{"id":136710,"date":"2024-12-13T22:30:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T15:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=136710"},"modified":"2024-12-13T22:30:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T15:30:46","slug":"hollywood-reporter-critics-pick-the-best-films-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=136710","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the Best Films of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMovies continued their difficult post-pandemic recovery in 2024. Hindering that process was a pipeline drastically thinned by the previous year\u2019s protracted writers\u2019 and actors\u2019 strikes; the summer release slate was especially anemic. The outlook got a boost from the bumper crop of early-winter releases led by <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/wicked-review-cynthia-erivo-ariana-grande-1236062372\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/wicked-review-cynthia-erivo-ariana-grande-1236062372\/\">Wicked<\/a><\/em>, <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/moana-2-review-disney-dwayne-johnson-aulii-cravalho-1236070676\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/moana-2-review-disney-dwayne-johnson-aulii-cravalho-1236070676\/\">Moana 2<\/a><\/em> and <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/gladiator-ii-review-paul-mescal-denzel-washington-ridley-scott-1236057985\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/gladiator-ii-review-paul-mescal-denzel-washington-ridley-scott-1236057985\/\">Gladiator II<\/a><\/em>, but box office nonetheless seems headed for an annual tally around half a billion short of 2023 revenues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tStudio animation came back with guns blazing \u2014 <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/inside-out-2-review-pixar-sequel-amy-poehler-1235918216\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/inside-out-2-review-pixar-sequel-amy-poehler-1235918216\/\">Inside Out 2<\/a><\/em>, <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/despicable-me-4-review-1235933955\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/despicable-me-4-review-1235933955\/\">Despicable Me 4<\/a><\/em> and <em>Moana 2<\/em> all appear certain to land in the top 5. Among critics\u2019 darlings, <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/flow-review-animation-gints-zilbalodis-1235908248\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/flow-review-animation-gints-zilbalodis-1235908248\/\">Flow<\/a><\/em> and <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/the-wild-robot-review-lupita-nyongo-pedro-pascal-dreamworks-1235993919\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/the-wild-robot-review-lupita-nyongo-pedro-pascal-dreamworks-1235993919\/\">The Wild Robot<\/a><\/em> both looked to the animal kingdom to find hope for a planet falling apart, while the latter also provided a comforting balm for A.I. anxiety. And the artisanal magic of stop-motion animation made a comeback in <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/memoir-of-a-snail-review-sarah-snook-kodi-smit-mcphee-jacki-weaver-australian-animation-1235917931\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/memoir-of-a-snail-review-sarah-snook-kodi-smit-mcphee-jacki-weaver-australian-animation-1235917931\/\">Memoir of a Snail<\/a><\/em> and <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/wallace-and-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl-review-netflix-aardman-1236042701\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/wallace-and-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl-review-netflix-aardman-1236042701\/\">Wallace &amp; Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe success of <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/deadpool-and-wolverine-review-ryan-reynolds-hugh-jackman-marvel-1235955797\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/deadpool-and-wolverine-review-ryan-reynolds-hugh-jackman-marvel-1235955797\/\">Deadpool &amp; Wolverine<\/a><\/em> demonstrated that reports of the MCU\u2019s twilight may be premature. But a glance at what are likely to be the year\u2019s 10 top-grossing titles points out Hollywood\u2019s aversion to risk-taking original material. All but one entry is a sequel or spinoff \u2014 and that exception, <em>Wicked<\/em>, is based on a Broadway blockbuster that\u2019s been building brand recognition for 21 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHorror maintained its theatrical drawing power, led by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/longlegs-review-maika-monroe-nicolas-cage-neon-horror-1235939771\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/longlegs-review-maika-monroe-nicolas-cage-neon-horror-1235939771\/\">Longlegs<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/smile-2-review-naomi-scott-parker-finn-1236033017\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/smile-2-review-naomi-scott-parker-finn-1236033017\/\">Smile 