A24 films, ranked

My order, top to bottom, of the films that made the label mean something.

Bookmarks

1. Moonlight

   5/5

   Jenkins, 2016. Three chapters, one life, a diner scene without dialogue.

2. Everything Everywhere All at Once

   5/5

   Daniels, 2022. Two hours of chaos that land on a mother and a daughter.

3. Aftersun

   5/5

   Wells, 2022. A camcorder holiday you only understand on the way home.

4. Past Lives

   5/5

   Song, 2023. Two decades of almost, settled at a kerb in New York.

5. Lady Bird

   4/5

   Gerwig, 2017. Sacramento, a mother, and the year you are unbearable.

6. Ex Machina

   4/5

   Garland, 2015. A chamber piece about consent, dressed as a lab test.

7. The Green Knight

   4/5

   Lowery, 2021. Slow, strange, and the rare Arthurian film with an ending.

8. Hereditary

   4/5

   Aster, 2018. Grief played as horror; the dinner table is the worst of it.

9. The Lighthouse

   4/5

   Eggers, 2019. Two men, one rock, black and white, and that monologue.