On the cover: The 50 best films of 2024 – how many have you seen?
A packed double issue featuring interviews with Luca Guadagnino, RaMell Ross, Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, Robert Eggers, Amy Adams, Guy Maddin, Cate Blanchett and Jesse Eisenberg. Plus, directors including Guillermo del Toro, Wes Anderson and Alice Rohrwacher on their favourite festive films.
"What could the cinema do for us, in a year as violent and divided as 2024? It’s a lot to ask of art to save the planet, but it can at least, we hope, inform and educate, broadening our collective horizons – a salve in an age of misinformation, culture wars and starkly polarised political debates. The international diversity of this year’s winners and their subject matter, chosen by a global pool of critics, gives a heartening sense of broadened horizons. Cinema has always been the fastest way to travel."
Pamela Hutchinson, introducing our films of the year cover feature.
