{"id":150769,"date":"2024-12-24T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/?guid=a5917a945b4c73bde10c99a75b43be0f"},"modified":"2024-12-24T10:00:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T10:00:52","slug":"the-30-best-films-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/24\/the-30-best-films-of-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The 30 best films of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post__content\">\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<p><span class='dropCap'>A<\/span>t Little White Lies, we don&#8217;t believe there&#8217;s such a thing as a &#8220;bad year&#8221; for cinema in terms of the work produced. Working under the pressure of an industry still recovering from political and social turmoil in the face of society that seems increasingly hostile to art, we&#8217;re heartened to see so many artists still managing to create truly great cinema. After much deliberation within the team, we&#8217;ve put together our list of 30 great films that came out of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The list runs from 1 February 2024 to 31 January 2025 (to account a little bit for some early US releases) so it&#8217;s not an exact science \u2013 there are plenty of personal favourites which got left off too. But we hope you&#8217;ll take the time to seek out of all of these wonderful films. Let us know your favourites over on <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/lwlies.com\"  rel=\"noopener\">Bluesky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Green-Border-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>30. Green Border<\/h3>\n<p><em>Dir. Agnieszka Holland<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland has proven with her many diverse endeavours over the years that she can successfully try her hand at any type of film or TV series \u2013 but Green Border is a film which should be counted among her most personal and most nuanced to date. That this harrowing tale of refugees stranded between the borders of Belarus and Poland would emerge in a year where such stories are rife in our newspapers adds a haunting resonance to its story, and it\u2019s one told by a director who clearly has decades of hard emotional experience under her belt. <strong>David Jenkins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/green-border\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Read the LWLies review<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Amsterdam-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>29. Occupied City<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Steve McQueen<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Of the films that Steve McQueen made in 2024, we think that the first one \u2013 Occupied City \u2013 pips his lavish period drama, <a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/blitz\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Blitz<\/a>, to a spot in our top 30 ranking. The former sees the filmmaker deliver a coldly forensic study of how evil settles its roots in a community, adapted from a book written by his partner, Bianca Stigter, called Atlas of an Occupied City, Amsterdam 1940\u20131945. It\u2019s a film of breathtaking formal rigour and, like some of McQueen\u2019s best gallery work, an attempt to reflect scale through the sheer breadth of collected detail. <strong>DJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/occupied-city\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Read the LWLies review<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Iron-Claw-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>28. The Iron Claw<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Sean Durkin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all know Kerry\u2019s my favourite,\u201d Fritz Von Erich tells his sons as they sit around the breakfast table. \u201cThen Kev, then David, then Mike. But the rankings can always change.\u201d It seems so ludicrous as to be comical \u2013 a father nakedly pitting his children against one another over bacon and eggs \u2013 but Sean Durkin\u2019s sports drama is ever so sincere, relaying the story of a wrestling dynasty founded by a single-minded abusive parent and subject to notable tragedies throughout their lives. With an impeccable casting comprising Holt McCallany as Fritz and Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White and Harris Dickinson as his sons, it\u2019s a bruising story of fraternity and masculinity that cuts down to the bone.\u00a0<strong>Hannah Strong<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/the-iron-claw\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Blink1-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>27. Blink Twice<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Zo\u00eb Kravitz<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s always the desire to dash for the exits when you see that a film actor has crossed the Rubicon and chosen to try their hand at writing and directing. Yet with Blink Twice, Zo\u00eb Kravitz proved herself to be something of a natural, with her inspired, witty and no-punch-pulling thrilled about a wide-eyed waitress (Naomi Ackie) who is spirited away to a paradise island by a dashing tech bro (Channing Tatum) where the good time party vibe is soon interrupted by all manner of unspeakable activities. It\u2019s one of the year\u2019s most brilliantly edited films (a high compliment!) and we can\u2019t wait to see what Kravitz has up her sleeves next. <strong>DJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/blink-twice\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Taste-of-Things-2023-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>26. The Taste of Things<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Tran Anh Hung<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If Luna Carmoon\u2019s Hoard (see Number 16) was a film that piqued our sense of smell, Tran Anh Hung\u2019s account of fictional early 20th century French gourmand Dodin-Bouffant was one that sent paroxisms of pleasure directly to our tastebuds. This is Tik-Tok food porn elevated to the level of high art, with the careful production of mouth-watering pleasures wrapped around a lilting romance between Beno\u00eet Magimel mercurial Dodin, and his chef\/lover Eug\u00e9nie (Juliette Binoche).