The Best Movie Posters of 2024

December 27, 2024

A round-up of some movie posters we liked this year, in no particular order, let us know if there's anything we missed! Check out Adrian Curry's essential end of year list over at MUBI.

Anora Anora

Anora

Craig Oldham

Vintage sexploitation inspired posters for Sean Baker's Palme d'Or winning hit, displayed at Anora merch pop-ups. To celebrate the release of Anora, we invited Sean to take over our Instagram account for the month of October to share some of his favorite posters from his personal collection, this one inspired the direction for these alternate poster designs. Released by NEON.

Rumours / Sasquatch Sunset / Mother Couch / Hukkle

Aleksander Walijewski

Four by Polish poster artist Aleksander Walijewski. From top to bottom: the official one sheet for Guy Maddin's G7 satire Rumours, released by Bleecker Street; Henri Rousseau inspired artwork for David and Nathan Zellner's Sasquatch Sunset created for the French release of the film; Niclas Larsson's comedy Mother Couch, released by Film Movement / Memory; the one sheet for the new restoration of György Pálfi's Hukkle (2002) with artwork that's as delightfully strange as the film, released by Dekanalog. Walijewski also created an incredible alt poster for last year's Best International Feature Oscar winner The Zone of Interest.

A Different Man

A Different Man

Plakiat

Excellent unofficial alt for Aaron Shimberg's Sundance hit with Sebastian Stan, Renate Reinsve, and Adam Pearson. Released by A24.

A Real Pain A Real Pain

A Real Pain

Plakiat / Madison Coby / Jack Crossing / Intermission Film

Another excellent unofficial alt by Polish poster artist Plakiat for Jesse Eisenberg's A Real Pain (top).

Official UK one sheet (bottom) by Madison Coby (illustration), Jack Crossing (design), Intermission Film (agency).

Released by Searchlight Pictures.

The Substance / The Last Showgirl The Substance / The Last Showgirl

The Substance / The Last Showgirl

Akiko Stehrenberger

Two by Akiko Stehrenberger. Brilliant unofficial alt for Coralie Fargeat's The Substance, referencing the classic My Wife and My Mother-in-Law optical illusion (top, released by MUBI), and another lovely unofficial alt for Gia Coppola's The Last Showgirl (bottom, released by Roadside Attractions).

Kinds of Kindness

Kinds of Kindness

Vasilis Marmatakis

One of the best poster campaigns of the year, designed by Yorgos Lanthimos's regular poster designer Vasilis Marmatakis. Released by Searchlight Pictures.

Hundreds of Beavers

Kyle Hilton

Superbly executed Jack Davis throwback. Released by Cartuna.

A Traveler's Needs / Moving

Brian Hung

Two by Brian Hung. Adrian Curry named Brian's poster for Hong Sang-soo's A Traveler's Needs (top) the best movie poster of the year. One of our favorite movie posters last year was Brian's one sheet for the restoration of Shinji Somai's 1985 film Typhoon Club. This year, Brian created the poster for another Somai restoration, Moving (1993). Released by Cinema Guild.

Nocturnes / Pictures of Ghosts

Sam Smith

Two by Sam Smith. An exquisite limited screenprint for Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan's moth doc Nocturnes (top) and a newspaper ad style one sheet for Kleber Mendonca Filho's doc Pictures of Ghosts. Released by Grasshopper Film.

La Chimera

La Chimera

Tony Stella

Lovely artwork by Tony Stella for one of the best films of the year. Released by NEON.

Between the Temples Between the Temples

Between the Temples

Brandon Schaefer

An inspired nod to the classic one sheet for John Cassavetes' Minnie and Moskowitz. Watch our MUBI Picks at Posteritati episode with Jason Schwartzman. Released by Sony Pictures Classics.

The Beast

Victor de Ladonchamps / Ad Vitam

A surprisingly simple poster for such a complex film with an abundance of visual material to pull from but in the end a startling and evocative choice of image, text and color. Released by Janus Films / Sideshow.

Longlegs / Red Rooms / Booger

Midnight Marauder / Daniel Zender

The year of the red and black horror poster. Official Longlegs screenprint (top), released by NEON. Red Rooms official alt designed by Midnight Marauder, released by Utopia (photos from our after party with director Pascal Plante). Booger official alt designed by Daniel Zender, released by Dark Sky Films.

Je tu il elle

Stefania Malmsten

Striking monochrome design for a new restoration of Chantal Akerman's 1974 film Je tu il elle. Unusual two sided poster with different designs on the front and back. Released by NonStop Entertainment.

Carrie

Carrie

A portrait of a lady on fire. Official U.K. quad for the new restoration of Brian De Palma's Carrie. Released by Park Circus.

Stress Positions

Matt and Mara

Riddle of Fire

Weston Razooli
Yellow Veil Pictures / Vinegar Syndrome

Photos from our reception with Weston Razooli

The People's Joker

Sister Hyde
Altered Innocence

Our best-selling poster of the year

Kim's Video

Chris Bilheimer
Drafthouse Films

Bilheimer built and photographed an exact replica miniature of NYC's iconic Kim’s Video store for the poster.

Didi

Felicia Chiao
Sundance Festival Poster
Focus Features

Good One

Tracy Ma
Limited Edition Lithograph
Metrograph Pictures

Evil Does Not Exist

Janus Films / Sideshow

Afternoons of Solitude

A Contracorriente Films

Queer

B O N D
A24

Ralph Steadman title treatment 👍

Seven Samurai

Sean Phillips / Neil Kellerhouse
Janus Films

The Wages of Fear

Juan Esteban Rodriguez
Janus Films