Every A24 Movie Ranked: The Definitive Worst-to-Best List
March 16, 2026 | Film Chop
Every A24 Movie Ranked — The Complete List From Worst to Best
A24 didn’t just make good movies. They changed what audiences expect from cinema.
Since their first releases in 2013, this independent film studio has produced an absurdly concentrated run of prestige films: they distributed Parasite, the first non-English-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. They produced Everything Everywhere All at Once, which won seven Oscars and became one of the decade’s defining cultural artifacts. They gave us Moonlight, Lady Bird, Hereditary, Uncut Gems, Past Lives — a catalog that would be the envy of studios with ten times the resources.
But not everything with the A24 logo is a masterpiece, and Film Chop’s brand is honesty. The tier system below reflects the full range of A24’s output: from the absolute best of contemporary cinema to the films that didn’t earn the prestige they inherited.
Film Chop’s #1 A24 movie: Everything Everywhere All at Once. That’s the position we’re defending.
For A24’s horror catalog specifically — the studio’s most genre-consistent output — see our dedicated every A24 horror movie ranked guide.
What Counts as an A24 Film?
A24’s role in any given film’s production varies. Transparency about this matters.
A24 produced (full production company): Everything Everywhere All at Once, Hereditary, Midsommar, Lady Bird, Eighth Grade, Moonlight, Past Lives, Minari, Uncut Gems, Waves, Beau Is Afraid, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Talk to Me, X, Pearl, Men, The Witch, It Comes at Night, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Good Time, Mid90s, Civil War, Queer, and the majority of their catalog.
A24 US distributed only (noted [DIST]): Parasite — produced by CJ ENM and Barunson E&A in South Korea; A24 handled US theatrical distribution. Ex Machina — produced by Film4 (UK); A24 distributed in the US. Room — produced by No Trace Camping / Item 7 Productions; A24 US distribution. Saint Maud — Film4 / BBC Film production. This distinction matters for production credit attribution but does not diminish A24’s curatorial role in bringing these films to American audiences.
Films NOT included: The Black Phone — Blumhouse / Universal production, not A24. Bones and All — MGM production. Beef — Netflix TV series, not a film.
This section directly answers the most-searched disambiguation question: Is Parasite an A24 movie? A24 distributed Parasite in the US. The production credit belongs to CJ ENM and Barunson.
The S-Tier — A24’s Absolute Masterpieces
#1: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) — Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (Daniels)
Stars: Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis | RT: 94% (Certified Fresh) | Metacritic: 81 | Audience Score: 88% | Streaming: Showtime/Paramount+ | Box office gross: $69M domestic on a $14.3M budget
A24’s crowning achievement is also one of the most genuinely original films of the century so far. Everything Everywhere All at Once follows a Chinese-American laundromat owner who discovers she must connect with parallel universe versions of herself to save the multiverse — and the film uses this multiverse premise to explore grief, intergenerational trauma, and the immigrant experience with an emotional precision that defies the absurdist surface.
Seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Michelle Yeoh), Best Supporting Actress (Jamie Lee Curtis), Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan). The directorial vision of Daniels is total — every choice, including the wildest formal experiments, serves the film’s emotional core.
Not just A24’s best film. A genuine once-in-a-decade work of cinema.
#2: Parasite (2019) — Bong Joon-ho [DIST]
Stars: Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong | RT: 99% | Metacritic: 96 | Audience Score: 90% | Streaming: Max | Box office gross: $53M domestic
The film that became the first non-English-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture also won the Palme d’Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival — and A24’s distribution made it accessible to the American audiences who drove its Oscar campaign. Production credit belongs to CJ ENM and Barunson E&A; A24’s distribution role is why it appears here at #2 rather than outside this list entirely.
Parasite is a class warfare thriller disguised as a dark comedy disguised as a horror film — Bong Joon-ho builds genre layers that collapse into each other with the precision of architecture. Its cultural impact on American cinema literacy (increased subtitled film viewership, renewed Korean cinema interest) is unmeasured but enormous.
For films like Parasite, see our movies like Parasite guide.
