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As 2024 winds down and award season begins to heat up, it's strange to see how in many of the acting races, there isn't a clear-cut frontrunner. It's rare for any performance from this year to dominate any specific category, with various actors winning in regional critic circles.
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Posts Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist is a genuine beast of a film, beautifully scripted, immaculately shot, and positively loaded with emotional gravitas in its hefty 215-minute runtime. The film follows Hungarian-Jewish architect László Tóth , a Holocaust survivor separated from his family and floating aimlessly in America until meeting eventual patron, Harrison Lee Van Buren .
Posts1 ✕ Remove Ads Being a mother is a thankless job, especially when your husband is never around, your mother-in-law is nagging you, your daughter is heading off to college, and your newly-teenaged son is going through all sorts of hormones. But that's what makes Joan Chen's performance as Chungsing Wang such a standout in Sean Wang's Dìdi, as Chen does her best to keep her family afloat and usually with a smile on her face.
Release Date October 6, 2024 Director Luca Guadagnino Cast Daniel Craig , Jason Schwartzman , Lesley Manville , Drew Starkey , David Lowery , Henrique Zaga , Ariel Schulman , Colin Bates Runtime 135 Minutes ✕ Remove Ads Kieran Culkin 'A Real Pain' Related 'A Real Pain' Review: Kieran Culkin Is a Real Star in Jesse Eisenberg's Stellar Dramedy The film revolves around two cousins on a Holocaust tour after the death of their grandmother.
Posts Danielle Deadwyler gave probably the best performance of 2022 with her emotional, deeply powerful performance in Till. In Malcolm Washington's adaptation of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, Deadwyler brings that same level of intensity and strength to the role of Berniece Charles, who is trying to stop her brother, Boy Willie from selling the family piano.
Release Date December 25, 2024 Director Robert Eggers Cast Bill Skarsgard , Lily-Rose Depp , Nicholas Hoult , Willem Dafoe , Aaron Taylor-Johnson , Emma Corrin , Simon McBurney , Ralph Ineson , Paul Maynard , Stacy Thunes Runtime 132 Minutes ✕ Remove Ads Colman Domingo 'Sing Sing' Related 'Sing Sing' Review: Colman Domingo All But Secures His Second Oscar Nomination The powerful drama about a theater group at Sing Sing prison is full of surprises and soul.
Posts ✕ Remove Ads It's a miracle we even got to see The People's Joker this year, but if we hadn't, we'd be missing out on one of the funniest and most personal performances of the year. Vera Drew, who stars, directs, co-writes, edits, and who knows what else, plays Joker the Harlequin, an aspiring comedian who is trying to figure out their gender identity.
Release Date January 3, 2025 Director RaMell Ross Cast Ethan Herisse , Brandon Wilson , Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor , Hamish Linklater , Fred Hechinger , Daveed Diggs , Luke Tennie , Sunny Mabrey , Gralen Bryant Banks , Sara Osi Scott , Rachel Whitman Groves , Escalante Lundy , LeBaron Foster Thornton , Ethan Cole Sharp , Najah Bradley , Mike Harkins , Jimmie Fails Runtime 140 Minutes Expand ✕ Remove Ads Cynthia Erivo 'Wicked' Related 'Wicked' Review: Jon M.
Posts Ralph Fiennes gives two award-worthy performances this year in both The Return and Conclave, but it’s the latter performance that is a true stand-out among lead actors this year. Under the keen direction of Academy Award nominee Edward Berger, Fiennes shoulders the immense burdens of Cardinal Lawrence in the taut papal thriller that is gripping the nation.
Release Date November 13, 2024 Director Jacques Audiard Cast Karla Sofía Gascón , Zoe Saldana , Selena Gomez , Adriana Paz , Edgar Ramirez , Mark Ivanir , Eduardo Aladro , Emiliano Edmundo Hasan Jalil , James Gerard , Eric Geynes , Agathe Bokja , Chun-Ting Lin , Stéphane Ly-Cuong , Line Phé , Pascal Toussirot , Karla Lazo Runtime 130 Minutes Expand Ariana Grande 'Wicked' 4:03 Related Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo Reveal Which Iconic 'Wicked' Songs Tested...
Posts While it’s become very clear that Hugh Grant has no interest in continuing to play the kinds of lovey-dovey romantic roles that made him a star in the ‘90s and 2000s, it still seems like a bit of a surprise to see him turn up in a horror film as the devilish mind behind unimaginable terrors.
