Featuring war photographers, musical icons and stupendously-sized sandworms From a furious Furiosa to a tragic Amy Winehouse, the first six months at the movies has been nothing short of spectacular. So here’s NME ’s list of the best 15 films so far in 2024..
. Words: James Mottram Director: Andrew Haigh Andrew Scott’s lonely London screenwriter Adam finds company in the arms of Paul Mescal’s neighbour in this heartbreaking look at family, surrogate or otherwise. Jamie Bell and Claire Foy are superb as Adam’s late parents, but it’s the atmosphere of memory and mortality that writer-director Haigh conjures that really sells it.
The killer ending, cut to Frankie Goes To Hollywood ’s ‘The Power of Love’, will absolutely destroy you. For fans of: Weekend (2011), Ghost (1990) Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal in ‘All Of Us Strangers’. CREDIT: Searchlight Pictures Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson Adeptly capturing her unforgettable sound, Marisa Abela ( Industry ) simply knocks it out the park as Amy Winehouse in Taylor-Johnson’s biopic of the late Camden singer.
With Jack O’Connell oozing cocksure charm as love-of-her-life Black Fielder-Civil, this truly spirited audiences back to London in the early 2000s when Winehouse’s vocals were ringing out everywhere. Lesley Manville as the singer’s grandmother brought the class. For fans of: Nowhere Boy (2009), Elvis (2022) Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse in ‘Back to Black’.
CREDIT: STUDIOCANAL Director: Luca Guadagni.