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Biography Movies 2024: New & Upcoming Biography Movies 2024 List

Top Biography Movies 2024

A Complete Unknown

The Apprentice

Unstoppable

The Fire Inside

The Featherweight

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Coming Out December TBA, 2024

Unstoppable PG-13

Coming out wednesday, december 25, 2024.

The Fire Inside PG-13

Coming Out Friday, October 11, 2024

Released Friday, September 13, 2024

Coming Out Friday, September 20, 2024

Coming Out Friday, September 27, 2024

Released Friday, August 9, 2024

Girl You Know It’s True

Released friday, august 30, 2024.

Reagan PG-13

Released tuesday, june 4, 2024.

Back to Black R

Released friday, may 3, 2024.

Released Friday, May 17, 2024

Released friday, may 24, 2024.

The Beach Boys PG-13

Released friday, april 5, 2024.

Released Friday, March 8, 2024

Cabrini PG-13

Released monday, march 11, 2024.

The Shamrock Spitfire

Released friday, march 22, 2024.

Shirley PG-13

Released friday, march 29, 2024.

Released Friday, February 2, 2024

The Promised Land R

Released wednesday, february 14, 2024.

Bob Marley: One Love PG-13

Released friday, january 5, 2024.

Race for Glory R

Released thursday, january 25, 2024.

Griselda (series)

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New Biographical Movies Of 2024, Ranked By Fans

Vote on these new biographical films released in the US in 2024.

As the clock ticks forward unveiling more of what 2024 has to offer, the silver screen lights up with a new roster of biographical movies that promise to enchant, educate, and entertain us. These tales, meticulously carved out from the pages of history and the whispers of the past, are more than just cinematic excursions; they are time capsules that bring to life the stories of trailblazers, artists, and unsung heroes who have shaped our world in myriad ways.

In this article, we look ahead with eager anticipation at the most talked-about biopics set to hit theaters and streaming platforms this year. Each film has been thoughtfully selected for its potential to be an exceptional new biopic, and now, as a Ranker, the power rests in your hands. While you peruse our curated list below, we invite you to actively participate in the conversation by casting your votes. Which of these narratives captivated you? Which performances left you awestruck? It's time for your voice to be heard.

Moreover, the convenience of accessing these films has reached unparalleled heights. You no longer need to shuffle through various platforms to find where to watch; easy-to-use streaming buttons for Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV+, and Paramount+ are ready to whisk you away to the film of your choice. Effortlessly stream these stories, whether you're nestled at home or on the go, and be part of a viewing experience that's both intimate and universal.

As you dive into this list, remember that these films were expertly chosen for their merits as fresh and compelling biopics. They represent a variety of lives—from the echoing lyrics of musicians who've touched our hearts, to the bold strokes of artists who've redefined the world around us, to the strategic minds whose innovations have blazed trails for the future.

So, without further ado, embrace this cinematic journey through time and character. We can't wait to see which biographical movies will rise to the occasion through your votes, and we encourage you to engage with each story that unfolds before your eyes.

Bob Marley: One Love

This film features the powerful journey of the legendary Jamaican musician Bob Marley, as he rises above hardships to become a global icon of peace with his music. The film features a stellar performance by Kingsley Ben-Adir in the lead role, supported by talented actors including Lashana Lynch, James Norton, and Tosin Cole under the direction of Reinaldo Marcus Green. 

This biopic resonates as a heartfelt tribute to Marley's enduring legacy and the cultural influence of his revolutionary songs which continue to inspire generations.

• Actors : Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, James Norton, Tosin Cole, Umi Myers
• Released : 2024
• Directed by : Reinaldo Marcus Green

Here is an intimate and inspirational portrait of Shirley Chisholm, the pioneering politician who became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress and made a historic bid for the presidency. Regina King shines in the titular role, with a cast comprising Lance Reddick and Terrence Howard, all under John Ridley's astute direction.

The film is a poignant celebration of Chisholm's remarkable achievements and a powerful reminder of her relentless fight against the barriers of race and gender in American politics.

