journal story to learn more about who put this together, and take a moment to share this Year in Review to IG, TikTok, X, Facebook and beyond!

Our thanks to NEON for supporting this 2024 retrospective.

Coda

Magnificent Obsession

Before it all ends, a few words from our friends. 🥹 😍