For a film critic, the year’s not over until you’ve agonized over which movies make your year-end list. Although SFCS has already announced our 2024 awards, as we turn the page to a new year we’re sharing a selection of top ten(-ish) lists from some of our members.
Check out the links to read more of their thoughts about the year in film and follow this Letterboxd list of all the films that made someone’s list. .

Allen Almachar: The MacGuffin
- The Substance
- Anora
- The Wild Robot
- Sing Sing
- The Brutalist
- Strange Darling
- Hundreds of Beavers
- The Beast
- Juror #2
- Conclave
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Josh Bis: The SunBreak
- The End
- Nickel Boys
- No Other Land
- The Brutalist
- Anora
- Challengers
- Babygirl
- La Chimera
- Evil Does Not Exist
- Presence

Joseph Curtis: YouTube
- Dune: Part Two
- Nosferatu
- Sing Sing
- Deadpool & Wolverine
- Wicked
- The Wild Robot
- Gladiator II
- We Live In Time
- Alien: Romulus
- The Substance

Sean Gilman: The End of Cinema
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- Horizon: An American Saga Chapter One
- Eephus
- Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
- Baby Assassins: Nice Days
- Juror #2
- A Traveler’s Needs
- The Colors Within
- The Shadow Strays
- Megalopolis

Kathy Fennessy: Seattle Film Blog
- Janet Planet
- The Substance
- Love Lies Bleeding
- Red Rooms
- A Real Pain
- Between the Temples
- Dead Man’s Switch / Arillo De Hombre Muerto
- Rebel Ridge
- The Vourdalak
- MaXXXine

Sara Michelle Fetters: Moviefreak
- I Saw the TV Glow
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- Love Lies Bleeding
- Ghostlight
- Challengers
- Rebel Ridge
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- Conclave
- The Substance
- The People’s Joker

Linda Gwilym: Moviepie.com
- The Substance
- The Brutalist
- Hard Truths
- Flow
- Love Lies Bleeding
- The First Omen
- The Devil’s Bath
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- Critical Zone
- Conclave

Timothy Hall: The People’s Critic
- Wicked
- Smile 2
- Longlegs
- Anora
- The Shadow Strays
- Challengers
- The Substance
- Late Night with the Devil
- The Greatest Night in Pop
- In a Violent Nature

Joe Hammerschmidt: Warm 106.9
- The Brutalist
- The Wild Robot
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- Challengers
- Ghostlight
- Dune: Part Two
- Sing Sing
- Better Man
- Flow
- Love Lies Bleeding

Chase Hutchinson: The Inlander
- I Saw the TV Glow
- The Brutalist
- Anora
- Good One
- Evil Does Not Exist
- Janet Planet
- Fancy Dance
- A Real Pain
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- Longlegs

Calvin Kemph: The Twin Geeks
- I Saw the TV Glow
- Sing Sing
- Daughters
- Anora
- Evil Does Not Exist
- Conclave
- The People’s Joker
- Nosferatu
- Flow
- Alien: Romulus

Brent McKnight: The Last Thing I See
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- Rebel Ridge
- The Shadow Strays
- The People’s Joker
- Love Lies Bleeding
- The Substance
- Abigail
- Queer
- I Saw the TV Glow
- Sing Sing
- 100 Yards

Michael Medved: MichaelMedved.com
- September 5
- A Real Pain
- One Life
- White Bird
- The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
- Here
- Gladiator II
- Hit Man
- The Order
- Stopping the Steal

Justin Moore: Justin Watches Movies
- The Wild Robot
- Anora
- Deadpool and Wolverine
- Dune: Part Two
- Longlegs
- Abigail
- Alien: Romulus
- The Bikeriders
- Wicked
- Nosferatu

Marc Morin: TheTwoOhSix
- Sing Sing
- Wicked
- Immaculate
- The Wild Robot
- Inside Out 2
- Alien: Romulus
- The Substance
- Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
- Deadpool & Wolverine
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Matt Oakes: Silver Screen Riot
- The Beast
- Nosferatu
- The Substance
- Challengers
- Dune: Part Two
- Anora
- Conclave
- The Brutalist
- The Coffee Table (La Mesita del Comedor)
- Strange Darling

Blake Peterson : 425
- Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
- No Other Land
- The Substance
- Red Rooms
- The Beast
- Janet Planet
- I Saw the TV Glow
- The Brutalist
- Challengers
- Love Lies Bleeding

Erik Samdahl: FilmJabber
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- Dune: Part Two
- Challengers
- Ghostlight
- The Substance
- The Brutalist
- The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
- September 5
- Conclave
- Nosferatu

Rene Sanchez: Cine Sin Fronteras
- Anora
- I Saw the TV Glow
- The Substance
- I’m Still Here
- The Seed of the Sacred Fig
- The Brutalist
- Crossing
- Nickel Boys
- All We Imagine As Light
- Vermiglio

Morgen Schuler: TheSunBreak
- The Beast
- The Brutalist
- Saturday Night
- Lee
- Anora
- Ghostlight
- Flow
- Piece By Piece
- Queer
- Conclave

Vaughn Swearingen: Step Printed
- The Beast
- Anora
- Evil Does Not Exist
- Challengers
- All We Imagine As Light
- Sing Sing
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- Chime
- No Other Land
- Hundreds of Beavers

Eric Zhu: The Insert
- The Beast
- Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
- Coma
- This Closeness
- Music
- Occupied City
- Janet Planet
- Queer
- Nickel Boys
- The Human Surge 3