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The 50 best films of 2024
Our round-up of the best movies of the year, as voted by our contributors, finds a dazzling array of cinematic wonders from around the world, from the return of old masters to a rich trove of breakthroughs.
The best films of 2024 – all the votes
The best films of 2024 – all the votesA Complete Unknown: a heartfelt and dutiful biopic of Bob Dylan’s formative freewheelin’ years
By Leigh Singer
Payal Kapadia on winning Sight and Sound’s best films of 2024 poll with All We Imagine as Light
By Payal Kapadia
Favoriten: the classroom becomes a model for society in Ruth Beckermann’s compassionate doc
By Sophia Satchell-Baeza
Grand Theft Hamlet: a play inside a video game? Madness, but there’s method in it
By Gayle Sequeira
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl: Rungano Nyoni finds elegant magic in the most painful places
By Leila Latif
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“It was fairly anarchic…” Nick Broomfield recalls Greek cinema under the stars with all-natural extras
By Nick Broomfield
Ten key cinema workers on the way out of lockdown
By Katie McCabe and Isabel Stevens
Let there be projector light: 80 films that take us inside cinemas
By Thomas Flew
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Keeping a distance: Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman
By Janet Bergstrom
An audience with Howard Hawks
By Joseph McBride and Michael Wilmington
Rhapsody in blue: Barry Jenkins on Moonlight
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