• Actors : Regina King, Lance Reddick, Terrence Howard, Lucas Hedges, Michael Cherrie
• Directed by : John Ridley

Einstein and the Bomb

A unique blend of docudrama storytelling that looks into Albert Einstein's role and dilemmas after escaping Nazi Germany, exploring his connection to the creation of the atomic bomb. Aidan McArdle leads a cast that brings Einstein's complicated persona to life, with Andrew Havill and others, directed with insight by Anthony Philipson.

This biographical film is a profound exploration of the ethical struggles of one of history's greatest minds, and the deep impact of his actions during a pivotal moment in modern history.

• Actors : Aidan McArdle, Andrew Havill, Leo Ashizawa, Rachel Barry, Helena Westerman
• Directed by : Anthony Philipson

This biopic highlights the remarkable journey of Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini, who arrives in New York City in the late 19th century and dedicates her life to helping the needy, ultimately becoming America's first saint. Cristiana Dell'Anna portrays Mother Cabrini with poignancy, and the film also stars Giancarlo Giannini and David Morse under the compassionate direction of Alejandro Monteverde.

It is a testament to Cabrini's unwavering compassion and entrepreneurial spirit, capturing her profound impact on the lives of the impoverished and her lasting legacy in social work and healthcare reform.

• Actors : Cristiana Dell'Anna, Romana Maggiora Vergano, David Morse, Giancarlo Giannini, Patch Darragh
• Directed by : Alejandro Monteverde

• Actors : Terry Chen, Greg Kinnear, Danni Wang, Raymond Ma, Ben Wang
• Released : 2023
• Directed by : Andrew Hyatt

• Actors : Gillian Anderson, Billie Piper, Rufus Sewell, Keeley Hawes, Romola Garai
• Directed by : Philip Martin

44 Best Biography Movies _(Updated_2024)

1. A Beautiful Mind

3. The Imitation Game

4. Spotlight

5. The Pianist

6. Searching for Bobby Fischer

7. Ayla: The Daughter of War

8. Ford v Ferrari

9. Hacksaw Ridge

10. The Intouchables

11. 127 Hours

12. Schindler's List

14. The King's Speech

15. The Social Network

16. Green Book

17. Moneyball

18. The Professor and the Madman

19. Girl with a Pearl Earring

21. The Theory of Everything

22. The Railway Man

23. Braveheart

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Movie Biopics on the Way: Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump, Selena Gomez as Linda Ronstadt and More

The biographical drama, or biopic as it is widely known, is often a staple of the movie release calendar. Paramount Pictures already has one of the year’s big hits thanks to its Bob Marley biopic “One Love,” featuring Kingsley Ben-Adir as the reggae music icon, which has earned more than $170 million at the worldwide box office. And that’s not the only biopic that has already opened in 2024: “Shirley,” starring Regina King as Shirley Chisholm, is now streaming on Netflix, and Angel Studios was behind the eponymous biopic about Catholic missionary Francesca Cabrini, which is nearing $20 million worldwide.

Of course, one of the biggest movies of last year was Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.” The Robert Oppenheimer drama earned nearly $1 billion at the worldwide box office and won the Oscar for best picture, although Nolan himself would not call it a biopic . The genre can be a box office goldmine, and it can also be an awards season juggernaut. Just look at some of the recent best actor Oscar winners: Cillian Murphy for “Oppenheimer,” Will Smith for “King Richard,” Rami Malek for “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Gary Oldman for “Darkest Hour.” All of these movies were biopics.

The biopic genre isn’t slowing down anytime soon either. Timothée Chalamet has been making headlines left and right as set photos come in from the filming of “A Complete Unknown,” the Bob Dylan biopic being directed by “Walk the Line” helmer James Mangold. See the list below for a complete rundown of the most high-profile biopic movies on the way.

Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan

Timothée Chalamet is traveling back to the early 1960s to portray Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s “A Complete Unknown,” which will chronicle the music legend’s arrival to New York from Minnesota and his emergence in and disruption of the Greenwich Village folk scene. Photos of Chalamet draped in ’60s garb during the production of the movie have gone viral online , despite the release date for the Dylan film remaining a complete unknown. What is known is many of the supporting cast members, including Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash and Nick Offerman as Alan Lomax. Dylan himself is also apparently involved behind the scenes, as Mangold revealed he personally annotated the script and has been supportive of the film.

Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen

While no deals are set in stone yet, “The Bear” star Jeremy Allen White is in talks to play Bruce Springsteen in a movie about the making of “Nebraska,” the stripped-down 1982 album that marked a new artistic direction for the Boss. Springsteen recorded “Nebraska” on four-track cassette in his New Jersey bedroom a few years before he and the E Street Band would release the landmark “Born in the U.S.A.” The film is based on (and shares a title with) Warren Zanes’ 2023 book “Deliver Me From Nowhere,” and it hails from producers Eric Robinson and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein of the Gotham Group. A24 is also in talks to board the project, and Scott Stuber, in his first major film project since leaving his post as head of film at Netflix, has joined as a producer.

Selena Gomez as Linda Ronstadt

Selena Gomez is set to portray Linda Ronstadt in a biopic directed by David O. Russell . The music movie is currently in pre-production, with producers including James Keach, who produced the 2019 documentary “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,” and Ronstadt’s manager, John Boylan. Gomez, whose acting credits include “Wizards of Waverly Place” and “Only Murders in the Building,” teased the role on Instagram by posting a photo of the country-rock legend and 11-time Grammy winner’s 2013 memoir “Simple Dreams.” No other casting has been announced.

Four Beatles Biopics Directed by Sam Mendes

Sam Mendes has embarked on the long and winding road to telling the epic story of the Beatles — in four separate biopics set for release in 2027. Each movie will be told from a different Beatle’s point of view, but it’s unclear in which order the Paul, John, George and Ringo films will be released. The movies, from Sony Pictures and the Oscar-nominated director of “American Beauty” and “1917,” will intersect to “tell the astonishing story of the greatest band in history.” Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and the families of the late John Lennon and George Harrison have granted full life story and music rights for the scripted films, so we can expect a soundtrack of the band’s greatest songs. No casting has been announced, but Variety has a few ideas for who should portray the Fab Four.

Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump

Sebastian Stan  is playing young Donald Trump  in a movie titled “The Apprentice” from Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi (“Holy Spider”). The cast also includes “Succession” Emmy winner Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and “Borat 2” and “Bodies Bodies Bodies” actor Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump. According to the logline, the film is “an exploration of power and ambition set in a world of corruption and deceit. It’s a mentor-protege story that charts the origins of an American dynasty. Filled with larger than life characters, it reveals the moral and human cost of a culture defined by winners and losers.”

Pauly Shore as Richard Simmons

After playing Richard Simmons in an unrelated Sundance short film titled “The Court Jester,” Pauly Shore will reprise the role of the fitness icon in a feature-length biopic from Warner Bros. subsidiary The Wolper Organization. Just hours after the film was announced, the reclusive Simmons disavowed the project on Facebook , writing, “I have never given my permission for this movie. So don’t believe everything you read.” Still, the team behind the movie insists, “We respect his desire to privacy and plan to produce a movie that honors him, celebrates him and tells a dramatic story.” Additional casting for the movie is underway.

Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson

Jaafar Jackson is portraying his uncle  Michael Jackson in Lionsgate‘s upcoming biopic “Michael,” directed by Antoine Fuqua. The biopic is expected to depict the complicated legacy of the man who became known as the King of Pop. According to the studio, the film will explore all aspects of his life, “including his most iconic performances that led him to become the greatest entertainer of all time.” The film is being made with the cooperation of the Michael Jackson estate. The supporting cast includes Colman Domingo as Joe Jackson, Nia Long as Katherine Jackson, Miles Teller as John Branca and Kat Graham as Diana Ross, among others.

Elon Musk Biopic Directed by Darren Aronofsky

An Elon Musk biopic is in development at A24  with Darren Aronofsky on board to direct. Walter Isaacson’s authorized biography of the controversial tech mogul, published in September 2023, is serving as the basis for the screenplay. Isaacson’s “Steve Jobs” book was previously adapted into the 2015 Universal film of the same name, starring Michael Fassbender as the Apple CEO. Musk  addressed the news on X  when it was announced by writing in response: “Glad Darren is doing it. He is one of the best.”

Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas 

Angelina Jolie  is transforming into legendary opera singer Maria Callas in the latest biopic from “Jackie” and “Spencer” director Pablo Larraín. The movie will “explore the life of the legendary, iconic and controversial singer, often described as the original diva,” according to its official description. “Based on true accounts, ‘Maria’ tells the tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest opera singer, relived and re-imagined during her final days in 1970s Paris.”

Jolie’s costumes will be based on real garments worn by Callas, including vintage fur items from Massimo Cantini Parrini’s archive collection, on which the crew consulted with PETA in order to not use any new fur.

Daisy Edgar-Jones as Carole King

Daisy Edgar-Jones is playing Carole King in Sony’s upcoming film adaptation of the stage musical “ Beautiful .” The “Normal People” star and upcoming “Twisters” actor is familiar to Sony, having starred in the studio’s box office winner “Where the Crawdads Sing.” She will be directed in “Beautiful” by Academy Award nominee Lisa Cholodenko (“The Kids Are All Right”). Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg, who co-wrote “Kids Are All Right” together, are behind the script.

“Daisy has a spirit and energy that I recognized as myself when I was younger. She’s a tremendous talent and I know she’s going to give a great performance,” King told  Variety .

Tom Holland as Fred Astaire

“Spider-Man” star  Tom Holland  has long been attached to a biopic on the legendary actor, dancer and singer  Fred Astaire for Sony Pictures, the studio where Holland has made a name for herself as the world’s most iconic web-slinger. The actor is already a trained tap dancer.

“Fred Astaire does have a very particular style,” Holland told Variety shortly after the project was first announced. “‘Billy Elliot’ was very much a kind of like scuffy boot kind of tap dancer whereas he is very elegant and graceful so I’ll probably have to learn how to do that. But it’s something I’m gonna practice, something I’m very excited for and I think it will be a fantastic film.”

Billy Porter as James Baldwin

Billy Porter is preparing to portray the author and civil rights activist James Baldwin in an upcoming biopic. He will also co-write the untitled movie with Dan McCabe, which will be adapted from the 1994 book “James Baldwin: A Biography” by David Leeming. An emeritus professor of English at the University of Connecticut, Leeming was well-versed in the world of Baldwin as his friend of 25 years as well as his assistant.

Porter says it has been a career-long dream to tell the story of Baldwin on film. Born in Harlem in 1924, Baldwin was a Black gay writer whose influential works include “Go Tell It on the Mountain,” “Notes of a Native Son” and “If Beale Street Could Talk.” In addition to writing, Baldwin fought for racial justice in the U.S. civil rights movement. In Leeming’s book, he’s described as a “complex, troubled, driven and brilliant man” who has a “gift for compassion and love.”

Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse

Starring “Industry” actor Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse and directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson (“Nowhere Boy,” “Fifty Shades of Grey”), the upcoming music biopic “Back to Black” tracks career highs and lows of the music icon.

“‘Back to Black’ is a never-before-seen glimpse into Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame and the release of her groundbreaking studio album, ‘Back to Black,” the logline reads. “Told from Amy’s perspective, the film is an unapologetic look at the woman behind the phenomenon and the relationship that inspired one of the most legendary albums of all time.”

Hari Nef as Candy Darling

“Barbie” and “Transparent” star Hari Nef is playing Andy Warhol superstar Candy Darling in a biopic directed by Zachary Drucker. John Cameron Mitchell is also attached to the untitled film about the transgender icon as executive producer. The film traces Darling’s childhood in Long Island through her years alongside underground icons Holly Woodlawn and Jackie Curtis in Warhol’s Factory scene, and her influence on musicians including Lou Reed, the Velvet Underground and Patti Smith. She was immortalized in popular songs including Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” and The Velvet Underground’s “Candy Says.”

Colman Domingo as Nat King Cole

Oscar nominee Colman Domingo will be starring as the legendary singer Nat King Cole in a movie musical from a script he co-wrote. He will also be making his feature directing debut on the project. This isn’t Domingo’s first rodeo with Cole, as he co-wrote the play “Lights Out: Nat ‘King’ Cole” with Patricia McGregor that premiered at the Geffen Playhouse. That interpretation imagines what might have been going through the singer’s mind during his 1957 Christmas special on “The Nat King Cole Show,” the first network program hosted by an African American.

