How many have you seen? And do you agree with our first-half of 2024 ranking? We’re past the halfway mark of 2024 and fall festival season is soon upon us...
Time for a lookback at the movies which have already made our year. These are the highlights you should cross off your watchlist if you haven’t already. So far, we’ve been treated to a wide variety of big screen offerings: tear-jerkers, tennis-fueled love triangles, sombre dramas, introspective character studies, surreal neo-noirs and Timothée Chalamet wrestling with a messiah-complex.
The criterion for this list is less varied: the movies need to have been released in European cinemas - or online - from January 2024 onwards – regardless of whether some titles came out in the US at the tail end of 2023. And before we start our countdown to the best movie of the year so far, don’t be surprised if you don’t see the likes of , , or - they were all in our , as they were released in mainland Europe last year. Let’s get to it, shall we? This silly yet touching ode to silent(ish) cinema from directors Nathan and David Zellner ( , and last year’s satirical black comedy TV series The Curse) feels like a trolling exercise in its first half hour.
Stick with it though, and there’s more to it than initially meets the eye. follows four sasquatches (including an unrecognizable Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg) as the mythical creatures make their way through the mountains and forests over the course of four seasons..
