The Los Angeles Times has compiled a list of the best movies, TV shows, music, and books of 2024. The list features picks from Times critics and entertainment writers, as well as a sampling of popular choices.
Good morning. Here's what we're covering today: We compiled the best everything of 2024. Huge waves are back to battering California's coast.A new wave of California sparkling wine is changing the bubbly game. And here's today's e-newspaper.I hope you’re making the most (or least?) of dead week — this lovely slowdown between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. This is the time of lounging, leftovers and a glut of year-end lists .
So of course, Times critics and entertainment writers have compiled several of their own, featuring their picks for the best films, music, TV shows, books and more over the last 50-some weeks. Here’s a sampling of those, in case you’re looking for something to watch, listen to or read before 2025. 🎞️ The year’s best films For her list this year, Times film critic Amy Nicholson focused on what felt fresh and in the moment as the movie industry struggles to rebound. “Seven of the movies on my top-10 list come from first- and second-time filmmakers, a supermajority that augurs well for 2025 and beyond,” she wrote. “Talent exists and it’s getting seen.” Below are a handful of Amy’s picks and honorable mentions. You can read through her full list here. “Anora”“Dune: Part Two”“Love Lies Bleeding”“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”“Nickel Boys”“Conclave”“The Brutalist”📺 The year’s best TV shows This year’s top tier programming did not share some sweeping cultural throughline, according to Times television critic Robert Lloyd, who grouped his picks by themes. “There are big historical dramas, avant-garde comedies, dual-reality science fiction series, cheeky period romps, true crime, personal tales in political frameworks, an eccentric comic mystery,” Robert wrote. “What they share is the sense that they have been made with evident commitment by people — people with a point of view, even a vision, not by an algorithm or artificial intelligence.” Here are several series and how he categorized the
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