#3: Hereditary (2018) — Ari Aster
Stars: Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff | RT: 79% | Metacritic: 87 | Audience Score: 67% | Streaming: Shudder
→ Full entry in our every A24 horror movie ranked guide. Short version: the directorial vision is complete, Toni Collette’s performance is the best in horror history, the cinematography by Pawel Pogorzelski makes the domestic space feel cosmically wrong. The RT Tomatometer score (79%) underrepresents the film’s importance.
#4: Moonlight (2016) — Barry Jenkins
Stars: Trevante Rhodes, Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris | RT: 98% | Metacritic: 99 | Audience Score: 79% | Streaming: Paramount+
The Oscar upset that defined A24’s awards identity — Moonlight winning Best Picture in the confusion of the La La Land card mix-up is one of cinema’s most surreal public moments, but the film itself is serious and complete. Barry Jenkins tells the story of a young Black man growing up in Miami in three chapters — child, adolescent, adult — with visual poetry and a structural elegance that makes the emotional impact accumulate across the runtime.
Mahershala Ali’s supporting performance won the Academy Award. The directorial vision here is arguably A24’s most purely cinematic achievement. Everything Everywhere earns #1 for scope and ambition; Moonlight earns #4 for perfection within its constraints.
#5: Midsommar (2019) — Ari Aster
Stars: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor | RT: 83% | Metacritic: 72 | Streaming: Prime Video
→ Full entry in A24 horror ranking. The most formally ambitious entry in A24’s horror catalog: shot in daylight, set in Sweden, using folk horror conventions to tell a story about a bad relationship.
The A-Tier — Essential A24 Cinema
Films with genuine greatness — each essential in its own way.
Lady Bird (2017) — Greta Gerwig | Streaming: HBO Max | RT: 99% | Metacritic: 94
Gerwig’s directorial debut remains her best film — a coming-of-age Sacramento story told with such specificity that it achieves universality. Five Academy Award nominations. The film that established Gerwig as one of American cinema’s essential voices.
Minari (2020) — Lee Isaac Chung | Streaming: Prime Video | RT: 98% | Metacritic: 88
A Korean-American family plants a Korean vegetable garden in Arkansas in the 1980s. Won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. One of A24’s quietest productions and one of their most resonant — Steven Yeun has never been better.
Past Lives (2023) — Celine Song | Streaming: Paramount+ | RT: 98% | Metacritic: 95
Celine Song’s feature debut follows two childhood sweethearts across twenty-four years and two continents. Two Academy Award nominations. One of 2023’s most genuinely affecting films. The directorial debut here is as confident as anything A24 has produced.
Eighth Grade (2018) — Bo Burnham | Streaming: Prime Video | RT: 99% | Metacritic: 92
Bo Burnham’s feature debut is the most accurate depiction of contemporary adolescence in recent cinema — not because it’s cynical or satirical but because it’s completely earnest about what being 13 in the age of social media actually feels like. Elsie Fisher is extraordinary.
Uncut Gems (2019) — Safdie Brothers | Streaming: Netflix | RT: 91% | Metacritic: 91
Adam Sandler’s career-best performance in a film that sustains a level of pure anxiety for 135 minutes that no other 2019 film approached. The Safdie Brothers’ directorial vision is total — Uncut Gems is an experience as much as it is a film.
The Witch (2015) — Robert Eggers | Streaming: Shudder | RT: 91%
→ Full entry in A24 horror ranking.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) — Yorgos Lanthimos | Streaming: Prime Video | RT: 79%
→ Detailed in A24 horror ranking. Cold, clinical, genuinely disturbing.
Talk to Me (2022) — Philippou Brothers | Streaming: Max | RT: 95%
→ Full entry in A24 horror ranking. The most accessible elevated horror in A24’s catalog.
Spring Breakers (2012) — Harmony Korine | Streaming: Tubi (free) | RT: 66%
A24’s early provocateur period: Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, and James Franco’s “Spring breaaak” monologue. The film holds up better than you remember if you’ve dismissed it. Korine uses the Disney-adjacent casting as a formal device for examining American hedonism. Art house ambitions wearing a bikini.
