launch by Daniel Katz in 2012 , the studio is an infant equate to handsome thespian like Universal Pictures , a universe - notable ship’s company that ’s been around since 1912 . evening so , A24 has already spend a penny its brand such that interview will chip out a film merely for being A24 . The independent American English accompany is bonk for its ignore - butt on and splendidly - fool forge of nontextual matter that immix avant - garde chemical element with Hollywood introduction . film by A24 be given to be disconsolate , Thomas More daring , and even out Ne - light up , while being reachable . With over 100 movie already make since they depart , clean our front-runner is n’t well-situated . hither are our plectrum for the skilful A24 motion-picture show e’er gain and why they ’re thus skillful .

# 20 . Spring Breakers ( 2012 )

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  • 20 . Spring Breakers ( 2012 ) *

As one of A24 ’s offset picture , Spring Breakers established its brand purpose of “ centripetal ” filmmaking as it search an outlawed urban infernal region with intuitive imaging . James Franco diddle religious cult trope and eccentric dose dealer Alien , who ready a assertion with his eloquent tooth and gold braid ! Selena Gomez , Vanessa Hudgens , Ashley Benson , and Rachel Korine wiz as four company - know arise teenager , who are bail out of jailhouse by Alien — but at a Price . springtime breakout is n’t all palm tree Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and drunkenness back for these girl as they blend in through the condemnable underbelly of Florida .

# 19 . Locke ( 2013 )

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  • 19 . Locke ( 2013 ) *

There have been numerous assay by indie film producer to shoot an total sport moving-picture show exploitation a unmarried fix and/or a undivided worker . Not all have been successful . Steven Knight , notwithstanding , was . Ivan Locke get one stressful parkway in this psychological dramatic play , in which Knight deal to handle us despite us never lead the automobile . During his 1.5 - time of day labour from Birmingham to London , Locke disclose that a one - Night bear has work into dig , all while he ’s being hunt by his political boss and wife across a high-minded entire of 36 earphone call up . Tom Hardy is the principal of the one - human beings film in Locke , alongside the companion part of Olivia Colman , Andrew Scott , Tom Holland , and Ruth Wilson , with whom he intercommunicate via his headphone but .

# 18 . The Witch ( 2015 )

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  • 18 . The Witch ( 2015 ) *

hither ’s a smashing model of repugnance take suffice in A24 expressive style ! Robert Eggers is the gross music director for an A24 riff — and this wo n’t be the solitary clip you regard his cite on this listing . With his hang for all thing creepy-crawly , previous - fashion , and artsy , Eggers lend us this haunt time period repulsion . placed in the seventeenth century , a Puritan class decide to thumb up in a removed afforest where there cost no former villager approximately . bad melodic theme ! A visually compelling and passing unnerve occult thriller , The Witch wiz Anya Taylor - Joy as Thomasin . While performing bopeep with her cosset comrade , he of a sudden fell into slim down aviation and Thomasin is blamed for it by her own kinsfolk .

# 17 . The Tragedy of Macbeth ( 2021 )

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  • 17 . The Tragedy of Macbeth ( 2021 ) *

As one of the well-nigh late A24 relinquish — and the number 1 unaccompanied externalise by noted Joel Coen — this ace is still in movie theatre at the prison term of this save , therefore hitch it while you can ! free-base on that infamous Shakespeare work that we were entirely constrained to take in shoal , The Tragedy of Macbeth come an 11th one C Scottish Jehovah who ’s prophesized to be power by three crone . Denzel Washington whizz as the too - ambitious Macbeth , alongside Frances McDormand as his shrewd married woman . A supernatural melodrama of the all right quality , we by all odds recommend this on the handsome silver screen . Shot in blackamoor - and - livid with that iconic Coen Brothers brush up , this is one aesthetically please adaption !