2<\/a><\/em>, with the well-reviewed <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/nosferatu-review-bill-skarsgard-lily-rose-depp-nicholas-hoult-robert-eggers-1236074321\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/nosferatu-review-bill-skarsgard-lily-rose-depp-nicholas-hoult-robert-eggers-1236074321\/\">Nosferatu<\/a><\/em> poised to swoop in on Christmas Day. But the specialty box office is still having a tough time, as most older audiences now appear entrenched in their streaming habits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA notable exception to that downward trend for adult fare was <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/conclave-review-ralph-fiennes-edward-berger-1235988528\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/conclave-review-ralph-fiennes-edward-berger-1235988528\/\">Conclave<\/a><\/em>, which turned a papal election into an unexpectedly juicy political thriller elevated by a superlative ensemble cast that includes Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow and Isabella Rossellini. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tA stellar ensemble also distinguished the considerably smaller theatrical release, <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/sing-sing-review-colman-domingo-1235588078\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/sing-sing-review-colman-domingo-1235588078\/\">Sing Sing<\/a><\/em>, led by Colman Domingo in sensational form as a prison theater group member. The profoundly empathetic drama acquires stirring authenticity via the casting of formerly incarcerated alumni of the rehabilitation program, notably Clarence Maclin in what could prove to be a star-making turn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAnother of the year\u2019s outstanding ensembles was Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen in <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/his-three-daughters-review-carrie-coon-elizabeth-olsen-natasha-lyonne-azazel-jacobs-1235581768\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/his-three-daughters-review-carrie-coon-elizabeth-olsen-natasha-lyonne-azazel-jacobs-1235581768\/\">His Three Daughters<\/a><\/em>, Azazel Jacobs\u2019 wry chamber piece about scrappy, semi-estranged sisters brought together by their father\u2019s impending death. Playing three women of entirely different temperaments forced to find common ground in sadness, the cast could not be better, shrugging off the standard clich\u00e9s of the indie grief drama in a film graced as much by spiky humor as tenderness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFirst features continued to augur well for an emerging generation of filmmaking talent. Chief among them was RaMell Ross\u2019 formally inventive, emotionally searing adaptation of the Colson Whitehead novel, <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/nickel-boys-review-ramell-ross-1235988553\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/nickel-boys-review-ramell-ross-1235988553\/\">Nickel Boys<\/a><\/em>, about two inmates of an inhumane reformatory in the Jim Crow South.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOther standout debuts included Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker\u2019s luminous rethink of the mother-daughter drama, <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/janet-planet-review-julianne-nicholson-annie-baker-a24-1235576019\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/janet-planet-review-julianne-nicholson-annie-baker-a24-1235576019\/\">Janet Planet<\/a><\/em>; India Donaldson\u2019s transfixing micro-portrait of an eye-opening moment in a young woman\u2019s late adolescence, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/good-one-review-lily-collias-1235792486\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/good-one-review-lily-collias-1235792486\/\">Good One<\/a><\/em>; Sean Wang\u2019s lovely, semi-autobiographical Asian American coming-of-age tale, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/didi-review-sean-wang-1235788420\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/didi-review-sean-wang-1235788420\/\">Didi<\/a><\/em>; cinematographer Rachel Morrison\u2019s knockout boxing drama <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/the-fire-inside-review-ryan-destiny-brian-tyree-henry-barry-jenkins-1235999369\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/the-fire-inside-review-ryan-destiny-brian-tyree-henry-barry-jenkins-1235999369\/\">The Fire Inside<\/a><\/em>; and Vera Drew\u2019s subversive unauthorized queer supervillain