The recent MNFCA Awards delivered a composite consensus for what our members deemed as the best films of the year. But how would things look if we broke it down to an individual level? Well, that’s exactly what we’ve done with this article!
Each member of the MNFCA was asked to submit their individual film lists. We encourage you to use these lists as a jumping-off point for discovering some great films that came in 2024, and appreciate the great work that all of our members do!
Joe Botten – The MN Movie Man
1. The Brutalist
2. Ghostlight
3. The Substance
4. Babes
5. Oddity
6. Sing Sing & Daughters
7. Challengers
8. Emilia Pérez & Wicked
9. Conclave
10. The Young Woman and the Sea
Eli Brau – Cinephile Corner
1. I Saw the TV Glow
2. Nickel Boys
3. Challengers
4. Sing Sing
5. Anora
6. Dune: Part Two
7. Evil Does Not Exist
8. Babygirl
9. Juror #2
10. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Brian Eggert – Deep Focus Review
1. The Beast
2. Evil Does Not Exist
3. A Different Man
4. The Brutalist
5. Close Your Eyes
6. Civil War
7. Good One
8. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
9. Love Lies Bleeding
10. Challengers & Queer
Hunter Friesen – The Cinema Dispatch
1. The Beast
2. The Brutalist
3. Conclave
4. The End
5. The Girl with the Needle
6. Evil Does Not Exist
7. Emilia Pérez
8. We Live in Time
9. The Substance
10. Maria
Kyle Goethe – Goat Film Reviews
1. We Live in Time
2. Dune: Part Two
3. Nosferatu
4. Love Lies Bleeding
5. Tuesday
6. Scala!!! Or, The Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World’s Wildest Cinema and How it Influenced a Mixed-Up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits
7. Civil War
8. Thelma
9. The Substance
10. In a Violent Nature
Barrett Goetz – The Screen Mash
1. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
2. Anora
3. Saturday Night
4. The Brutalist
5. Monkey Man
6. The Substance
7. Challengers
8. Dune: Part Two
9. Wicked
10. A Complete Unknown
Matt Hambridge – FandomWire
1. Dune: Part Two
2. Federer: Twelve Final Days
3. The Brutalist
4. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
5. Challengers
6. A Real Pain
7. Sing Sing
8. Hit Man
9. Anora
10. Dìdi
Zach Hammill – Movie Friend
1. Dune: Part Two
2. The Brutalist
3. Anora
4. The Substance
5. A Different Man
6. Wicked
7. A Complete Unknown
8. My Old Ass
9. Challengers
10. Twisters & The Fall Guy
Catherine Krummey – Veg Out Recipes
1. I Saw the TV Glow
2. Bob Trevino Likes It
3. Love Lies Bleeding
4. Blink Twice
5. Challengers
6. Babes
7. Flow
8. The Wild Robot
9. Ghostlight
10. The World According to Allee Willis
Brad Lenz – The Screen Mash
1. Conclave
2. Challengers
3. Nickel Boys
4. Wicked
5. The Brutalist
6. We Live in Time
7. Sing Sing
8. Rebel Ridge
9. The Substance
10. Inside Out 2
Ruth Maramis – FlixChatter
1. The Brutalist
2. Conclave
3. Dune: Part Two
4. Nickel Boys
5. Flow
6. I’m Still Here
7. Wicked
8. A Real Pain
9. Juror #2
10. Sing Sing
Paul McGuire Grimes – Paul’s Trip to the Movies
1. Challengers
2. Sing Sing
3. Wicked
4. A Real Pain
5. Emilia Pérez
6. Longlegs
7. Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
8. Conclave
9. The Last Showgirl
10. Dune: Part Two
Mark McPherson – Movies With Mark
1. Anora
2. Sing Sing
3. The Brutalist
4. Nickel Boys
5. Challengers
6. Nosferatu
8. Hundreds of Beavers
9. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
10. Memoir of a Snail
Nicholas Palodichuk – St. Paul Filmcast
1. Nosferatu
2. The Brutalist
3. Red Rooms
4. The Girl with the Needle
5. Love Lies Bleeding
6. Conclave
7. Flow
8. Sing Sing
9. The Substance
10. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Tyler Strandberg – Cinefied
1. Dune: Part Two
2. The Wild Robot
3. Challengers
4. Gladiator II
5. Emilia Pérez
6. Wicked
7. Conclave
8. Hit Man
9. Twisters
10. Deadpool & Wolverine
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