“I’ve been working on it quietly for a few years,” Domingo said during  a  Variety  Awards Circuit Podcast episode earlier this year. “It’s something I’m looking forward to putting together with some great partners.”

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Upcoming Biopics 2024: 10 Movies to Look Forward To

Ever since Oppenheimer and Bob Marley: One Love has taken over the cinematic scene, it’s clear that no one can pass up on a good ole biopic. If you love biopics just as much as the next person, then you’ll be ecstatic to know that 10 famous biopics are coming your way.

1. James Baldwin’s Biopic

The writer who wrote to revolutionize, James Baldwin, is a figure that can’t be forgotten. Billy Porter will take the role of the human rights activist in the upcoming untitled James Baldwin biopic ; the adaptation of the 1944 novel, James Baldwin: A Biography by David Leeming.

2. Linda Ronstadt’s Biopic

Linda Ronstadt, probably one of the most iconic and impactful female singers of the 1970s, will have her biopic moment. What’s amazing is that Selena Gomez will be portraying the 11-Grammy-award-winning singer in the Linda Ronstadt biopic .

3. Donald Trump’s Biopic

For Donald Trump , climbing up the ladder of politics, as a businessman, was surprising along every curve. Sebastian Stan will play the role of the businessman-turned-president in The Apprentice , with a release of May 20th, 2024, the anticipated Donald Trump biopic .

4. Michael Jackson’s Biopic

If the fact that there’s a biopic on the King of Pop coming to screens is not thrilling enough, then how about the fact that Michael Jackson’s nephew, Jaafar Jackson, is starring, as the legendary moon-walker himself? Michael is coming to rule the cinema in 2025 with the Michael Jackson biopic .

5. Elon Musk’s Biopic

Although not much has surfaced about the biopic of 2024’s wealthiest man alive, it’s safe to say that the Oscar-winning director for the movie Black Swan , Darren Aronofsky, will work his magic, faster than you can say “X”. The Elon Musk biopic is highly anticipated.

6. Fred Astaire’s Biopic

Tom Holland is swapping his red bodysuit for dancing shoes, as he will star as the actor and dancer with moves more fluid than water, Fred Astaire . Details about the Fred Astaire biopic are still under wraps.

7. Bob Dylan’s Biopic

Timothée Chalamet is donning 60’s outfits, to grace the silver screens with his role as the Shakespeare of 1960s music . A Complete Unknown , a biopic based on not only the life but the impact and uprising of Bob Dylan, will be a treat for all senses in the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic .

8. The Beatles’ Biopic

Even if you weren’t born in the 60’s, The Beatles is not a foreign name. Hailed as the best pop music band, Director Sam Mendes is coming out with not just one, but four biopics, each focusing on John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. The Beatles biopic is one to watch out for.

9. Carole King’s Biopic

Carole King, the woman with a soulful voice and a contagious smile, will take her spot on the biopic list. Daisy Edgar-Jones will star in Beautiful , a musical biopic on the 20th-century singer-songwriter, making the Carole King biopic highly anticipated.

10. Maria Callas’ Biopic

Angelina Jolie is starring as the renowned opera singer Maria Callas in Maria . It’s going to be an emotion-packed ride, based on the 1970s singer’s controversial life and hiccups, making the Maria Callas biopic a must-watch.

Whether it’s entrepreneurs’ lives or the journey of your favorite music band, these upcoming biopics will knock you off your feet.

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Have you been looking for a comprehensive list of every Biography movie premiering this month and in the future? Look no further, our Biography movie release date schedule below is the most up to date and comprehensive list of every Biography movie release date!

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The Best Films of 2024 So Far

While so many people seem increasingly, almost obsessively concerned with how much money certain films are (or are not) making, it feels like the art conversation has been degraded this year. It’s a shame, because 2024 has been remarkably strong for the cinematic form. In fact, it’s been such a good year so far that we wanted to do a halftime check-in, assembling a list of 20 of our regular film critics’ most cited favorites. 

