Ranking All the A24 Films I've Seen

In anticipation of seeing Bodies Bodies Bodies tonight (review to come soon), I decided to rank all the A24 films I've seen! Instead of ranking them from best to worst, I'm ranking them by tier and there are five tiers: Best of the Best, Very Good/Enjoyable, Not Bad Not Great, Meh, and Worst of the Worst. Since I've seen 44 films and I don't want this blog post to be forever long, I'll just give a 2-3 sentence impression of my thoughts about each movie.

What are your favorites and least favorites from A24?

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Best of the Best

Green Room--Tight, thrilling movie where a punk band faces off against Neo-Nazis after witnessing a murder. I could watch this one over and over.

The Lobster--If Wes Anderson directed a horror movie. People are not allowed to be single/unpartnered and will be changed into an animal if they fail to find a mate.

Lady Bird--Coming of age film set in 2002-2003, which means that I am basically the same age as Christine "Lady Bird" MacPherson. Very relatable, funny, and bittersweet.

First Reformed--An alcoholic pastor discovers a new fire in his belly after a troubling interaction with an environmental activist. Hauntingly beautiful.

Hereditary--Painfully intense horror movie with a shocking twist. This is the movie that made people start to pay attention to A24.

Midsommar--My favorite A24 film, hands down. Impeccable film--beautifully shot, brilliantly acted, surprisingly funny, with a "good for her/uh-oh for her" ending. 

The Lighthouse--Two lighthouse keepers descend into insanity. The definition of folie a deux. 

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Very Good/Enjoyable

Tusk--A man gets surgically altered into a walrus. Yeah, you read that right.

Room--No, not The Room! A woman is kidnapped and kept for years in her captor's soundproof shed. Can she escape for her young son's sake?

The VVitch--Set in 1630s New England, a Puritan family has a witch hunt of their own. Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?

Moonlight--Gorgeously shot coming of age film that follows a Black boy through three stages of his life. Heart-wrenching, beautiful.

The Disaster Artist--The story about the making of the film The Room (no, not Room!). What happens where a man with a mysterious past, zero taste, and seemingly endless funds decides to make his dream project come to life?

The Florida Project--Warts and all portrayal of the lives of children living in a motel in Florida. At times funny, at times cringey, it has been criticized for being "poverty porn", even though it evokes much empathy in viewers (or should).

The Blackcoat's Daughter--A young woman at a boarding school falls under the spell of something sinister. This is a deeply depressing movie.

Gloria Bell--One of those instances where a director remakes his own film, but in another language. Gloria Bell is a vibrant woman in her 50s who falls for a seemingly nice man. 

In Fabric--A dress magically fits everyone who wears it. But unlike the sisterhood of the traveling pants, this dress kills people. A funny, incredibly strange horror films by one of my favorite directors.

Uncut Gems--More like Uncut Anxiety. A jeweler with a gambling addiction attempts to pay his debts before they catch up to him.

Saint Maud--A young woman's religious fervor is her undoing. The final image will haunt you forever.

Zola--Based on a Twitter thread. A young woman travels with a new friend on a "hoe trip". Things don't go as planned.

The Green Knight--A medieval knight seeks a shortcut to honor and glory, but will he lose his head in the process?

X--An adult film crew attempt to secretly film a porno at the rural bed and breakfast they're staying at. Will the old farmer who owns the place and his wife fuck them up before they can get to the fucking?

Everything Everywhere All at Once--A woman mourns for all the lives she could have had, but realizes that she's right where she needs to be.

Men--Men...they're all the same, am I right ladies? 

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Not Great, Not Bad

While We're Young--Gen Xers and Millennials fight. The Boomers win.

Slow West--It takes place in the American West, but I don't remember much else.

20th Century Women--Three generations of feminists and one teenage boy. Hijinks ensue.

It Comes at Night--You think it's going to be a zombie movie, but the real monster are the friends we made along the way.

Under the Silver Lake--A young man searches for a neighbor who goes missing and meets many, many strange people in this wacky neo-noir.

False Positive--Pregnancy brain makes you crazy...or maybe they really *are* out to get you?!

Lamb--A couple decides to raise an unusual lamb as their own child. But what happens when the lamb's parents want her back?

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Meh

The Bling Ring--Rich chicks steal shit from other rich chicks.

Enemy--The ending of this one is just fuckin' weird.

Under the Skin--A beautiful alien seduces men. Like the alien, the movie is beautiful, cold, and empty.

Locke--A man has a conversation as he drives. That's it, that's the movie.

Obvious Child--A woman has a one-night stand that ends in abortion...and maybe love?

Ex Machina--A man is hired to have conversations with a sexy lady robot. Will he forget that she's not human?

Climax--Dancers dance, the punch gets spiked, people go crazy. Very frenetic film--don't watch if you get nauseous easily.

The Hole in the Ground--A young boy discovers an enormous hole in his backyard and comes back...different...after exploring it.

A Ghost Story--Casey Affleck is dead and he walks around with a sheet over his head the whole movie. I'm not even kidding. Also a woman eats a whole pie in one take.

High Life--Pretentious, boring. Criminals in space being used for tests. There's a room in the spaceship called the "Fuck Box". 

The Last Black Man in San Francisco--Didn't hate this one, just felt "meh" about it. A man tries to reclaim the house he grew up in.

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The Worst of the Worst

Life After Beth--I don't remember anything about this movie except Aubrey Plaza is undead and it was boring.

Swiss Army Man--Daniel Radcliffe plays a farting corpse, which seems like something I'd be into, but this movie made me actively angry. Manic Pixie Dream Corpse.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer--More like the killing of two hours of my life I can't get back. INSANELY pretentious and awful. 

The Souvenir--There is a man in this movie who is the WORST and the only good part of the movie is when he dies.

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That's all I got for you! There are still a ton more A24 movies I need to see. Feel free to recommend some to me!