The best movies of 2024 as ranked by AP film writers

The challenge of capturing the attention of audiences and getting to the screen feels more perilous than ever.

The consensus seems to be no, and that may be true, but it did produce some stone-cold masterpieces.

Payal Kapadia’s sublime tale of three women in modern Mumbai is a grittily real movie graced, in equally parts, by keen-eyed documentary and dreamy poetry.

Jane Schoenbrun's sophomore feature is a chilling 1990s coming of age.

Martin Scorsese narrates for director David Hinton his lifetime journey with the films of Powell and Pressburger.

Carrie Coon , Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne play sisters caring for their dying father.

Steve McQueen tells a different kind of World War II story in “ Blitz ,” a powerful and clear-eyed odyssey through London .

Saoirse Ronan delivered one of the year ’s absolute best performances as an alcoholic who goes further and further into seclusion in the Orkney Islands in an attempt to start life anew.

Jesse Eisenberg grapples with modern and historical trauma in the disarmingly entertaining road trip film " A Real Pain ".