Room (2015, A24 [DIST]) — Lenny Abrahamson | Streaming: Max | RT: 94%
Brie Larson won the Academy Award for Best Actress. A24 distributed this Canadian co-production in the US. The film earned every Oscar it received.
The B-Tier — Good A24 Films Worth Your Time
Films with real merit that don’t reach the tier above.
Pearl (2022) — Ti West | Streaming: Max | RT: 97% — prequel to X, Mia Goth’s showcase performance. Full entry in horror ranking.
X (2022) — Ti West | Streaming: Shudder | RT: 80% — Ti West slasher with genuine style. Horror ranking has full treatment.
Ex Machina (2014, A24 [DIST]) — Alex Garland | Streaming: Prime Video | RT: 92%
Alex Garland’s feature debut as director is a contained sci-fi thriller about artificial intelligence, manipulation, and what we mean by consciousness. Won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. Alicia Vikander’s performance as Ava was career-making. One of the decade’s best sci-fi films.
Good Time (2017) — Safdie Brothers | Streaming: Tubi (free) | RT: 90%
Robert Pattinson’s pre-reputation-rehabilitation performance in a New York crime film that runs on adrenaline. Precedes Uncut Gems in establishing the Safdies’ aesthetic. Pattinson is extraordinary.
Waves (2019) — Trey Edward Shults | Streaming: Prime Video | RT: 76%
An emotional gut-punch about a Florida family. The most underseen A24 production on this list. If Minari is A24’s quiet masterpiece, Waves is their overlooked one.
Mid90s (2018) — Jonah Hill | Streaming: Tubi (free) | RT: 83%
Jonah Hill’s directorial debut — a Los Angeles skateboarding coming-of-age film that captures the specific texture of mid-90s childhood culture. Smaller than Eighth Grade, less ambitious, but genuine.
A Most Violent Year (2014) — J.C. Chandor | Streaming: Prime Video | RT: 89%
Oscar Isaac as a heating oil businessman in 1980s New York trying to stay clean while his industry requires otherwise. Chandor’s command of the period is immaculate. Underrated in A24’s back catalog.
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) — Halina Reijn | Streaming: Max | RT: 87%
→ Horror ranking has full entry. Gen Z horror-comedy that works as both.
Civil War (2024) — Alex Garland | Streaming: Max | RT: 82%
Garland’s most divisive film: photojournalists navigate a second American civil war. The film refuses to explain why the war is happening or take political sides — which critics read as evasion and which Garland clearly intends as the point. Visually extraordinary. Thematically contested.
Saint Maud (2019, A24 [DIST]) — Rose Glass | Streaming: Max | RT: 91%
→ Detailed in horror ranking. Slow-burn religious horror that rewards patience.
Under the Skin (2014, A24 [DIST]) — Jonathan Glazer | Streaming: Max | RT: 83%
Scarlett Johansson as an alien predator in Scotland. One of the strangest and most formally rigorous films A24 has touched. Not for every taste; essential for the right one.
The C-Tier — A24 Films That Didn’t Quite Land
Beau Is Afraid (2023) — Ari Aster | RT: 69%
A three-hour anxiety spiral about a man’s relationship with his mother. Contains brilliant sequences — particularly the theatrical-within-the-film segment — and extended indulgences that don’t earn their runtime. The directorial vision is present but unbounded; nobody appears to have told Aster no.
Men (2022) — Alex Garland | RT: 71%
→ Appears in A-Tier in horror ranking (it’s contested). In the full-catalog context, the schematic nature of the allegory places it here for some viewers.
The House (2022) | RT: 76%
Three stop-motion vignettes sharing a house across time. The rat landlord story (vignette 2) is genuinely brilliant. The rest is impressionistic. Worth watching with fast-forward available.
MaXXXine (2024) — Ti West | RT: 83%
The X trilogy’s diminishing returns on full display. The 1980s Hollywood setting is inspired; the screenplay doesn’t match the setting’s potential.
