The Brighton Film Club's Films of the Year 2024

The Brighton Film Club presents the Films of the Year 2024 after another stacked year for our screens.

We've opted to only include films released into UK cinemas this year in the main list to highlight the range and quality we've enjoyed. Many of these are now on streaming sites and streamers had plenty of their own excellent releases too though.

After the customary squabbles and more shuffles than a Vegas casino, here then are The Brighton Film Club’s Films of the Year 2024:

20. Inside Out 2

19. Gladiator II

18. Wicked

17. Deadpool & Wolverine

16. Challengers

15. Mean Girls

14. The Apprentice

13. Conclave

12. The Holdovers

11. The Zone Of Interest

10. Monster

9. MaXXXine

8. Kneecap

7. The Iron Claw

6. All Of Us Strangers

5. American Fiction

4. Dune: Part Two

3. Poor Things

2. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

1. Civil War

Of course, there’s always a chunk of releases that can be harder to find and here's a few which managed to elude us this year unfortunately: Perfect Days, Robot Dreams, Love Lies Bleeding, La Chimera, Anora, Hundreds of Beavers, I Saw The TV Glow, The Substance and Watchmen: Chapters 1 & 2.

In terms of non-theatrical release options on the streaming sites, how about: Society of the Snow, The Kitchen, Good Grief, Orion and the Dark, Spaceman, Road House, Hit Man, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Wolfs, Woman of the Hour, Emilia Perez, Carry-On, Unfrosted and Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.

You want even more to check out after all of that? How about: Priscilla, The Color Purple, The Taste of Things, The Persian Version, Drive-Away Dolls, Monkey Man, Back To Black, The Fall Guy, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, A Quiet Place: Day One, The Bikeriders, Twisters, Trap, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Juror #2 and a rewatch of Joker: Folie a Deux so we can decide how we truly feel about it.

Even that doesn’t complete the set with plenty of others released this year that sadly weren’t quite scrapping for inclusion for the above.

Bring on 2025 and go and see more movies!