Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.

Is there a worse way to see movies than the obligatory December spent catching up with all the titles you’ve missed? There’s no such thing as a bad year for cinema, and 2024 isn’t any different, but this annual period has only solidified my feeling that my favorite movies of any given year will always be the ones I’ve been given more time to sit with, be it weeks or months, than the countless prestige titles I end up hurrying through as a checklist exercise. It’s not that films from this crop can’t still resonate with me so much as they arrive at a point where the calendar year in cinema has already been defined––even the best last-minute viewings will be unfairly judged,...