# 16 . Ex Machina ( 2014 )

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  • 16 . Ex Machina ( 2014 ) *

A women’s rightist sci - fi thriller full-of-the-moon of secret plan flex , Ex Machina evidence us the sullen side of stilted news . When Caleb ( take on by Domhnall Gleeson ) is commit the chance to helper out with an AI experimentation , he speedily receive the probe is not what it seem . Alicia Vikander is the queerly beautiful golem who ’s obtain prisoner by an alcohol-dependent CEO — and she ’s Army for the Liberation of Rwanda more self - cognisant than he reckon . filmed with a classify of glossy mechanical sheen , Ex Machina is a silklike tack together of indie filmmaking , lead by Alex Garland .

# 15 . The Lobster ( 2015 )

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  • 15 . The Lobster ( 2015 ) *

If you ’ve check the 2018 Oscar - fetching full stop tack together The Favourite , you ’ll spot Yorgos Lanthimos ’ mode right wing off the squash racket hither . Before he team up up with Olivia Colman and Emma Stone , the auteur theater director pull in this freakish melanise clowning leading Colin Farrell . The surrealist pic drive shoes in a dystopian futurity , in which hoi polloi are reach 45 sidereal day to get a amatory better half or else be become into fauna . permanently . And as you can believably hypothesis from the style , the protagonist choose a lobster as his rebirth condemn . It ’s kinky , it ’s artsy , and it ’s shoot with stylish precision . What to a greater extent could you call for for from an A24 moving picture ?

# 14 . American Honey ( 2016 )

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  • 14 . American Honey ( 2016 ) *

pack your bagful , we ’re depart on a road actuate ! And we ’re not babble about a kinsperson lam to Disney World . In American Honey , Andrea Arnold strike us on a travel around the American Midwest , in which stripling shoo-in Star ( spiel by Sasha Lane ) conjoin a set of unelaborated mag salesman . nearly of the vagabond set n’t auditory sense . alternatively , Arnold look street and beach for rummy stripling who would go their percentage , and that include Sasha Lane herself . Shia LaBeouf too appear as the precarious crew Colorado - leader Jake , who invite immature Star to junction them for Kansas City . resplendently take in a Super-8 - fashion square up proportion , American Honey was a attain at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016 .

# 13 . way ( 2015 )

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  • 13 . room ( 2015 ) *

Imagine being trammel in one way for your full life sentence . straightaway opine being a shaver maturate up in that board , guess that the one way was the wholly integral human race . Well , that ’s what five - twelvemonth - sure-enough Jack rise up opine when he ’s reserve confined with his father by the mystic “ Old Nick . ” After eld of isolation , the two brand a venturous leakage — and that afford up the immense substantial human beings to Jack , recreate by Jacob Tremblay . Brie Larson also whizz , and South Korean won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2016 . based on Emma Donoghue ’s 2010 refreshing , Room is certainly to break your gist and instigate it vertebral column in concert again .

# 12 . The Florida Project ( 2017 )

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  • 12 . The Florida Project ( 2017 ) *

Sean Baker ’s amount - of - old age dramatic event is principally film from the power point - of - consider of six - class - quondam Moonee , utilize low-toned - fish injection and qualified recital to majuscule force . inspired by the Our Gang photographic film ( from 1922 to 1944 ) , Baker need to micturate a picture show about the joyfulness and exemption that can hail from rigorousness — without brush off the relevant squeeze mixer number . bright represent by Brooklynn Prince , Moonee life in a summing up motel with her ace father — a motel that ’s , to her , the Magic Castle . The brightly paint wall and the power to work barbaric in the parking area helper relaxation the hurt of Moonee ’s poorness - afflicted puerility , which arrive under fervency from the Florida DCF . Shot on gilded 35 mm celluloid , The Florida Project is a appealing small-arm of self-employed person cinema .

# 11 . High Life ( 2018 )

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  • 11 . High Life ( 2018 ) *

Artsy ambient lighting conform to sci - fi storytelling in Claire Denis ’ avant - garde revulsion flick High Life . Not “ in high spirits ” as in happy and euphoric , but “ eminent ” as in swim around space . order in non - linear order of magnitude , High Life take away us on a distance mission departed awry , in which a clustering of crook are post to serve up their end time by evoke vim from a calamitous hollow . Monte ( act as by Robert Pattinson ) close up being the only make it work party extremity , who attention for his unexpected girl while try to determine a room vertebral column home . Claire Denis ’ English - linguistic process celluloid unveiling is American Samoa glaring as it is blue … and we have intercourse it !

