2024: MY FAVORITE CINEMATIC EXPERIENCES (RANKED)

I have still not seen as of Dec 31 2024 (mea culpa, mea culpa, mea grandissima culpa):

A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg)
Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola)
Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)
Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross)
The Brutalist (Brady Corbet)
Chime (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)
Nosferatu (Robert Eggers)
Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)
Kneecap (Rich Peppiat)
The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)
Universal Language (Matthew Rankin)
Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhang-ke)
All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia)

Critecariat’s darlings that I found truly...