The 50 best films of 2024: No 50 to No 31
The 10 highest-grossing titles were all sequels – but none is in our 50-best list in a year audiences turned out in numbers for ‘cultural cinema’
Zoë Saldaña
US actor
Emilia Pérez review: Bold, brassy, groundbreaking entertainment
Chutzpah is in plentiful supply in Jaques Audiard’s extraordinary telenovela-shaded narco-trans musical starring Zoë Saldaña and Karla Sofía Gascón
Karla Sofía Gascón, star of the Oscar-tipped Emilia Pérez: ‘I put my entire life and soul into creating this character’
If the Spanish star gets an Academy Award nomination for her role in Jacques Audiard’s film, she’ll be the first openly trans performer to do so
Cannes 2024: Stars get shady on the carpet as the Nicolas Cage renaissance rages on with Irish director Lorcan Finnegan
Reviewer Tara Brady has her pick for the Palme d’Or and Seán Baker miraculously resurrects the screwball comedy
Oscars 2023: My predictions for next year’s best-picture nominees
Donald Clarke forecasts how the category will shape up at the next Academy Awards
The Adam Project: Effective retro entertainment that comes back from the future
Film review: Ryan Reynolds time-travel adventure gives all the good lines to the boys
Avengers: Endgame now probably won’t become the highest grossing film of all time
As of last weekend, Endgame is just $50 million short of Avatar. Why won’t it catch it?
‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ cast sign letter in support of fired director
James Gunn was sacked after offensive jokes he wrote on Twitter were resurfaced
My Little Pony: An innocent riot of colour – but why the short faces?
Feature-length update of now snub-nosed equine will appeal to kids and Bronies alike
Guardians of the Galaxy 2: ‘Expensive. Vulgar. Desperate’
Film review: The sequel has more quips, more kitsch, more spectacle, less plot
Anthea McTeirnan: I do take thy surname . . . Hang on a second, no I bloody don’t
Broadside: Why, in 2015, are so many women still dropping their own surnames when they get married?
‘Gorgeous and complicated’: the real Nina Simone
A Liz Garbus documentary shows us Simone’s life as it was, including her manic depression, politicisation and demons
Guardians of the Galaxy review: Dumb but hard to resist
You'd need to go back to the Old Testament to find a plot this stuffed with such fantastic nonsense
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