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2024

Articles published in 2024.

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Carry-On (2024)

Carry-On (2024)

Jaume Collet-Serra brings his airborne-thriller habit down to the departures hall for a tight Christmas Eve cat-and-mouse, and Taron Egerton and an against-type Jason Bateman do the rest. 8/10.

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Conclave (2024)

Conclave (2024)

Edward Berger turns the election of a pope into a procedural thriller, with Ralph Fiennes carrying a film of whispers, ballots and locked doors. Handsome, tense and quietly enjoyable. 8/10.

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The Wild Robot (2024)

The Wild Robot (2024)

DreamWorks sends a service robot ashore on a wild island and lets it learn to be a parent. A handsome, genuinely moving animation that earns its tears honestly. 8/10.

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Rebel Ridge (2024)

Rebel Ridge (2024)

Jeremy Saulnier swaps the woods for a corrupt Louisiana town and builds an action thriller that thinks before it hits. Tense, controlled and led by a star-making Aaron Pierre. 8/10.

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Alien - Romulus (2024)

Alien - Romulus (2024)

Fede Álvarez drops a young scavenging crew into a derelict station and a franchise that has not been this frightening in decades. Devout to a fault, but it works. 8/10.

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Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

The first R-rated film of the Marvel era turns up to bury the old Fox X-Men and resurrect Hugh Jackman in the same breath. Loud, filthy, and far more fun than it has any right to be. 8/10.

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Twisters (2024)

Twisters (2024)

A legacy follow-up to the 1996 storm-chaser that has no business working as well as it does, carried by practical spectacle and two leads with real chemistry. 8/10.

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Atlas (2024)

Atlas (2024)

Jennifer Lopez goes to war with artificial intelligence inside a talking mech, in a Netflix action picture the critics have written off and I had a much better time with than they did. 8/10.

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Furiosa - A Mad Max Saga (2024)

Furiosa - A Mad Max Saga (2024)

George Miller goes back to fill in the wasteland that made Furiosa, trading the single-chase purity of Fury Road for forty years of myth. Slower, stranger and grander, and a better film than the cooler reviews allow. 8.5/10.

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