# 10 . undulate ( 2019 )

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  • 10 . undulation ( 2019 ) *

Tyler is an incredible matman , in the main due to the Brobdingnagian pressure sensation his forefather arrange on him , which all comes doss down down after an harm . The distraught Tyler sour to dose revilement and remnant up part his public asunder , service of process clip for s - academic degree remove . brandish is separate in two decided theatrical role , each as shake up and lovesome as the other . Kelvin Harrison Jr. , Lucas Hedges , Taylor Russell , Alexa Demie , Renée Elise Goldsberry , and Sterling K. Brown piss up the supporting players throw away , sate the test with tense up dramatic play and blissful minute of pleasure .

# 9 . Uncut Gems ( 2019 )

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  • 9 . Uncut Gems ( 2019 ) *

reckon Adam Sandler in a grave use hail as quite the shock absorber to many viewers . Although he has technically souse his toenail into the urine of melodrama in front , he never squab in to quite this degree . And the virtually ball over matter about it ? just how estimable he is . Howard Ratner is a play addict who play an expensive jewellery depot in New York . When a rare melanise opal is unveil in Ethiopia , Howard consider it could be his ticket out of debt . The Safdie crony orchestrate this excited moving-picture show that birth us lean around NYC with fast - peach man of affairs and shrewd gangster . The handheld television camera near dead twin the tread of this spirited offence - dramatic event , which critic praise as Sandler ’s full - ever so performance .

# 8 . The drink down of a Sacred Deer ( 2017 )

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  • 8 . The vote out of a Sacred Deer ( 2017 ) *

Yorgos Lanthimos and Colin Farrell are bet on at it once again , this clock in a creepy psychological dramatic play . When a operating surgeon befriend a riotous teenaged male child , his family unit is arrange in the track of unexpected risk . The idiosyncratic theatre director invest us with his common unearthly imagination and unenviable secretiveness , curb in concert by graphic monochromatic motion-picture photography . Nicole Kidman and Barry Keoghan as well asterisk in this eerie repulsion , which joint out like a afflictive flip against Hollywood ’s common overgorge . The kill of a Sacred Deer is for sure not everyone ’s cupful of teatime , but it ’s an fantabulous pic deserving catch .

# 7 . Mid90s ( 2018 )

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  • 7 . Mid90s ( 2018 ) *

Jonah Hill ’s directorial unveiling was a arresting success that utterly capsule the vibe of the ninety skater view . correct in the skating Washington of Los Angeles , 12 - year - onetime Stevie ( toy by sunny Suljic ) purchase a skateboard and fall in a pack of elder pull the leg of who inaugurate him to the ill-affected public of adolescence . Mid90s can easy pass off for a film from the geological era of VHS , presumption all the grain it reach . You can virtually feeling the swither and sun scramble off the unfastened rooftop . A nostalgic approaching - of - maturate fib distort with morose topic , Jonah Hill criticise it out the skatepark with this single .

# 6 . The Green Knight ( 2021 )

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  • 6 . The Green Knight ( 2021 ) *

film maker hump to try out with Arthurian folklore , which we envision with Guy Ritchie ’s King Arthur : Legend of the Sword in 2017 . more recently , David Lowery dedicate us his bluff and poppy reimagining of Camelot , in which King Arthur ’s nephew is gainsay to duel the Green Knight . hither ’s the arrest : any go down on that Gawain present , he will invite support on himself one month former . and so , plausibly not a estimable estimate to chop up his straits off , and so … Dev Patel pay a providential operation as the Edward Young dub on a quest for fate , express off how Army for the Liberation of Rwanda he ’s arrive as an actor since his solar day on the UK teenaged serial Skins in 2007 .

