From a steamy tennis love triangle to an admirable sci-fi sequel – our picks for the films that delighted us, delighted us and carried us through the first half of the year
we had a bus accident Mark the middle of 2024, and already, moviegoers were treated to a tennis-fueled love triangle, an everyman hero cleaning toilets, an animated buddy drama, and Timothée Chalamet in messiah-complex mode. Was. A batch of holdovers from the following year’s contest/awards circuit were given wide releases in the following six months in any case, and Hollywood studios were still looking a little vulnerable in the post-strike lull and reliance on tentpole franchises. Have been. , several medium-sized vendors and manufacturing corporations (A24, Mubi, Neon) have managed to fill the must-see gap. Certainly, it’s tempting to look back over the past six months and ruminate on the moment of film as a popular art form – a hobby that, in the first quarter of the 21st century, is as enduring as going to the movies themselves. However, the highlights of the first half of the year were so undeniably top-notch, the standout work so exhilarating and remarkable, that it’s impossible not to write off this entire “moving pictures” offering as a relic or a wash. We’d rather watch 10 movies than anything else we’ve published in 10 years.
This is a list of our favorite movies of 2024 so far, unranked and in alphabetical order. (Honorable mentions and warm wishes neatly added to: The Animal Kingdom, Furiosa, Green Border, Collision Guy, I Saw TV Radiance, In a Violent Nature, Last Night with the Devil, Love Lies Bleeding, Foundation, And the promised land,
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‘Challenger’
Luca Guadagnino’s duet The fit of tennis drama and tortured love-triangle romance provides the best performances from its holy trinity of young actors, while also adding a significant amount of warmth to a story in which backhands lend themselves as foreplay. It confirms that Zendaya isn’t just a celebrity, but a force of nature when given the anticipation of naming photos that were the inspiration for Mike Feist’s Fast-Track Champion and Josh O’Connor’s charming Burnout and Understanding works as both; Proves that nothing beats a neatly played game; And pioneered the field with the most homoerotic churro in film history. Know the complete overview.
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‘La Chimera’
talking about passion O’Connor: British actor faces hell in 2024 because of each Challengers And this brilliant, almost mystical drama from Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher (satisfied as lazaro), a pair of British archaeologists who occasionally shine as gravediggers. He’s gifted with a sixth sense for locating tombs filled with historical – and profitable – artifacts, which makes his aging style a boon for his aging partners in crime. On the other hand, it’s heartbreak, not greed, that motivates this thief, and the way O’Connor transforms his old, ’70s arch anti-hero into a man of constant torment is revelatory. An utterly dazzling, heart-wrenching story about someone stealing from an old date, yet being doomed to never get it back. Know the complete overview.
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‘Don’t expect too much of the end of the world’
where in the The ending doesn’t end with a bang, but with a TikTok post featuring a fake incel bragging about his amazing sex month. Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude’s biting satire may catch our wave more quickly than almost any alternative film of a few years; Its name is also a mouthful, but the more accurate name is Apocalypse Now Sadly, this has already been said. Following Angela (Ilinka Manolache), a Bucharest-based manufacturing worker frantically working through a futile process at the time, this anarchic comedy follows this gig-economy worker’s wage-slavery by the month during the authoritarian Ceaușescu regime. Compares and includes the realization that only the calendar dates have been modified. Angela’s social-media rant about her alter ego – a toxic-guy cool animated movie called Bobita – couldn’t be more seriously hilarious than this. The film’s climax, in which we see a dead man’s community go wild and the truth gets hijacked, really couldn’t seem more disturbing. Know the complete overview.
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‘Dune: Part 2’
denis villeneuve make just right – Very That’s right – on the commitment of a 2021 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Doorstopper from the sci-fi booklet, picking up where he left off (more or less at the mid-range level of age reserve) and digging into the themes of energy, morality, revolution and What happens when a reluctant messiah embraces his future not neatly but too neatly? You get a tougher Timothée Chalamet, a really psychotic Austin Butler, a moody Florence Pugh, and twice as many sandworms. More importantly, you get to see Villeneuve loom large in the world he crafted from Herbert’s prose and do justice to the scope and scale and sheer strangeness of this stoner-lit touchstone, as said goes, its edges have been sanded. It’s unapologetically geeky, and twice as unapologetically cinematic. Know the complete overview.