parody, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/the-peoples-joker-review-1235875534\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/the-peoples-joker-review-1235875534\/\">The People\u2019s Joker<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tRead on for my ranked Top 10, followed by 10 alphabetically listed honorable mentions, and those of my invaluable reviews team colleagues, Lovia Gyarkye and Jon Frosch. <em>\u2014 DAVID ROONEY<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>1. <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/all-we-imagine-as-light-review-1235897240\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/all-we-imagine-as-light-review-1235897240\/\"><em>All We Imagine as Light<\/em><\/a><\/strong><br \/>Payal Kapadia\u2019s transcendent narrative debut shows her roots in documentary as its opening shots survey the metropolitan sprawl of modern-day Mumbai at night. Fragments of conversation establish it as a city of transplants, many of whom think wistfully of the lives they left behind. The writer-director closes in on two nurses who share an apartment. Prabha, played by Kani Kusruti with soulful depths you could drown in, heads the obstetrics ward with brisk efficiency and goes home alone to ponder the worth of her marriage to a long-absent husband. Her younger colleague, Anu (Divya Prabha), takes life less seriously, courting scandal in her clandestine relationship with a Muslim. When an older co-worker (Chhaya Kadam) takes eviction as her cue to leave Mumbai, the two nurses accompany her back to the seaside village where she grew up. In quiet ways, that change of location proves transformative for all three, bringing them peace and a sense of community captured in a closing shot that\u2019s pure poetry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>2. <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/queer-review-daniel-craig-luca-guadagninos-1235986089\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/queer-review-daniel-craig-luca-guadagninos-1235986089\/\"><em>Queer<\/em><\/a><\/strong><br \/>As a navigator of desire, longing and melancholy sensuality, Luca Guadagnino\u2019s powers are at their peak in this shape-shifting adaptation of the semi-autobiographical William S. Burroughs novel. Molded by writer Justin Kuritzkes into a retroactive ghost story, the movie threads its way from cruise-y cat and mouse games to romantic obsession, from addiction agony to hallucinogenic abstraction, and finally to unraveling as it plunges into the abyss of solitude. For a gay man of a certain age, that could be the Stations of the Cross. In an affecting performance that\u2019s seductive, driven and haunted, a never better Daniel Craig surrenders himself to Burroughs\u2019 alter ego Lee, a junkie in post-WWII Mexico City. He\u2019s an urbane barfly unmoored by his intoxication with a preppy young American beauty, played by Drew Starkey with allure and elusiveness. Shot on sets at Rome\u2019s storied Cinecitt\u00e0\u00a0Studios, <em>Queer<\/em> has the dreamy, not quite real feel of a movie conjured on soundstages and backlots, but its depiction of yearning \u2014 for connection, for release, for oblivion \u2014 is raw and real.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>3. <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/the-brutalist-review-adrien-brody-brady-corbet-1235985981\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/the-brutalist-review-adrien-brody-brady-corbet-1235985981\/\"><em>The Brutalist<\/em><\/a><\/strong><br \/>Actor-turned-director Brady Corbet\u2019s third feature, co-written with his partner Mona Fastvold, is a magnum opus in every sense. Over three and a half hours with a built-in intermission, the symphonic drama follows the rise-and-fall trajectory of brilliant Hungarian Jewish architect L\u00e1szl\u00f3 T\u00f3th, played by Adrien Brody in a gut-wrenching performance that fuses the lacerating pain of a Holocaust survivor with the hubristic recklessness of an uncompromising artist. Guy Pearce also does some of his finest work as the powerful industrialist who gives T\u00f3th his shot at the American Dream, until the architect oversteps, necessitating a harsh reminder that they will never be equals. The epic has a scope, magnitude and thematic heft that seem to belong to a lost age in moviemaking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>4. <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/la-chimera-review-josh-oconnor-alice-rohrwacher-1235501816\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/la-chimera-review-josh-oconnor-alice-rohrwacher-1235501816\/\"><em>La Chimera<\/em><\/a><\/strong><br \/>In <em>The Wonders<\/em> and <em>Happy as Lazzaro<\/em>, Alice Rohrwacher began traveling the corridors of Italy\u2019s past through idiosyncratic pocket communities that miraculously survive in the present. She completes an informal triptych with this lyrical, funny