A24 is an independent film studio, but don't call any of its movies "indie." Found💞ed in 2012, A24 is the product o🐻f Hollywood vets Daniel Katz, John Hodges, and David Fenkel. With a vast library of critically acclaimed features, which ones actually stand out as the greatest the studio has ever released?
While critics panned its first theatrical release, Roman Coppola's 2013 film A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, the studio slowly but surely built positive momentum with movie൲s like The Bling Ring (directed by Sofia Coppola) and The Spectacular Now (directed by James Ponsoldt). In 2013, A24 s🐟cored its first buzzy box office hit in Spring Breakers, a neon-colored, bikini-clad crime drama directed by Harmony Korine.
Today, A24 is one of the most prolific production and distribution entities in Hollywood, with its fingerprints also in television and music. It is synonymous with originality, known for launching the carﷺeers of artistically minded new directors like Robert Eggers, Greta Gerwig, Barry Jenkins, Ari Aster, and Yorgos Lanthimos, while also giving established filmmakers like Da꧋rren Aronofsky and Sofia Coppola a whole new canvas to create.
In celebration of A24's continuing legacy, here are 32 of the greatest A24 movies ever ✤released.
32. After Yang (2021)
In thi🐟s powerfully affecting sci-fi drama starring Colin Farrell and Jodie-Turner Smith, a family in the near future try to repair their malfunctioning android son, Yang (Justin H. Min), who was purchased from a reseller. In doing so, th✨ey discover Yang's wishes to be human, and themselves reckon with feelings of grief, loss, memory, and impermanence. Writer/director Kogonada expands upon similar themes from his acclaimed 2017 debut Columbus in this realistic yet speculative vision of our near future.
30. The Disaster Artist (2017)
The making of the infamous cult movie The Room from writer/director Tommy Wiseau unfolds in The Disaster Artist, a biopic based on ꦡGreg Sestero's memoir. James Franco stars as Tommy Wiseau, an eccentric immigrant dreamer 𝄹who starts production of a movie that goes on to earn recognition as one of the worst movies of all time. James Franco's brother Dave Franco co-stars in the movie as Greg Sestero, an aspiring actor who aids Wiseau in making his dreams come true. In this story about unlikely friendships and managerial chaos, The Disaster Artist amounts to more in its exploration of what actually defines art.
25. Ex Machina (2015)
Alex Garland's Ex Machina is one of the first truly great horror-thrillers of the 21st century to take on Silicon Valley's rampant misogyny. Domnhall Gleeson stars as a young programmer named Caleb who is invited to meet his company's revered but reclusive boss, Nathan (Oscar Isaac). While at his lavish remote estate, Nathan reveals his top secret project: a lifelike android named Ava (Alicia Vi▨kander). As Caleb realizes the villainy of Nathan, he tries to help break Ava free, but maybe Caleb is but a pawn in this elaborate game of chess. Ex Machina follows in the tradition of classics like Blade Runner and 2001: A Space Odyssey, being a movie about the true nature of consciousness.
