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CinemaBlend staffers contributed to the screening log, grading new releases on a scale of one (awful) to five (perfect), and only films viewed by five or more people were kept in consideration for the ranking.

A year where the most celebrated films are as diverse as "Wicked," "The Brutalist" and "Smile 2" is a year movie-lovers are going to remember for a long time. The industry's and the audience's acceptance of wildly disparate films allowed for a host of memorable,

Despite the trend to claim 'no CGI' was used, VFX continued to play a crucial role in most big movies in 2024. It helped create fictional worlds like Arrakis in Dune, fantastical creatures like the xenomorphs in Alien: Romulus and all-out magic in Wicked (also see our pick of the best CGI movie moments of all time).