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‘How to have sex’
a timeless film What initially smells like a recognizable Young Spirit (i.e. a passage between evil frame splashes, rail-booze photos, and pheromones) before taking a particularly bland flip, is British writer-director Molly Walker’s The first film rides shotgun as a tender girl named Tara (Mia McKenna-Bruce) goes wild with her friends in the coastal Greek town of Malia. She has a fellow spring breaker and then her scene at the door, a pleasant dude-bro nicknamed “Badger” (Shawn Thomas). Near the dawn of the heavy night, on the other hand, no one knows where he is. And when she finally returns to her friends, we get a glimpse of how a bad resolution suddenly casts a bleak shadow over this entire dazzling tour. Walker knows how to handle such issues without being sensationalist, while also tenderly portraying the tension and sensitivity that represented female friendship at the time, which helps save the film from turning into a fluffy, sunburnt tragedy. McKenna-Bruce, on the other hand, is the one who makes intercourse It feels like you’re watching an uncomfortably personal, almost poetic home movie of a sleepover being transformed into a horror story. Know the complete overview.
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‘Janet’s Planet’
pulitzer winning playwright annie Baker steps behind the camera and takes the oath on mother-daughter relationships, creating a twin persona about a hippie-ish Fresh England mother (Julianne Nicholson) and her 11-year-old child (newcomer Zoe Ziegler). Because they spend the summer navigating a particularly fraught push-pull dynamic. Like his degree paintings, Baker’s directorial debut is full of long silences, gray areas, and issues left unspoken; It’s also a testament to the power of leaving issues unresolved, as an adolescent tries to piece together a sense of an adult world that, frankly, has become just as international in its greedy, insatiable search as mom or dad. As much as happens with him. An excellent short work. Know the complete overview.
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‘Perfect day’
legendary eastern actor Koji Yakusho gives a career-best performance as Hirayama, a middle-aged man who cleans crowded toilets for a living. He’s the kind of secret civil servant who’s plying his trade in massive cities through the region with both professionalism and anonymity, but Yakusho and filmmaker Wim Wenders give us a long glimpse inside this every-month — and the results. There’s a soft, gentle portrait of someone who has truly embraced the carpe diem mentality. for so many people very good days‘ In the ongoing times, the star does not seem to be “acting”. He laughs, tears in his eyes for a moment, he plays a game of tag under the influence of beer. And the closest Yakusho hits you with a sucker punch courtesy of a close-up that stuns you. Know the complete overview.
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‘Robot Dreams’
Do Androids Dream? Of electric sheep? A bigger question: What if their REM cycles were filled with the same thoughts of affection and loneliness and hopes and fears as the rest of humans? According to Sarah Varon’s suggestive 2007 booklet, Pablo Berger’s animated buddy drama treats that concept as a given idea, pairing an anthropomorphic dog and his few-assembly-required robotic best friend as they A fantastic animated film set around Fresh York Town. An upcoming incident separates the two inseparable friends, moments pass, and the arena wanders by. The question is not what happens to robots and dogs before the last moments of one summer and the beginning of another, nor what desires might come before the nearest one—even if the various flights of blinkers imagined in the film Grimm Fairy— The narrative runs a remarkable gamut from nightmare to Busby Berkeley extravaganza. That’s what’s going to happen when the two friends stumble upon each option once again. A touch: Keep several gardens of tissues on hand. And know that you’ll never hear Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September” the same way again. Know the complete overview.
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‘The taste of things’
Dodin Bouffant (Benoît Magimel) is a renowned French connoisseur who spends his days studying the science of food when he’s not indulging in long, sumptuous lunches with like-minded obsessives. Eugenie (Juliette Binoche) has been his home cook for twenty years. They have spent years fostering a mutual love of cooking as the nineteenth century draws to a close, knowing that tragedy will inevitably soon knock on their door. French-Vietnamese filmmaker Tran Anh Hung gives us an epic valentine to the kitchen feature, allowing the audience to enjoy long, mouth-watering sequences of food, carefully crafted to resemble love scenes. Can make such films. But to view this erotic film as just five-star food porn is to miss the way in which the writer-director and his dynamic duo combine the intimacy of cooking with culture, love, the realms around us. It’s a film that celebrates how the month is shorter but also sweeter — and that there’s such an ease in sharing and savoring that it has to do with business somehow. Know the complete overview.
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‘Totem’
coming of age motion pictures Constantly running the gamut from sentimental to sentimental—Mexican filmmaker Leila Avilés takes the road less traveled with this story of a woman (Naima Santis) who vows to visit her terminally ill father at a later date. Which depends on the way his kingdom and his community support him, and this gives him additional benefits. This is a movie about death that is full of month, a soft drama that somehow never collapses under its own weight or we might struggle to spin the wheel altogether. It ends with a birthday celebration that you realize will be a later celebration of the celebrant, as revealed through the eyes of a child but treated with a sensitivity that really is. Reflects an artist with a humanist sensibility. Know the complete overview.
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