The Best Movies of 2024

Halfway through 2024, I wrote that scary times call for scary movies. Several months later, the sentiment still holds—there haven’t exactly been glimmers of hope, on-screen or off.  The growing popular groundswell around Wicked and its broadly progressive, not-easy-being-green themes may be enough to earn it Best Picture, but escapist musical fantasies—even ones about the potential rise of fascism—seem out of place instead of right on time.