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The 17 Best Film Performances of 2024
Every one of them is liable to knock your shoulders back.
Sporting a prosthetic nose and teeth, a mountain-man beard, and enough powdered dye to sponsor a charity fun run, Hemsworth peacocks around the wastelands, giving Furiosa the kind of over-the-top pageantry and aggression it needed more of to live up to its predecessor, Fury Road. In Bertrand Bonello’s softly devastating sci-fi romance, Léa Seydoux plays a futuristic lab employee in a world where AI overlords urge humans to purge their DNA of all imperfections by revisiting their past lives and eliminating strong emotions. There were more overtly political performances, too, vividly brought to life by Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci as cardinals fighting to see past their own ambition in Conclave, and John Magaro and Peter Sarsgaard as newsmen on the front lines of terrible history in September 5.
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