After the lukewarm National Board of Review and AFI picks for the top films of 2024, here comes BFI’s Sight and Sound to give us a strong batch of titles. The poll was voted on by the magazine’s international pool of more than 100 critics.
1. ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (Payal Kapadia)
2. ANORA (Sean Baker)
3. LA CHIMERA (Alice Rohrwacher)
4. DAHOMEY (Mati Diop)
5. HARD TRUTHS (Mike Leigh)
6. CAUGHT BY THE TIDES (Jia Zhang-ke)
7. LOVE LIES BLEEDING (Rose Glass)
8. THE SUBSTANCE (Coralie Fargeat)
9. NO OTHER LAND (Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor)
10. NICKEL BOYS (RaMell Ross)
11. I SAW THE TV GLOW (Jane Schoenbrun)
12. EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
13. CHALLENGERS (Luca Guadagnino)
14. THE ZONE OF INTEREST (Jonathan Glazer)
15. JANET PLANET (Annie Baker)
16. PERFECT DAYS (Wim Wenders
17. MEGALOPOLIS (Francis Ford Coppola)
18. GRAND TOUR (Miguel Gomes)
19. EMILIA PEREZ (Jacques Audiard)
20. THE BRUTALIST (Brady Corbet)