Chlotrudis Awards members were invited to share their Top movie lists of 2024. See what various members chose as their top films of the year. See how many of their favorites made the final ballot. See if your tastes coincide with any particular Chlotrudis member. If you’re a member, send in your Top films of the year and we’ll include it here.

 

Peg Aloi’s Top 32 Films of 2025 (in no particular order 

Nightbitch
Nightbitch
  • Armand
  • Conclave
  • Perfect Days
  • Tuesday
  • The Substance
  • Queer
  • Nickel Boys
  • Hard Truths
  • Flow
  • Babygirl
  • Last Summer
  • The Devil’s Bath
  • Nightbitch
  • The Outrun
  • The Teachers’ Lounge
  • Sing Sing
  • Evil Does Not Exist
  • Handling the Undead
  • Apartment 7A
  • We Live in Time
  • I Saw the TV Glow
  • A Real Pain
  • Ghostlight
  • Janet Planet
  • Good One
  • Housekeeping for Beginners
  • Rumours

    Wilding
    Wilding
  • Anora
  • Kinds of Kindness
  • The End
  • The Idea of You
  • The Order

Peg’s Top Docs of 2024

  1. Wilding
  2. Porcelain War
  3. Queendom
  4. Sugarcane
  5. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

 

 

Aaron Beatty’s Top 10 Films of 2024

Femme
Femme
  1. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
  2. Femme
  3. Conclave
  4. His Three Daughters
  5. Nowhere Special
  6. Good One
  7. Juror #2
  8. Blitz
  9. Touch
  10. Ghostlight

Runners-Up: September 5, Sing Sing

Top Genre Films Not Already Listed

  1. A Quiet Place: Day One
  2. Babygirl
  3. Desert Road
  4. Magpie
  5. Sleep
  6. Oddity
  7. sRed Room
  8. Heretic
  9. Love Lies Bleeding

 

Julie’s Top Films of 2024 (in alphabetical order)

Club Zero
Club Zero
  • Club Zero
  • Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
  • Egoist
  • Evil Does Not Exist
  • I Saw the TV Glow
  • La Chimera
  • Mother, Couch
  • Omni Loop
  • Perfect Days
  • Sometimes I Think About Dying
  • The Teachers’ Lounge
  • This Closeness
  • With Love and a Major Organ

Julie’s Top Docs of 2024

  1. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
  2. Kim’s Video
  3. Sugarcane
  4. Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat

Not eligible: Secret Mall Apartment

 

Michael’s Top 40 Films of 2024

About Dry Grasses
About Dry Grasses
  1. Evil Does Not Exist
  2. About Dry Grasses
  3. Perfect Days
  4. Here
  5. Janet Planet
  6. Good One
  7. Bird
  8. The Beast
  9. His Three Daughters
  10. Flow
  11. With Love and a Major Organ
  12. Crossing
  13. Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
  14. Egoist
  15. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
  16. Nightbitch
  17. The Teachers’ Lounge
  18. Hard Truths
  19. Sing Sing
  20. Mother, Couch
  21. High Tide
  22. Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
  23. Club Zero
  24. Anora
  25. Sometimes I Think About Dying
  26. In Our Day
  27. Tuesday
  28. So Long, My Son
  29. How to Have Sex
  30. A Traveler’s Needs
  31. Housekeeping for Beginners
  32. I Saw the TV Glow
  33. Robot Dreams
  34. Matt and Mara
  35. The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Past
  36. Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
  37. Mountains
  38. This Closeness
  39. Femme
  40. Rumours

    Majority Rules
    Majority Rules

 

Michael’s Top 5 Documentaries of 2022:

  1. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
  2. Majority Rules
  3. Queendom
  4. Sugarcane
  5. Chasing Chasing Amy

 

 

Chris Kriofske’s Top 23 Films of 2023

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
  1. Do Not Expect Too Much From The End of the World
  2. Pictures of Ghosts
  3. Robot Dreams
  4. Perfect Days
  5. Hard Truths
  6. The Beast
  7. Janet Planet
  8. Flow
  9. Bird
  10. Evil Does Not Exist
  11. The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed
  12. The Old Oak
  13. Between the Temples
  14. Here
  15. The Brutalist*
  16. Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell
  17. His Three Daughters
  18. Anora*
  19. Challengers*
  20. Crossing
  21. The Teachers’ Lounge
  22. The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
  23. Pictures of Ghosts
    Pictures of Ghosts

    A Real Pain*

  24. Hundreds of Beavers
  25. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
  26. About Dry Grasses
  27. Flipside
  28. Good One
  29. The Bikeriders*
  30. Seagrass
  31. Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
  32. La Chimera
  33. It’s Only Life After All
  34. Late Night With The Devil*
  35. Mother, Couch
  36. Sugarcane
  37. The Taste of Things
  38. Thelma*
  39. This Closeness
  40. Close Your Eyes

*not Chlotrudis-eligible, but good!

 

Tom Meek’s Top 10 of 2024

Flow
Flow
  1. Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
  2. Flow
  3. A Complete Unknown
  4. Nickel Boys
  5. Kinds of Kindness
  6. Anora
  7. Civil War
  8. The Beast
  9. Love Lies Bleeding 
  10. The Substance
  11. The Brutalist
  12. Memoir of a Snail
  13. I’m Still Here
  14. Woman of the Hour
  15. Strange Darling

Tom’s Top Docs of 2024:

  1. Queendom
  2. Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
  3. Sugarcane
  4. Porcelain War
  5. Skywalkers a Love Story

 

Brett Reliford’s Top 8 Films of 2024

Nosferatu
Nosferatu
  1. Nosferatu
  2. Kinds of Kindness
  3. Janet Planet
  4. I Saw the TV Glow
  5. Dune: Part Two
  6. The Beast
  7. Hundreds of Beavers
  8. Robot Dreams

 

 

 

Diane Young’s Top 25 Films of 2024 

The Seed of the Sacred Fig
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
  1. Flow
  2. The Seed of the Sacred Fig
  3. The Feeling for Doing Something Has Passed
  4. Nickel Boys
  5. Perfect Days
  6. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
  7. Between the Temples
  8. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
  9. Good One
  10. His Three Daughters
  11. Evil Does Not Exist
  12. The Peasants
  13. Hit Man
  14. The Apprentice
  15. A Real Pain 
  16. Janet Planet
  17. Mother, Couch
  18. Queer
  19. Sing Sing
  20. Union
  21. Origin
  22. The Teachers’ Lounge
  23. Sometimes I Think about Dying
  24. Saturday Night
  25. Memoir of a Snail