\u00a0<strong>DJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/the-taste-of-things\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Willem-Dafoe-Jesse-Plemons-and-Hong-Chau-in-Kinds-of-Kindness-2024-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>25. Kinds of Kindness<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When a director makes two films in the space of a year, you assume it\u2019ll be a classic case of \u201cone for them, one for me\u201d. Yet Kinds of Kindness \u2013 like <a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/poor-things\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Poor Things<\/a> before it \u2013 is a work that feels like it was snuck in through the back door by its director Yorgos Lanthimos, a trio of surreal, saucy, doom-laden tales about false profits and how the sub\/dom dichotomy relates to so much more in life than just sex.\u00a0<strong>DJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/kinds-of-kindness\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/No-Other-Land-courtesy-of-Dogwoof-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>24. No Other Land<\/h3>\n<p><em>Dirs. Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the most vital releases of 2024, not least because its plea for peaceable dialogue and for humanity to look beyond the synthetic constructs of borders and race managed to rub a lot of awful people up the wrong way. An ad hoc collaboration between Palestinian videographer Basel Adra and Israeli director Yuval Abraham, No Other Land offers a critique of Israel\u2019s aggressive expansionism into the west bank before conflict officially broke out, and is just a deeply emotional paean to collaboration, documentation and resistance. <strong>DJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/no-other-land\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Kneecap-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>23. Kneecap<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Rich Peppiat<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cocaine, shagging, and a cameo from Jerry Adams \u2013 the eponymous rap trio from Belfast caused quite a stir this year with their meta music biopic, blurring the lines between fiction and reality with raucous results. Putting the Irish language front and centre and raging against the machine of British imperialism, they sent the tabloid press into a sputtering tailspin and gained legions of new fans the world over. Brits Out indeed. <strong>HS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/kneecap\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/93644-BABYGIRL_-_Nicole_Kidman_and_Nicholas_Hoult__Credits_Niko_Tavernise_-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>22. Babygirl<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Halina Reijn<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For many years critics and audiences alike have mourned the loss of eroticism in mainstream cinema \u2013 weep no more, cinema lovers, as Halina Reijn, Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson are here to change all that with their sexually charged dramedy about a high-flying CEO who embarks on an affair with her much younger colleague. Reijn\u2019s refreshingly candid approach to sex on screen sees her capture the messy, funny often awkward side of intimacy, and with Kidman on top form, it\u2019s a romp in the truest sense of the word.\u00a0<strong>HS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/festivals\/babygirl-first-look-review\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Witches-2024-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>21. Witches<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Elizabeth Sankey<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After giving birth to her first child, filmmaker and musician Elizabeth Sankey experienced severe post-portum depression and was treated in a specialist mother and baby psychiatric unit. She recounts her experience in this moving documentary, which draws connections between the historical treatment of women in culture and healthcare and fictional depictions of witches. Unfailingly candid about a subject many are either unable or unwilling to confront, Witches is a tender, inventive film that takes on a devastating issue with appropriate care.\u00a0<strong>HS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/witches\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Juror-2-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>20. Juror #2<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Clint Eastwood<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He may be 94 years young, but Clint Eastwood proves with his latest, Juror #2, that he has very much still got game as a director of rich genre fare. It was dumped haphazardly into US cinemas, but found a loyal following quickly among critics when they saw that beyond the slick courtroom thriller fa\u00e7ade was a sophisticated and ambiguous study on the limits of the law when it comes to adjudication on the complex, irrational and absurd actions of human beings.