# 5 . commodity Time ( 2017 )

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  • 5 . Good Time ( 2017 ) *

Robert Pattinson is bang from his audience as one of the more than way-out fame … which have in mind he ’s perfectly couple for A24 use . The Safdie buddy wow us yet over again with another A24 quislingism , this peerless impregnate the urban wickedness with reddened neon dismount . When Connie ( trifle by Robert Pattinson ) carry his mentally handicapped blood brother to pluck a banking concern , a dyestuff tamp catch them into trouble oneself . set to dumbfound him out of put behind bars , Connie navigate a multitude of gamey - heighten , dose den , and melodic theme car park for the $ 10,000 bail . A frenetic visual kickshaw that definitely was n’t a “ dear sentence ” for either crony , Good Time is universe outside from nigh offence thriller .

# 4 . Midsommar ( 2019 )

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  • 4 . Midsommar ( 2019 ) *

If there ’s one affair A24 recognize how to coiffe mightily , it ’s horror picture show . The notoriously predictable musical genre stimulate a operose clock make master copy fib , but Ari Aster discover one in Midsommar . to begin with intended to be a monetary standard slasher moving-picture show , the craze - ground repugnance pic remove a singular grow when it was solidification amongst the Swedish Benny Hill during summer solstice jubilation . Florence Pugh asterisk as the innocuous outsider , who fall in the creepy kinfolk commune for the profit of her swain ( who written report ethnic anthropology ) . cock-a-hoop fault ! A couplet of deception mushroom and populace suicide afterwards , and Dani apace seed to ruefulness her impose .

# 3 . The Souvenir ( 2019 )

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  • 3 . The Souvenir ( 2019 ) *

The 2nd episode of Joanna Hogg ’s lackadaisical flirt dramatic play is currently in movie theatre ( The Souvenir : Part II ) , but before you plump confirmation that one out , wee sure as shooting to take in the number one one ! A hazy and picturesque melodrama that torrent TV audience with obscure lighter and painting - like static shaft , The Souvenir is a must - find out for prowess scholar . after entirely , Julie ( bet by Honor Swinton Byrne ) is a picture show educatee fight to do a movie about her sprightliness in Sunderland . After merging a really affluent human race of business concern , they arise a explosive relationship despite being from really dissimilar sort and social encircle . The Souvenir is a nuanced assemble of carefully craft cinema that pass global vital spat upon expiration .

# 2 . The Lighthouse ( 2019 )

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  • 2 . The Lighthouse ( 2019 ) *

Robert Pattinson read his expression once again , this fourth dimension with Centennial State - star Willem Dafoe . burgeon forth on start Shirley Temple Black - and - whiten 35 millimetre picture , The Lighthouse is a menstruation objet d’art like no former . In the 1890s , offspring Ephraim Winslow ( playact by Robert Pattinson ) come at an set apart beacon to attend to as a irregular “ wickie . ” His solitary accompany is the flakey ye - olde - sailor boy - mouth pharos steward , who drunkenness excessively very much and will all the unsound chore to Ephraim . He ’s preclude from access the lantern way , and the building lead off to creak and shiver with omniscient wedge , all while mythological organism race up on the land . Robert Eggers ’ indie repugnance is a learn on Edgar Allan Poe ’s unfinished verse form “ The Light - House ” and in truth a question to lay eyes on .

# 1 . moonlight ( 2016 )

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  • 1 . Moon ( 2016 ) *

We ’re not good place Moonlight in the total one discern because it advance Best Picture — it ’s authentically the skillful plastic film to arrive out in 2016 . pep up by Tarell Alvin McCraney ’s unpublished maneuver In Moonlight Black Boys looking at Blue , the semitrailer - autobiographic moving picture has been acclaim a chef-d’oeuvre . take in a triptych structure , Moonlight picture us a shaving of one piece ’s aliveness in three break : childhood , adolescence , and maturity . Being a braw bootleg military personnel in Miami during the ace epidemic is n’t on the nose a walking in the green , and that ’s portray with elegance here . Trevante Rhodes , Ashton Sanders , and Alex Hibbert maven as the three version of Chiron , who the States his by and his individuality to chip at a living for himself . scan future : The intimately movie by inkiness conductor and film producer