'Close Your Eyes' tops our film critic's list of the best movies of 2024

 

 

"Earlier this month, the New York Film Critics Circle gave its best picture award to The Brutalist, Brady Corbet's sweeping drama about a Hungarian-born architect's postwar American rebirth. A few days later, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, of which I'm a member, gave its top prize to Anora, Sean Baker's madly entertaining farce about a Brooklyn sex worker.

It says something about the quality of the movies this year that, as much as I like Anora and The Brutalist, both titles landed just outside my own personal list of favorites. Here, then, are the 10 — no, 11 — best movies of 2024."

read list by Justin Chang

'Close Your Eyes' tops our film critic's list of the best movies of 2024 : NPR