\u00a0<strong>DJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/juror-2\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Furiosa-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>19. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by George Miller<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While I\u2019ll be shot in the face at close range with a vintage modified sawn-off for saying this, I\u2019ll say it anyway: Furiosa &gt; Fury Road. Not by much, but by a meaningful margin. George Miller\u2019s action prequel charts the origin story of one-armed rage queen and sharp-shooter, as she\u2019s plucked from paradise as a youngling and then set off on a grandiose revenge mission thereafter. Anya Taylor-Joy slinks into the role of the double-hard road warrior, while Tom Burke is superb as her supercool helpmeet, Pretorian Jack.\u00a0<strong>DJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/furiosa-a-mad-max-saga\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Timestalker-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>18. Timestalker<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Alice Lowe<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It feels like there\u2019s less and less space in the industry for filmmakers to take a creative roll of the dice and make a film which doesn\u2019t adhere to tried and tested norms. Alice Lowe\u2019s second feature is even more of a marvel in that sense, as she writes, directs and stars in this time-skipping tale of unrequited love through the ages that employs a bold structural gambit and is packed to the gills with humour and insight. This preceptive study on the microscopically thin line between romance and stalking dismantles cinematic norms while building a beautifully wonky and lovable edifice of its own. <strong>DJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/timestalker\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Hoard-2024-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>17. Hoard<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Luna Carmoon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Olefactory cinema par excellence, debut writer\/director Luna Carmoon whacks it out of the park with this stinky, slimy, sexy urban drama about writing bodies and rubbish piles in working class suburbia. Saura Lightfoot Leon and Joseph Quinn astonish as the tactile would-be lovers, while Haley Squires is superb as the single-mother trash hoarder whose obsessions and kinks rub off on her impressionable daughter. Roll on feature number two! <strong>DJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/hoard\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/QUEER_06-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>16. Queer<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Luca Guadagnino<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Luca Guadagnino had a busy 2024, with Challengers and Queer premiering six months apart. His second collaboration with Justin Kuritzkes, the latter adapted William S. Burroughs\u2019 novella of the same name, with the author\u2019s fictionalised stand-in down and out in Mexico City, trying \u2013 and often failing \u2013 to woo an ethereal ex-serviceman who he can\u2019t quite pin down. Featuring Daniel Craig\u2019s best work in years and a star-making turn from Drew Starkey, it\u2019s another swooning entry into the Guadagnino Desire Canon, and we couldn\u2019t be happier about it.\u00a0<strong>HS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/queer\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/About-Dry-Grasses-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>15. About Dry Grasses<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>People talking in rooms never sounds like a very fun time on paper, but Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan has come to the point in his career he can make this very spartan dramatic set-up feel like high art. A disgruntled, pompous country school teacher has his haughty perceptions challenged by pupils and colleagues, leading to a sardonic, but sincerely philosophical study which drills into the question of professional purpose and what we\u2019re really meant to spend our time doing while on this little rock. <strong>DJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/about-dry-grasses\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/CloseYourEyes-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>14. Close Your Eyes<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Victor Erice<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the bench for over 30 years following the release of 1992\u2019s sublime documentary about art and creativity, The Quince Tree Sun, Spanish filmmaker Victor Erice finally returns with a laconic old school marvel which combines the loose structure of a cosy mystery (a filmmaker trying to discover the whereabouts of a colleague who went missing), with a deep, fascinating and breathtaking inquiry into how cinema can be a very real part of our collective memory. <strong>DJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/close-your-eyes\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Read the LWLies review<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/I-Saw-the-TV-Glow-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>13. I Saw The TV Glow<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Jane Schoenbrun<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As assured a sophomore feature as you\u2019re ever likely to see, Schoenbrun\u2019s haunting Bildungsroman pays tribute to the pivotal influence pop culture can have on us in our youth, providing portals to other worlds