and beguilingly strange story of a band of grave-robbers, \u201ctombaroli\u201d who loot Etruscan antiquities to sell for profit. A superb Josh O\u2019Connor is the sad Englishman to whom they attribute mystical powers of divination. He\u2019s pining for a lost love whose eccentric mother Flora, played with glorious spirit by Isabella Rossellini, still believes her daughter will walk through the door of the crumbling family villa. The mutual fondness of these two characters warms the woozy dream state of a movie steeped in folklore, mythology and superstition, which unspools the delicate thread between life and death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>5. <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/hard-truths-review-marianne-jean-baptiste-mike-leigh-1235993190\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/hard-truths-review-marianne-jean-baptiste-mike-leigh-1235993190\/\"><em>Hard Truths<\/em><\/a><\/strong><br \/>Almost three decades after their memorable collaboration on <em>Secrets &amp; Lies<\/em>, Mike Leigh hands the role of a lifetime to Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Her character, Pansy, is a Londoner whose disappointment, depression and trauma have calcified into all-consuming rage. Her husband and 22-year-old son try to stay out of her way in their sterile middle-class home; only her younger sister Chantelle (Michele Austin, perfection), a cheerful hairdresser who\u2019s as warm, patient and compassionate as Pansy is angry, refuses to be deterred by her hostility. Leigh\u2019s famously collaborative process, in which he develops the story and characters with his actors over an extended rehearsal period, pays off in a protagonist whose explosive tirades are fusillades both hilariously squirm-inducing and wearying. The prospect of spending 90-plus minutes with Pansy\u2019s fury is initially daunting. But almost imperceptibly, the director\u2019s humanistic generosity alters the perspective, inviting us to feel the hurt beneath the character\u2019s armor and revealing the film to be a piercing consideration of the value of empathy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>6. <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/anora-review-mikey-madison-sean-baker-1235905037\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/anora-review-mikey-madison-sean-baker-1235905037\/\"><em>Anora<\/em><\/a><\/strong><br \/>One of the reliable strengths of Sean Baker\u2019s movies is the writer-director\u2019s refusal to judge even his messiest, most rough-edged characters. That holds true for the Brooklyn sex worker who gives this Cannes Palme d\u2019Or winner its title, played in a breakout turn by Mikey Madison with winsome sweetness, transactional pragmatism and ferociousness when cornered. Dropping us into a typically vivid fringe milieu, the cracked Cinderella story spins screwball comedy out of Anora\u2019s impulsive decision to wed Mark Eydelshteyn\u2019s Ivan, a man-child stoner who turns out to be the son of a Russian oligarch. When his folks send muscle to collect Ivan and get the marriage annulled, Anora is disinclined to be compliant. Gradually, the humor makes way for lingering poignancy in her bruising experience and especially in her shifting interactions with the wonderful Yura Borisov\u2019s Igor, one of the Russian thugs sent to subdue her, who shows unexpected kindness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>7. <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/flow-review-animation-gints-zilbalodis-1235908248\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/flow-review-animation-gints-zilbalodis-1235908248\/\"><em>Flow<\/em><\/a><\/strong><br \/>Gifted Latvian animator Gints Zilbalodis crafts artisanal magic out of digital technology in this white-knuckle, experiential survival adventure set in the wake of a cataclysmic flood. Half-submerged ruins hint at the extinction of humankind without going full dystopia in a captivating fable that unfolds entirely without dialogue \u2014 just an expressive score and the elemental sounds of a strange new waterworld. At the story\u2019s center is a saucer-eyed cat who hops aboard a beat-up sailboat and finds itself sharing quarters with a supremely chill capybara, an adorably dopey Labrador, a lemur busily collecting shiny objects and an intimidating secretarybird that mostly minds its own business. As the unlikely menagerie discovers the benefits of mutual trust, cooperation and community, this one-of-a-kind film becomes a lesson in shared struggle, a reminder that we all need each other if we\u2019re going to make it through challenging times ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>8. <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/im-still-here-review-walter-salles-fernanda-torres-1235989211\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/im-still-here-review-walter-salles-fernanda-torres-1235989211\/\"><em>I\u2019m