Letterboxd's Highest Rated Movies Of 2024

Letterboxd is a film-cataloging social media site. Initially embraced by die-hard cinephiles when it launched in 2011, the platform spent more than a decade in the internet’s wilderness before enjoying a meteoric rise in the last few years. As outlined in a great article by Robert Steiner, published by Variety earlier this week, Letterboxd now counts more than 17 million users, according to its most recent end-of-year report, up from 1.8 million just four years ago. Not only has its user base boomed, particularly postpandemic, but the platform’s engagement has also skyrocketed. Last year, 96.4 million reviews were posted on the site — more than 100x the figure recorded a decade prior — with the number of films watched, ratings, lists, and comments doubling in the past two years alone.

So, with awards season upon us, what defined the movies that millions of critical cinephiles rated most highly in 2024? Sandworms, shipwrecked robots, and, er, hundreds of beavers.