and helping us discover who we are. Beyond being a loving tribute to their own influences \u2013 notably Buffy the Vampire Slayer \u2013 Schoenbrun\u2019s film is an expression of hope, reassuring trans and queer viewers that it\u2019s never too late to become your authentic self, and that repression only leads to heartbreak in the end. <strong>HS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/i-saw-the-tv-glow\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Hit-Man-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>12. Hit Man<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Richard Linklater<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Play this in a double feature with Eastwood\u2019s Juror #2! Deceptively featherlight caper in with Actual Real Movie Star #1 Glen Powell goes full chameleon mode as Gary Johnson, a doofus collage philosophy professor who moonlights as a fake assassin for the local police constabulary in order to lure in potential marks. And it turns out that his toughest assignment\u2026 was love. Linklater keeps things fast and frisky, and everything leads up towards a single scene that forever justifies the existence and application of smart phones. <strong>DJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/festivals\/hit-man-first-look-review\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Read the LWLies review<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Dahomey-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>11. Dahomey<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Mati Diop<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Deserved Golden Bear winner at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival, Mati Diop\u2019s stunning, medium-length essay feature searches for a definition of the term \u201cnational treasure\u201d and what it means that 26 purloined treasures are being returned to their home nation of Benin France. Diop presents a multiplicity of voices and interpretations on this situation, opening out both a discussion on the problem of western museums being packed to the rafters with plunder from colonial times. <strong>DJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/dahomey\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Read the LWLies review<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/OnBecomingAGuineaFowl-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>10. On Becoming A Guinea Fowl<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Rungano Nyoni<\/em><\/p>\n<p>All the ingredients were there in Zambian-Welsh filmmaker Rungano Nyoni\u2019s 2017 debut feature, I Am Not a Witch, and frankly it\u2019s something of a travesty that we had to wait seven long years for a follow-up. But when this new one arrived, it expanded on that promise in new and exciting ways, telling of ritualised cycles of abuse within an extended family and one woman\u2019s surreal and stifled attempts to hold the abusers to account. <strong>DJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/on-becoming-a-guinea-fowl\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Planet-Janet-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>9. Janet Planet<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Annie Baker<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a high chance you blinked and missed the scintillating and confident debut feature from lauded playwright Annie Baker when it whisked through UK cinemas, but we wanted to give this wonderful film, about a disquieting mother-daughter relationship in an American rural setting, the dues it so obviously deserves. In its quiet, rigorously observational mode, it served as extension to Baker\u2019s stage work, but also tipped its hat to the transcendental masters of yore such as Ozu and Antonioni. <strong>DJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/festivals\/janet-planet-first-look-review\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Franz-Rogowski-in-Bird-2024-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>8. Bird<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Andrea Arnold<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll admit: I was something of an Andrea Arnold agnostic ahead of Bird. It definitely wasn\u2019t an intense dislike, more that I swayed to the extremes of love (Wuthering Heights, Cow) and hate (American Honey). This new one represents everything she does well, but with an added twist, cutting the spiky social realism through with a sprinkle of fairy dust in the form of a lovable loner played by Franz Rogowski, who helps save young Bailey (newcomer Nykiya Adams) from all manner of social and familial hazards. Gorgeous, moving stuff. <strong>DJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/bird\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Challengers-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>7. Challengers<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Luca Guadagnino<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The film that launched a thousand memes, our favourite Italian provocateur teamed up with YouTube legend (and Mr. Celine Song) Justin Kuritzkes for this cheeky, sporty take on Jules et Jim. Zendaya, Josh O&#8217;Connor and Mike Faist are the power-hungry tennis pros who enter each others&#8217; orbit as teens and find themselves butting heads on and off the court across their adult lives \u2013 it&#8217;s a spiky, sexy, sweaty dramedy about negotiating the rules of desire, and the killer score from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross certainly gets the blood pumping too. <strong>HS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/challengers\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/HardTruths-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>6. Hard