The 63 best films of 2024 – so far
From Oscar-winning dramas to purely pleasurable blockbusters, here are our critics’ picks from the first half of the year
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From Oscar-winning dramas to purely pleasurable blockbusters, here are our critics’ picks from the first half of the year
‘Covid madness’ caused the Oscar winner to sign up for the ultraviolent video game adaptation. Then the madness truly began
Based on the Colleen Hoover bestseller, this vacuous film splices abuse and glossy courtship in the big city – to deeply dubious effect
Masterpiece or ‘moral holocaust’? Caligula, the scandalous 1979 Roman epic, has been recut – but can this reimagining silence its critics?
Tony Halicki defied the law – and the laws of physics – to create cinema’s most exciting car chase. His widow recalls his daredevil life
From Oppenheimer, to Amadeus, to Marie Antoinette: which is the fairest biopic of them all? Our critic weighs in
Iconic child star never thought she’d make another film but stars in M. Night Shyamalan’s latest project, Trap
Hollywood has fallen in love with gaming wonderlands – but the most imaginative tales told in video games today defy adaptation
Passionate make-ups, dramatic break-ups and sparkling diamonds: The Bennifer love story has taken a leaf out of Liz and Dick’s book
From Brandon Lee’s death to the gruesome fate of The Omen’s zookeeper, why do we prefer supernatural theories to rational thought?
With filmmakers struggling to bankroll their projects, wealthy fashion brands could be the answer. But does it matter who funds a film?
Time-travelling slackers doing Beckett? Here’s why the stars reuniting to tackle the dark existential comedy might actually work
The outspoken Shazam! star has been criticised for his views on faith, Trump and Covid vaccines. How does he still have a career?
How a foul-mouthed Julie Andrews, a combative Walt Disney and a ‘walking icicle’ author somehow made a children’s classic to warm the heart
Plummeting ratings, humourless celebrities… No wonder Jimmy Kimmel doesn’t want to come back. Time to call Ricky Gervais?
Even in 2024, actors with dwarfism are cast as comic relief, fantastical beings – or, in the case of the new Time Bandits, not at all. Why?
Superhero movies stand accused of ruining Hollywood – but they’ve also saved it. Here, according to our critic, are the mightiest ever made
The magazine’s popular YouTube series is perfect publicity for ‘down to earth’ stars. But are the homes as ‘authentic’ as the owners claim?
Rather than kowtowing to one group, Hollywood’s studios are now going out of their way not to alienate anybody
The unshockable actress does battle with Dickens (and other difficult men) as she returns to the stage, aged 83
Former wrestler Hulk Hogan’s latest publicity stunt is reminiscent of his mortifying bid to run for the 2000 Presidential campaign
Despite Squibb’s title-character status, Thelma herself never amounts to more than a twinkly, wacky grandma in this soft-touch indie comedy
Heroism, acts of unimaginable brutality, rollicking action… The best war films ever made have all this and more