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On the cover: The 50 best films of 2024 – how many have you seen? A packed double issue featuring interviews with Luca Guadagnino, RaMell Ross, Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, Robert Eggers, Amy Adams, Guy Maddin, Cate Blanchett and Jesse Eisenberg. Plus, directors including Guillermo del Toro, Wes Anderson and Alice Rohrwacher on their favourite festive films.
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Nickel Boys: RaMell Ross’ radically inventive second feature
RaMell Ross‘ lyrical adaptation of Colson Whitehead's novel adopts the point of view of two teens in a brutal 1960s reform school, asking the audience not to simply observe their reality, but feel it.
By Simran Hans
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl: a thrilling return for Feathers McGraw
By Nick Bradshaw
Better Man: Chimpanzee Robbie Williams brings excitement to an otherwise conventional biopic
By Alex Dudok de Wit
The best video essays of 2024
By Queline Meadows, Will Webb and others
New York letter: Towards a spontaneous cinema
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Festival gems
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Speak-easy: Black hair and make-up on set
By Ann Ogbomo
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Ten key cinema workers on the way out of lockdown
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