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The 10 Best Movies of 2024 (So Far)
Film critics Owen Gleiberman and Peter Debruge name their best movies so far in 2024, including the sequels to 'Dune' and 'Inside Out.'
That’s not necessarily a bad thing in terms of the cultural conversation (“Milk” helped defeat Prop 8, after all, and once-punk Pedro Almodóvar is now one of your mom’s favorite filmmakers), and yet, “Femme” boldly leans into the edgier aspects of queer lust, unpacking the twisted attraction between a drag performer (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) and the closeted scally lad (George MacKay) who brutally attacks him outside the club. The movie takes place in a diabolically playful free-associational media zone that suggests the channel-surfing hall of mirrors of “Natural Born Killers” crossed with a public-access knockoff of “Network.” It toys with the notion that those who are driven to extremes of cosplay are truer to the spirit of comic books than anyone else. Slipping quietly beneath the radar was director Ena Sendijarević’s sly critique of Dutch colonialism, which examines the spectacular implosion of a white-owned sugar plantation in the East Indies after the patriarch dies, leaving his property not to his “legitimate” heirs, but to the servant woman who bore him a love child.
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