Still Here<\/em><\/a><\/strong><br \/>Walter Salles\u2019 first film in his native Brazil in 16 years brings an intimate, unsentimental gaze to the shattering true story of former congressman Rubens Paiva, taken from his Rio de Janeiro home in 1971 for questioning by the military dictatorship and never seen again. With the junta refusing even to confirm his arrest, his family lives for years with paralyzing uncertainty. But the tragedy galvanizes Rubens\u2019 wife Eunice, imbued with stirring grace, dignity and understated heroism by Fernanda Torres. While raising five children, she puts herself through college and earns a law degree at 48, becoming a tenacious activist whose causes include full acknowledgement by authorities of disappeared people like her husband once democracy is restored. Amplifying the drama\u2019s emotional charge, the elderly, infirm Eunice is played toward the end of her life by Torres\u2019 mother, Fernanda Montenegro, the unforgettable star of Salles\u2019 1998 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/international\/\" id=\"auto-tag_international\" data-tag=\"international\">international<\/a> breakthrough, <em>Central Station<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>9. <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/nosferatu-review-bill-skarsgard-lily-rose-depp-nicholas-hoult-robert-eggers-1236074321\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/nosferatu-review-bill-skarsgard-lily-rose-depp-nicholas-hoult-robert-eggers-1236074321\/\"><em>Nosferatu<\/em><\/a><\/strong><br \/>Is there still fresh blood to be drawn from the vampire legend that began with Bram Stoker\u2019s 1897 Gothic horror novel, <em>Dracula<\/em>? Robert Eggers provides a decisive answer with this passion project that swims through the inky shadows of German Expressionist master F.W. Murnau\u2019s 1922 silent classic while forging its own bone-chilling path. Graced by some of the year\u2019s most mesmerizing visuals and sumptuous design elements, not to mention by riveting performances from Bill Skarsgard, Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult and Willem Dafoe, this is a movie possessed. It immerses the audience in suffocating atmosphere, portentous dread and queasy eroticism, while catching us off guard with a sly vein of fiendish camp. The grotesquely beautiful final shot will take your breath away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>10. <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/a-real-pain-review-jesse-eisenberg-kieran-culkin-1235794351\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/a-real-pain-review-jesse-eisenberg-kieran-culkin-1235794351\/\"><em>A Real Pain<\/em><\/a><\/strong><br \/>Jesse Eisenberg\u2019s second feature as director is a blend that really shouldn\u2019t cohere, a very funny odd couple road trip movie that sneaks up and clobbers you \u2014 its emotional wallop leaves you reeling. Bringing a deft lightness of touch to situations ranging from awkward humor to monumental sorrow, this is a work of impressive depth and maturity. Eisenberg plays David, a mildly uptight New Yorker in digital ad sales who invites his unemployed, semi-estranged cousin Benji to accompany him on a tour of Poland to see their recently deceased grandmother\u2019s ancestral home. The filter-free Benji, a flake who never met an inappropriate comment he didn\u2019t like, is played by Kieran Culkin with an insouciance that\u2019s simultaneously appealing and maddening. By infinitesimal degrees, the actor reveals his character\u2019s vulnerability, building to the emotional wreckage of a sobering visit to Majdanek concentration camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):<\/strong> <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/babygirl-review-nicole-kidman-harris-dickinson-antonio-banderas-halina-reijn-1235987888\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/babygirl-review-nicole-kidman-harris-dickinson-antonio-banderas-halina-reijn-1235987888\/\">Babygirl<\/a><\/em>, <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/challengers-review-zendaya-josh-oconnor-mike-faist-luca-guadagnino-1235870986\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/challengers-review-zendaya-josh-oconnor-mike-faist-luca-guadagnino-1235870986\/\">Challengers<\/a><\/em>, <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/dahomey-review-mati-diop-1235829050\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/dahomey-review-mati-diop-1235829050\/\">Dahomey<\/a><\/em>, <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/emilia-perez-review-zoe-saldana-selena-gomez-jacques-audiard-1235903402\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/emilia-perez-review-zoe-saldana-selena-gomez-jacques-audiard-1235903402\/\">Emilia