✕ Remove Ads Baptiste stars as the irritable, cantankerous, and depressed Pansy who many would just dismiss as a middle-aged “Karen,” but Leigh’s keen eye for the complexities of human existence allows us to see a mistreated, ignored, and frightened woman.
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Posts It takes a lot for any actor to match Colman Domingo on screen, but with Sing Sing, Clarence Maclin, in his feature debut might even overtake the Oscar nominee. Sing Sing is partially based on the experiences of Maclin, who plays himself in the film, and we can feel the catharsis this theater group for the incarcerated can give those who engage in the program.
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✕ Remove Ads Roz manages to start the film as a cold and sterile, almost Baymax-esque robot devoid of any emotional intelligence. Still, throughout the film, she becomes a caring mother who learns how to love her adopted son and community. This all works thanks to Nyong’o’s incredible performance. She clearly communicates the evolution of this character’s change from her whimsical robotic voice work in the first act to the heartbreaking emotion of the third.
Release Date March 3, 2024 Director Rose Glass Cast Kristen Stewart , Katy O'Brian , Jena Malone , Anna Baryshnikov , Dave Franco , Ed Harris Runtime 104 Minutes ✕ Remove Ads Guy Pearce 'The Brutalist' As the wealthy industrialist Harry Lee Van Buren, Guy Pearce's character in The Brutalist is hard to pin down.
Posts ✕ Remove Ads The films of Jeremy Saulnier, like Blue Ruin and Green Room, often put characters in over their heads with daunting obstacles. But that's absolutely not the case with Aaron Pierre's Terry Richmond in Rebel Ridge. As a former Marine facing off against a corrupt group of small-town law enforcement, Terry knows the hypocrisy, deception, and likely violence he's walking into, but walks into these situations with steady determination.
Release Date January 20, 2024 Director Megan Park Cast Maisy Stella , Percy Hynes White , Maddie Ziegler , Seth Isaac Johnson , Kerrice Brooks , Aubrey Plaza Runtime 88 Minutes Jesse Plemons 'Kinds of Kindness' Related 'Kinds of Kindness' Review: Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone Are Killer Good Will the real Yorgos Lanthimos please stand up?
✕ Remove Ads Inspired by a real story, Hit Man centers on Gary Johnson, a mild-mannered teacher and occasional tech guy for the New Orleans Police Department, who becomes a valuable asset by posing as a fake hitman to prevent murder-for-hire schemes. When he gets too close to one of his marks, Gary finds himself pushing his boundaries further than ever. Powell is charm incarnate in Hit Man; he isn't trying to be alluring, he simply is, and that's far more impressive.
Release Date October 4, 2024 Director Nora Fingscheidt Cast Saoirse Ronan , Paapa Essiedu , Stephen Dillane , Saskia Reeves Runtime 118 Minutes Naomi Scott 'Smile 2' ✕ Remove Ads Related ‘Smile 2' Review: A Stellar Horror Sequel That Improves on the Terrifying Original The horror movie also stars Lukas Gage, Kyle Gallner, and Rosemarie DeWitt.
Smith’s performance is easily one of the year’s most devastating, depicting depression and anxiety with a raw and unflinching numbness. The horror in I Saw the TV Glow lies not in its gore but in its all-encompassing sense of dread and the oppressive nature of regret and missed opportunities that Smith increasingly wears on his face and forces the audience to confront.
✕ Remove Ads Squibb brings a nuance to her performance that the entire film hinges on — have any less understanding of its structure as a comedy aping the action movie tropes we’ve all come to know and love, and the whole thing crumbles. But not on her watch; with Squibb at the helm, Thelma is a whip-smart, passionate, and loving woman, whose relationship with her grandson is the emotional core of the entire film.
Release Date October 9, 2024 Director Walter Salles Cast Fernanda Torres , Fernanda Montenegro , Selton Mello , Valentina Herszage , Maeve Jinkings , Dan Stulbach , Humberto Carrão , Carla Ribas , Maitê Padilha , Guilherme Silveira , Cora Ramalho , Bárbara Luz , Daniel Pereira Runtime 137 Minutes Expand Denzel Washington 'Gladiator II' Related 'Gladiator II' Review: Ridley Scott's Sequel Is a Grand Epic That Can’t Escape Maximus' Shadow Denzel Washington,...
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