With so many best-of lists popping out left and right, who has time to read all of them?

Turns out: we do. But because you probably don't, we rounded up all the top 10 lists we could find, smashed 'em together in a big spreadsheet and spat out overall top 10 lists for the year's best books, games and TV shows. You're welcome.

The Best Movies Of 2024

10. 'Conclave'

Speaking as a lapsed Catholic, I'm drawn to films set in Catholic institutions or around Catholic faith, where characters wrestle with tenets and contradictions. "Conclave" gave me little new perspective there (beside Lawrence's speech praising the virtue of doubt), but was I entertained? God, yes. This is the sort of "movies for adults" we need — half-camp, prestige coated thrillers — down to it being based on a page turning novel with a final twist that'll leave your jaw on the floor.

[SlashFilm]

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9. 'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga'

Supposedly one of the year's most anticipated sequels, "Furiosa" was one of several high-profile bombs. But unlike "Joker 2" and "Megalopolis," "Furiosa" delivered the unrestrained talents of its creator in a wholly satisfying form, albeit one different from what audiences expected. "Furiosa" was decidedly not "Mad Max: Fury Road." Instead of a feature-length chase sequence, director George Miller orchestrated a five-part tour of the Wasteland with a stowaway bildungsroman following Furiosa (Alyla Browne as a child, then Anya Taylor-Joy) through a thrilling odyssey.

[AVClub]

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8. 'All We Imagine As Light'

This delicate, achingly wistful story about empathy is an example of the same, and centers on two female nurses and a cook, friends who work at the same hospital in Mumbai. Over the course of the movie, Kapadia shifts between these caregivers who together and separately experience ordinary pleasures, face painful difficulties and find comfort, support and companionship in one another. Every so often, Kapadia, who has also made documentaries, incorporates images of everyday people milling through the city, images that connect her characters to a sea of humanity and, by extension, to those of us watching.

[NYTimes]

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7. 'A Real Pain'

Actor-writer-director Jesse Eisenberg's buddy dramedy about two cousins — one a gregarious and boundary-ignoring hippie type (Kieran Culkin) and the other an uptight neurotic (Eisenberg), both of whom travel to Poland to pay tribute to their late grandmother — confirms that the "Social Network" star has a definite sensibility behind the camera. It also demonstrates his deep understanding about where the intersection between hilarious and poignant lies, as well as being the solid straight man for his let-it-all-hang-out costar. And the way that Culkin turns this hedonistic, overly friendly and emotionally naked screw-up into the film's id, and simultaneously makes you wanna hit him and hang with him, is something to behold — it's a perfect melding of performer and role. Add in an ability to delve into generational trauma without being Pollyanna-ish or maudlin, and the sort of focus on shaggy, difficult characters you associate with '70s American cinema, and you have a real winner.

[Rolling Stone]

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6. 'I Saw The TV Glow'

I loved Jane Schoenbrun's micro-budget debut, "We're All Going to the World's Fair." But "I Saw the TV Glow" is one of the greatest freshman-to-sophomore level-ups I can remember — it's an example of what promising talents can do when you give them freedom and resources. The film, featuring a shy, TV-obsessed teenager named Owen (Justice Smith), is a coming-of-age story about the nightmarish consequences of personal repression. As brutal as it can be, I also found it incredibly inspiring. By portraying the dire costs of playing it safe, Schoenbrun convincingly makes the case that a conservative approach to life isn't safe at all.

[Esquire]

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5. 'The Brutalist'

In today's risk-free Hollywood, wild ambition ought to be rewarded--whether it's Shyamalan's high-end genre fun, or Corbet's big, honking Great American Novel of a movie, whose monumental highs do more than enough to obscure some glaring flaws. "The Brutalist" is a sprawling story about a Hungarian architect (a mesmerizing Adrien Brody) who struggles, then flourishes, then struggles again in postwar America. Over three and a half hours, the movie ponders grand questions of creativity, capitalism and the evolution of Jewish identity in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Corbet's prior films have tackled similarly overwhelming themes with more scattershot results, but "The Brutalist" is a major step up for him as a directorial voice.

[The Atlantic ]

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4. 'Challengers'

"Challengers" must be the most purely pleasurable film of the year so far. Like a great tennis match, it's a clash of sleekly honed bodies and minds, and the question of who finally comes out on top is irrelevant to the fun of the struggle itself.

[Telegraph]

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3. 'Dune: Part Two'

When first reactions for director Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi sequel "Dune: Part Two" first landed online, many were comparing it to the likes of "The Empire Strikes Back" and "The Dark Knight." Apparently, it was that good. And for once, the hype really was lived up to as every single minute of this nearly three hour long epic is absolutely sublime.

[GamesRadar]

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2. 'Nickel Boys'

Five years after scoring an unexpected — and richly deserved — Oscar nomination for his impressionistic documentary "Hale County This Morning, This Evening," former Georgetown Hoya point guard (look it up) RaMell Ross adapts Colson Whitehead's scathing work of historical fiction about the abuses at Florida's Dozier School for Boys with a mix of visionary innovation and rigorous technical finesse.

[The Ringer]

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1. 'Anora'

What if Cinderella's glass slipper sported a 7-inch heel? Sean Baker's screwball comedy about an exotic dancer who impulsively weds a Russian oligarch's son has the energy of 12 vodka Red Bulls, plus some illegal substances. Whoever talks loudest wins, at least for a while, and Mikey Madison's leading lady dares the audience to applaud her agency and grit, plus the brash tactics she uses to limit her own personal exposure.

[LA Times]

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A note on methodology

We wish we could say there was a super fancy algorithm that combed the internet and did this for us. But the truth is that the entity doing the internet combing was a human Digg Editor, and calculations were performed by an Excel sheet that ingested and re-ranked all the lists we fed into it (briefly: #1 ranked items received 10 points, #2 ranked items got 9 points... down through #10 ranked items, which got 1 point; items on unranked lists all got 5.5 points).