Truths<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Mike Leigh<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 30 years after they collaborated on Secrets &amp; Lies, Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste reunite \u2013 and aren&#8217;t we lucky, because the result is the finest British film of the year. Jean-Baptiste gives an incendiary performance as Pansy Deacon, a hard-faced woman with an acid tongue who spends every waking moment picking fights, gamely matched by The Bill&#8217;s own Michele Austin as her long-suffering sister Chantelle. It&#8217;s a moving, tragic, at times extremely funny portrait of a single family&#8217;s complex dynamics, delivered as only Mike Leigh knows how, with no triumphant catharsis or easy reconciliations. <strong>HS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/festivals\/hard-truths-first-look-review\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/All-We-Imagine-As-Light-2024-courtesy-of-BFI-Distribution-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>5. All We Imagine As Light<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Payal Kapadia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Having impressed with her experimental debut The Night of Knowing Nothing, the Indian filmmaker opted to expand her horizons with a Mumbai-set city symphony which revolves around the lives of three melancholic women of different generations. The film is singularly interested in the emotions and the interior worlds of these women, yet it\u2019s also richly political in its focus on caste, gentrification and anti-Muslim sentiment in modern India. The year\u2019s best ending. <strong>DJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/all-we-imagine-as-light\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Josh-OConnor-in-La-Chimera-2023-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>4. La Chimera<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Alice Rohrwacher<\/em><\/p>\n<p>La Chimera was Alice Rohrwacher\u2019s \u201cI can do pretty much anything now\u201d movie, a piece of work that from some angles looks completely shapeless and meandering, and from others elegantly structured and purposeful. Josh O\u2019Connor (in his second top 10 appearance) stars as a linen-suited rogue who hangs out with a gang of charismatic tomb raiders who travel the Italian landscape in search of antiquities and more. Rohrwacher\u2019s sincere interest in history and archaeology soon gives way to matters existential, and the story shifts to examine more romantic concerns. <strong>DJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/la-chimera\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Zone-of-Interest-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>3. The Zone of Interest<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Jonathan Glazer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We didn\u2019t get around to giving this one its dues in our 2023 list, even though that\u2019s when it premiered, so we can only echo the many hundreds \u2013 if not thousands \u2013 of people who have lauded Jonathan Glazer\u2019s singular exploration into the ambient qualities of the Holocaust, and the banality of evil at its most aggressively banal. Like RaMell Ross\u2019s Nickel Boys, it\u2019s a film which reframes and recontextualises atrocity through subjective human experience, and once seen it is very much never forgotten. <strong>DJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/the-zone-of-interest\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/96549-THE_BRUTALIST_-_Actor_Adrien_Brody-1-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>2. The Brutalist<\/h3>\n<p><em>Directed by Brady Corbet<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brady Corbet\u2019s long-in-the-oven VistaVision spectacular channels the look, feel and scope of classic-era Hollywood epics in telling the tale of a fictional \u00e9migr\u00e9 architect (magnificently essayed by Adrien Brody) who strives to find both work and an artistic outlet (and perhaps even both at the same time) in the mighty landscapes of America. It\u2019s a knotty, mysterious picture that begs for interpretation, and that sound you can hear in the background is PT Anderson watching his back. <strong>DJ<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/festivals\/the-brutalist-first-look-review\/\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/NickelBoys-900x0-c-default.jpg\" class=\"flex-fullWidthImage\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text__block\">\n<h3>1. 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With Ethan Herisse, Brandon Turner and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor delivering a trio of heavyweight performances and Ross&#8217;s entire creative team working at the top of their game, it represents a towering achievement in cinematic storytelling and provides a slither of hope that the victims of the real-life reform schools of the American south will finally see justice. <strong>HS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/reviews\/nickel-boys\"  rel=\"noopener\"><em>Read the LWLies review<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/articles\/the-30-best-films-of-2024\/\">The 30 best films of 2024<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/lwlies.com\/\">Little White Lies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h2><b>Commercials Cooperation Advertisements:<\/b><\/h2>\r\n<p><br>(1) IT Teacher IT Freelance<br> <\/p>\r\n<a href=https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress><img 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