There was a clear favorite. There are some films released well before 2024. There are some fan favorites. There are some critics favorites. There’s tennis. Here are ten of the best movies we saw in theatres in 2024.

All We Imagine As Light (2024)

An incredibly real and intimate film about loneliness and love. All We Imagine As Light tracks the day-to-day lives of three women living and working in Mumbai. Excellent camerawork, stunning depiction of the city. -Afriti Bankwalla

Challengers (2024)

Easily the horniest movie about tennis ever made. -Jason Dick

Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

The only movie I caught in theaters this year was Deadpool & Wolverine — and I saw it twice! Once with my movie crew and a second time with my sons. Both times were awesome, and the movie itself was a joy to watch! -Haywood Turnipseed Jr.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

Needs more love. -Norman Quarrinton

Happy Together (1997) 

The longing, the pain of regret, the fact that I was in London for the first time and had just eavesdropped on the worst first date of all time. -Jenny Cavallero

Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

Rose Glass’ sophomore feature Love Lives Bleeding is a queer masterpiece. Kristen Stewart’s Lou is a timid lesbian and Katie M. O’Brian’s Jackie is a body-building queen who find each other in a hopeless place: Lou’s dad’s gym. It’s so very sapphic and I was lucky enough to see this film in a theater full of women, femmes, and queers who cheered at all the right places. We were all very much on the same wavelength of this reality-bending crime thriller and I’ve never felt more at home at the movies. This isn’t a film for everyone and yet I was lucky enough to attend a packed screening of people who instantly understood what Glass was putting down. -Mary Beth McAndrews

Megalopolis (2024)

No one in Hollywood is doing shit like this. I know it got bad ratings, but those people probably just don’t like fun, sex, passion, creativity, or Adam Driver…and frankly they can’t be helped.  -Afriti Bankwalla

Sorcerer (1977)

Hands down one of the most exciting movies I have ever seen. The story of four men (including peak-Roy Scheider) with nothing to lose transporting unstable dynamite in two thrown-together trucks through a nearly impassable jungle is mind-numbingly tense. The packed audience gasped and groaned throughout the repertoire screening, every explosion, bridge collapse and mudslide feeling personal. A masterpiece. -Jason Dick

Stress Positions (2024)

Following a group of morally questionable queer friends living in New York through the height of the pandemic, Theda Hammel’s debut feature is hilarious, thoughtful, and downright demented at times. John Early flexes his top notch physical comedy chops, and there’s a scene where Hammel’s character talks about transness that makes me tear up not because it’s sad but because it’s so honest and matter-of-fact. It’s definitely a queer/trans movie, but it’s not about identity so much as it is about freedom from identity and the instability of veracity and moral certainty. -Afriti Bankwalla

The Substance (2024)

This movie rips and just as entertaining as watching its extremely goopy climax was watching the audience react to it’s extremely goopy climax. -Joe McAdam

It’s gross, funny, surprising, gross, captivating, and also gross. If you’ve ever wondered what The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and The Thing would be like if they were combined, set in the present(?), and not starring men then this is your dream film. -Tyler Snodgrass

Go watch The Substance right now. Finish the article then go watch The Substance. Shut up, just go. -Ian Graham

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