The 10 best films of 2024
Our choice of the year’s essential screen entertainment.
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Explore the world of cinema with our selection of film reviews, providing in-depth analysis, thoughtful critiques, and captivating insights into the latest releases and timeless classics.
Luca Guadagnino’s Queer: a sexy thwarted romance
Daniel Craig is cast against type in this stylish adaptation of William Burroughs’ novel. Plus: Nightbitch and We Live in…
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The women behind Humphrey Bogart
The documentary Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes searches for new insights into the actor’s life in his five closest female…
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Conclave: this papal power struggle is high entertainment
Ralph Fiennes gives an all-time best performance in this sumptuous, thrilling drama about appointing a new pope.
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Wicked is a super-sized, elaborate and hip hop-influenced take on the musical
The origin story of The Wizard of Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West arrives two decades after the stage show.…
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Gladiator II is a triumph
In this sequel, chock-full of fighting, Ridley Scott lets his appetite for elaborate action scenes run wild.
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Paddington in Peru loses the magic of the first films
In this third instalment, the bear travels “home” – and the franchise’s feel-good, pro-immigration spirit vanishes.
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Gabriel Sherman: “Donald Trump is older and less sane and angrier”
The screenwriter of the scathing biopic The Apprentice on provoking the wrath of the former president.
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In Heretic, Hugh Grant is a bashful, disarming serial killer
The actor, now firmly in his villain era, is tremendous fun in this preposterous horror.
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The myths of Blitz spirit
Steve McQueen’s new film suggests the Second World War was not simply a time of uncomplicated national unity.
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Pedro Almodóvar’s conflict of interests
The Room Next Door resolves the Spanish director’s struggle between black comedy and bookish melodrama.
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Woman of the Hour: Anna Kendrick’s incoherent true crime drama
Does this Netflix film have anything to say? It’s not clear what its parade of tragedy can tell us.
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The Apprentice: a grotesque, compelling Trump satire
You may think you never want to see a film about Donald Trump. But this tale of his relationship with…
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Timestalker’s cycle of suffering
This “reincarnation spoof” sees a woman endure the same horrors lifetime after lifetime. Sadly, it’s also painful viewing.
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Francis Ford Coppola’s new film may be his greatest delusion
The script of Megalopolis is unspeakable, its tone baffling and its world makes no sense.
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Firebrand is an unhistorical and unforgettable Tudor drama
Alicia Vikander and Jude Law excel in this retelling of Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine Parr.
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Sing Sing is a tender portrait of creativity behind bars
The film stars former inmates playing themselves as they stage a performance on the inside.
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Widow Clicquot review: a sickly sweet champagne story
This is just the latest in a succession of self-congratulatory, syrupy brand movies.
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Hollywoodgate is a glimpse of the Taliban at work
This revelatory film follows two soldiers in Afghanistan during the country’s regime change.
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About Dry Grasses is quintessential slow cinema
This Turkish film is deeply challenging, even boring at times. But it is pretty much a masterpiece.
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