The 50 best films of 2024 – a full list in reverse order
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’
The Six Triple Eight: Stirring tribute to the only black women’s unit to serve in Europe during the second World War
The script is seldom subtle but impressive war tableaux act as a salve for dialogue
‘When these women left home there were rumours that they were sent to Europe to be concubines for black soldiers’
The Six Triple Eight director Tyler Perry on the true story behind his new film, about the only US army unit of black women sent to Europe during the second World War
The Order review: This taut, gritty white-supremacist thriller could pass for a rediscovered early-1970s classic
Jude Law impresses as an FBI agent on the trail of murderous bank robbers, bomb-builders and counterfeiters
Beauty & the Beast review: On the way home, younger audience members re-enact scenes. There’s no higher recommendation
Alan Hughes and Karl Broderick’s interactive pantomime, directed by Simon Delaney, features the promising Caoileann Woodcock as Belle
Four new films to see this week
Lord of the Rings anime prequel is violent fun for fans, but Luca Guadagnino’s Queer is a vacuous disappointment. Plus documentaries The Bibi Files and Chasing the Light
Queer review: There’s not a trace of William S Burroughs in Luca Guadagnino’s hugely disappointing adaptation
A vacuous film that frequently feels like an overstyled catalogue shoot
The Bibi Files: Scathing portrait of Binyamin Netanyahu’s alleged history of backhanders
Alexis Bloom’s documentary, using leaked footage of police interrogations of the Israeli prime minister, paints a murky picture
Love Actually and That Christmas writer Richard Curtis: ‘I still hope to convince my wife to watch one episode of Blackadder’
There’s little in comedy writing that Richard Curtis hasn’t done. So adapting his That Christmas children’s tales for the screen has been a welcome change
Trans-musical Emilia Pérez wins best film at European Film Awards
Karla Sofía Gascón becomes the first trans woman to win best actress as Belfast’s Kneecap film loses out on two nominations
The 10 worst films of 2024 – and Gladiator II is one of them
We gave you the best films, now here’s the worst. Is it a surprise half of these are sequels?
The 50 best films of 2024 – the top 10 movies of the year
We reach our top 10 favourite movies released in Ireland this year
The 50 best films of 2024: No 20 to No 11
We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this year
The 50 best films of 2024: No 30 to No 21
We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this year
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl: Rungano Nyoni’s darkly comic abuse-survival tale is a blistering original
Review: Splendidly sardonic drama drowns out repressed traumas with a gaggle of aunties and absurdly elaborate funeral arrangements