The votes are in, and Time Out’s top ten films of the year have been revealed.
At the top of the list is Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar-winning vision of the Holocaust, The Zone of Interest, a film described by Time Out’s critic as ‘stunning, challenging and disturbing’.
At number two is Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, a riotously funny picaresque starring Emma Stone as a young woman on a journey of sexual awakening across 19th century Europe, and Mark Ruffalo as the year’s biggest buffoon.
Dune: Part Two, Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi sequel, lands at number three, while Andrew Haigh’s ghostly, melancholy and utterly beautiful queer romance All of Us Strangers one place below.
In fifth place is a likely frontrunner for the 2025 Academy Awards: Sean Baker’s Anora, with Mikey Madison as a sex worker whose gig escorting the son of an oligarch goes off the rails in magnificent style.
Here’s the top 10 in full:
- The Zone of Interest
- Poor Things
- Dune: Part Two
- All of Us Strangers
- Anora
- The Substance
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
- About Dry Grasses
- Green Border
- Conclave
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