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The Best Movies of 2024
Owen Gleiberman and Peter Debruge list their top 10 films of 2024, with both Variety critics picking 'Inside Out 2' and 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig.'
Steering by photographer Danny Lyon’s late-’60s book of black-and-white Midwestern biker portraits, director Jeff Nichols watches this social microcosm slowly implode upon itself, the way the gangster world did in “The Godfather.” If that comparison sounds lofty, think again: “The Bikeriders” resonates on multiple layers, interrogating American masculinity as Jodie Comer’s awestruck Kathy falls for one of these stallions. Image Credit: Matt Infante You probably recognize Adam Pearson from “Under the Skin.” A condition called neurofibromatosis — which results in unusual tumors all over his face — has not prevented him from pursuing an acting career, which is also true for the character of Edward (played by Sebastian Stan, disguised beneath elaborate prosthetics), who’s convinced his appearance is what’s holding him back from greater success with work, romance and overall self-fulfillment. Frankly, I love the bracingly personal new dimension the Spanish director has dared to show us in recent years (as with “Pain & Glory,” which reveals so much of the chronic discomfort he experiences) and marvel that anyone might consider a film about assisted suicide to be any tamer than “¡Átame!” For his first English-language feature, Almodóvar casts monster talents Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton as old pals bonded by a pact the former makes to accompany her cancer-diminished friend through the end.
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