The Best Documentaries of 2024

variety.com:

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic Reality doesn’t bite. Well, okay, at times it does. A number of our choices for the best documentaries of the year capture turbulent realities, ominous politics, and, on occasion, stark tragedy.

That’s one of the missions of nonfiction film: to put us in touch with dark things that are too often hidden away. But our list casts a wider net than that.

It includes tales of hope and daring, of fighting back, of art and inspiration, of the heroism of ordinary people…and extraordinary people.

What the best documentaries of 2024 add up to is nothing less than a feast of reality. An indispensible lesson in digital history that tracks the creation and rise of 4Chan — the online universe where outrageous satires, the bro anarchy of “Jackass” stunts, and a free-floating impotent political rage fused into an “outlaw” stance of permanent rebellion.