After Yang (2021) — Kogonada | RT: 96%
Beautiful, meditative, and — for a significant portion of its audience — inert. A near-future film about a family and their android caretaker. Kogonada’s cinematography is impeccable; the emotional register is so restrained it sometimes disappears.
The D-Tier — Honest Takes on A24’s Weakest Entries
A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013) — Roman Coppola | RT: 27%
A24’s worst film by Tomatometer is a comedy starring Charlie Sheen, made at the nadir of Sheen’s cultural moment, that works neither as comedy nor as anything else. The production company needed release slate content; this is what that looks like.
Lamb (2021, A24 [DIST]) — Valdimar Jóhannsson | RT: 69%
Promising folk horror premise (Icelandic farmers raise a lamb-child hybrid) that evaporates before its premise can pay off. Beautiful to look at; frustrating to finish.
Zola (2021) — Janicza Bravo | RT: 89%
The critical consensus and Film Chop’s verdict diverge here. Zola is a stylistically accomplished adaptation of a viral tweet thread — but style without substance eventually runs dry, and the film runs dry about forty minutes in. Taylour Paige is charismatic; the film doesn’t give her enough to do.
Brief, fair, non-dismissive — the point is Film Chop has taste, not that these films are worthless.
Every A24 Film in Chronological Order
| Year | Film | Director | Tier | RT Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III | Roman Coppola | D | 27% |
| 2013 | The Bling Ring | Sofia Coppola | C | 61% |
| 2013 | Spring Breakers | Harmony Korine | A | 66% |
| 2014 | Under the Skin [DIST] | Jonathan Glazer | B | 83% |
| 2014 | Ex Machina [DIST] | Alex Garland | B | 92% |
| 2014 | A Most Violent Year | J.C. Chandor | B | 89% |
| 2015 | The Witch | Robert Eggers | S | 91% |
| 2015 | The Blackcoat’s Daughter | Oz Perkins | B | 87% |
| 2015 | Room [DIST] | Lenny Abrahamson | A | 94% |
| 2016 | Moonlight | Barry Jenkins | S | 98% |
| 2016 | 20th Century Women | Mike Mills | A | 91% |
| 2017 | The Disaster Artist | James Franco | B | 80% |
| 2017 | The Killing of a Sacred Deer | Yorgos Lanthimos | A | 79% |
| 2017 | Lady Bird | Greta Gerwig | A | 99% |
| 2017 | It Comes at Night | Trey Edward Shults | A | 88% |
| 2017 | Good Time | Safdie Brothers | B | 90% |
| 2018 | Hereditary | Ari Aster | S | 79% |
| 2018 | Eighth Grade | Bo Burnham | A | 99% |
| 2018 | Mid90s | Jonah Hill | B | 83% |
| 2018 | Suspiria | Luca Guadagnino | B | 62% |
| 2019 | Midsommar | Ari Aster | S | 83% |
| 2019 | Uncut Gems | Safdie Brothers | A | 91% |
| 2019 | Parasite [DIST] | Bong Joon-ho | S | 99% |
| 2019 | Saint Maud [DIST] | Rose Glass | B | 91% |
| 2019 | Waves | Trey Edward Shults | B | 76% |
| 2020 | Minari | Lee Isaac Chung | A | 98% |
| 2021 | The Green Knight | David Lowery | B | 89% |
| 2021 | After Yang | Kogonada | C | 96% |
| 2021 | Lamb [DIST] | Valdimar Jóhannsson | D | 69% |
| 2021 | Zola | Janicza Bravo | D | 89% |
| 2022 | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Daniels | S | 94% |
| 2022 | Men | Alex Garland | A/C | 71% |
| 2022 | X | Ti West | A | 80% |
| 2022 | Pearl | Ti West | S | 97% |
| 2022 | Bodies Bodies Bodies | Halina Reijn | B | 87% |
| 2022 | Skinamarink | Kyle Edward Ball | B | 68% |
| 2023 | Past Lives | Celine Song | A | 98% |
| 2023 | Beau Is Afraid | Ari Aster | C | 69% |
| 2024 | Civil War | Alex Garland | B | 82% |
| 2024 | MaXXXine | Ti West | C | 83% |
| 2024 | Queer | Luca Guadagnino | A | 80% |
| 2025 | Death of a Unicorn | Alex Scharfman | A | 82% |
Raven: Verify and add any A24 releases from 2025 between Q1 and publication.