P\u00e9rez<\/a><\/em>, <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/evil-does-not-exist-review-ryusuke-hamaguchi-1235581427\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/evil-does-not-exist-review-ryusuke-hamaguchi-1235581427\/\">Evil Does Not Exist<\/a><\/em>, <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/green-border-review-agnieszka-holland-1235582893\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/green-border-review-agnieszka-holland-1235582893\/\">Green Border<\/a><\/em>, <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/nickel-boys-review-ramell-ross-1235988553\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/nickel-boys-review-ramell-ross-1235988553\/\">Nickel Boys<\/a><\/em>, <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/no-other-land-review-1235828288\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/no-other-land-review-1235828288\/\">No Other Land<\/a><\/em>, <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/the-seed-of-the-sacred-fig-review-mohammad-rasoulof-1235907982\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/the-seed-of-the-sacred-fig-review-mohammad-rasoulof-1235907982\/\">The Seed of the Sacred Fig<\/a><\/em>, <em><a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/small-things-like-these-review-cillian-murphy-1235825750\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/small-things-like-these-review-cillian-murphy-1235825750\/\">Small Things Like These<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-accent-l   \">\n\t\tJon Frosch\u2019s Top 10\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"container \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<ol>\n<li><em>Green Border<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Brutalist<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>All We Imagine as Light<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>A Real Pain<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/a-complete-unknown-review-timothee-chalamet-bob-dylan-james-mangold-1236081991\/\">A Complete Unknown<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Emilia P\u00e9rez<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Babygirl<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/juror-2-review-clint-eastwood-nicholas-hoult-toni-collette-1236046091\/\">Juror #2<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>His Three Daughters<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Hard Truths<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):<\/strong> <em>Anora<\/em>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/the-beast-review-lea-seydoux-george-mackay-bertrand-bonello-1235576746\/\">The Beast<\/a><\/em>, <em>Challengers<\/em>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/last-summer-review-catherine-breillat-1235502290\/\">Last Summer<\/a><\/em>, <em>Nickel Boys<\/em>, <em>No Other Land<\/em>, <em>Nosferatu<\/em>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/the-room-next-door-review-tilda-swinton-julianne-moore-pedro-almodovar-1235989527\/\">The Room Next Door<\/a><\/em>, <em>The Seed of the Sacred Fig<\/em>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/zurawski-v-texas-review-hillary-clinton-1235984825\/\">Zurawski v Texas<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-accent-l   \">\n\t\tLovia Gyarkye\u2019s Top 10\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"container \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<ol start=\"1\">\n<li><em>All We Imagine As Light\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Nickel Boys<\/em>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><em>No Other Land<\/em>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><em>Evil Does Not Exist<\/em>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><em>Hard Truths<\/em>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><em>La Chimera<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Dahomey<\/em>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><em>I\u2019m Still Here<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Nosferatu<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/sugarcane-review-1235794347\/\">Sugarcane<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<strong>Honorable mentions (in alphabetical order):<\/strong> <em>Babygirl<\/em>, <em>The Fire Inside<\/em>, <em>Flow<\/em>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/the-girl-with-the-needle-review-1235899841\/\">The Girl with the Needle<\/a><\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/in-the-summers-review-1235802986\/\"><em>In the Summers<\/em><\/a>, <em>Queer<\/em>, <em>The Seed of the Sacred Fig<\/em>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/soundtrack-to-a-coup-detat-review-1235813495\/\">Soundtrack to a Coup D\u2019Etat<\/a><\/em>, <em><a 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