A24 Films Streaming Right Now
A24’s library rotates across platforms. As of early 2026:
A24 Films on Netflix
Uncut Gems, Minari (verify) — Netflix’s A24 catalog is limited but includes key titles.
A24 Films on Max (HBO)
Moonlight, Everything Everywhere All at Once (verify current), Past Lives, Civil War, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Pearl, Talk to Me, Saint Maud, Men
A24 Films on Prime Video
Ex Machina (DIST), Midsommar, Lady Bird, Good Time, Waves, Minari, Eighth Grade
A24 Films on Hulu
Verify current catalog — Hulu rotates A24 titles.
A24 Films on Mubi and Criterion Channel
MUBI and Criterion Channel carry A24’s art-house and international distribution titles — including several that are harder to find on mainstream platforms. Criterion in particular carries Parasite and several of A24’s festival acquisitions.
A24 Films to Rent
Titles not currently streaming for free: Beau Is Afraid, After Yang, Zola — available for digital purchase/rental on Apple TV, Vudu, Amazon, and Google Play.
Use JustWatch to verify current streaming availability — A24 titles rotate frequently.
A24’s Oscar Films — The Studio’s Awards Legacy
A24’s transformation from independent distributor to Oscar juggernaut is one of film industry’s most remarkable stories:
Best Picture winners:
– Moonlight (2017) — produced by A24; historic upset win
– Everything Everywhere All at Once (2023) — produced by A24; 7 Oscars including Best Picture
– Parasite (2020) — A24 distributed; produced by CJ ENM; first non-English-language Best Picture
Additional Academy Award wins include: Best Actress — Brie Larson (Room); Best Director — Barry Jenkins (Moonlight); Best Actress — Michelle Yeoh (EEAAO); Best Supporting Actors — Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis (EEAAO); Best Original Screenplay — Moonlight; Best Visual Effects — Ex Machina
Festival legacy: A24 titles have won or been nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes (Parasite), premiered at Sundance (The Witch, Hereditary), and dominated TIFF and Telluride. Their film festival circuit presence defines their prestige cinema identity.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the #1 A24 movie of all time?
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) — Film Chop’s editorial verdict. By Metacritic score: Parasite (96). By Rotten Tomatoes: Lady Bird and Eighth Grade both hit 99%. By Academy Awards won: Everything Everywhere with 7. The correct answer depends on the metric, but the Daniels film makes the best case for itself across all of them.
How many movies has A24 made?
A24 has produced or distributed over 100 films since their founding in 2012. The exact number varies depending on whether you count US-only distribution titles, short films, and documentary acquisitions. Their theatrical feature output through 2025 is approximately 80–90 films.
Is Parasite an A24 movie?
A24 distributed Parasite in the United States. The film was produced by CJ ENM and Barunson E&A in South Korea. A24’s US distribution campaign — including their Oscar push — was central to Parasite’s Academy Award win. So: yes, with the production credit caveat that it’s a Korean film with A24 as US distributor only.
What is A24’s most successful film?
Everything Everywhere All at Once — $69M domestic box office on a $14.3M production budget, 7 Academy Awards, and cultural penetration that extended well beyond traditional prestige cinema audiences. By box office gross alone: Hereditary and Uncut Gems both outperformed their budgets significantly. By awards: EEAAO.
What A24 movies are on Netflix right now?
Uncut Gems is the most consistently available A24 title on Netflix. Minari has appeared on the platform; verify current availability via JustWatch as the catalog shifts quarterly.
What is A24’s worst movie?
By Tomatometer: A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (27%). By Film Chop verdict: same. By Metacritic: A Glimpse Inside or The Bling Ring in the early catalog. The good news: A24’s worst films are still more interesting than most studios’ best.
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