We’ll save the ranking for the end of the year, when you’ll likely be reading about a few of these flicks again. Still, hopefully this feature can help you catch up before the fall film schedule and inevitable awards season chatter allow us to forget what really matters. It’s not the money, it’s the movies. And here are 20 great ones.

“ The Beast ”

With COVID project “Coma” having turned Bonello’s gaze inward, he has reached further inside himself than ever, further even than the semi-autobiographical likes of “The Pornographer” and “ Saint Laurent ” allowed him to go. Léa Seydoux’s body is his mind, pressed and corseted and hounded and hunted, while he himself chases the fumes of past expeditions into nothingness. 

The signature shades of David Lynch and Henry James are left like paint on the surface of a pool; we must sink below them to discover what he’s searching for beneath the obvious references to LA surrealism, school shooters, and climate change. That identity is a performance; that romance is implanted like the Manchurian Candidate’s code phrase; that fulfillment has always been controlled by paymasters; that art may seem the emergency exit from blind alleys, but it is just a primal scream in designer clothes. 

Yet those surface pleasures are so stately and true that the terror is effectively caged. Gorgeous costuming and precise sound design, and Seydoux trusted to uphold more than a century of performative social cues as the clothes change, but the attitudes refuse to budge. She’s anchor and angel, Bonello’s easy answer to Leos Carax ’s Denis Lavant , fearlessly physical, wonderfully inscrutable, and she wears the film like a scarf around her neck. – Scout Tafoya

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“ Challengers ”

In case you haven’t gotten the memo yet: tennis is an extremely erotic sport, alright? But how could it not be in the hands of the “ Call Me by Your Name ” and “A Bigger Splash” writer/director Luca Guadagnino , one of the most sensual filmmakers working today? Throughout his kinetic “Challengers” that aims straight at your five senses, the Italian filmmaker puts the ridiculously good-looking threesome of Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist (all portraying gifted racket wielders) at the center of a string of high-stakes tennis matches that take only two but feels sorely incomplete without the third.

And so each of these unofficial love triangle corners muscle their way inside their unique coterie of frenemies on and off the court within an inventive narrative structure that sprouts flashbacks within flashbacks. As “Challengers” untangles the trio’s long-standing desires for and grudges against each other as partners and rivals, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross ’ techno beats (in one of the best original soundtracks of this decade) escalate the impact of each sweaty drop and grunt, as balls dangerously take flight and land with a thud.

By the end of the movie, it’s truly shocking how invested we feel in the impossible union of this unholy trinity. Honestly? The whole thing smells like sex, and we love Guadagnino for it. – Tomris Laffly

“ Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World ”

Radu Jude ’s sense of humor comes with a bitter, unforgettable aftertaste. At first, his latest comedy feels like an apathetic lark, a study of the insignificance of the roles we play in this increasingly fractured world. Watching the put-upon production assistant Angela ( Ilinca Manolache ) scramble to create a work safety video as she scrambles around Bucharest leads to moments of undeniable humor, especially in the unmasking of her toxic internet personality. Still, the way the film inverts that set-up in its second half gives Jude’s work such power. 

All of this planning and coordinating transitions to the actual video shoot itself, wherein it becomes clear that the video is more of a way to partake in a practice that happens worldwide as companies shift blame to those that society should be doing more to protect. So much of life, including the TikTok videos we ingest, can feel shallow and forgettable, but all of this slowly adds up to something that lands like a punch. Maybe we shouldn’t expect too much from the end of the world because we’ve been too distracted to notice we’re already in it. – Brian Tallerico

“ Dune: Part Two ”

Howard Hawks once said that a great movie consists of three great scenes and no bad ones. “Dune: Part Two” is surely a great movie by that yardstick (my picks for the three great scenes are Paul’s first ride on a sandworm, the arena scene on Geidi Prime that establishes the thread of Feyd-Rautha, and Paul defeating the Sardaukar with nuclear weapons and sandworms) but it’s ultimately more than that. After an early career focus on arthouse dramas, filmmaker Denis Villeneuve segued into Hollywood action with a psychological dimension and has proven himself a master of spectacle in a series of adult science fiction epics, including “ Arrival ,” “ Blade Runner 2049 ” and “Dune: Part One,” featuring such clean storytelling, study characterizations and richly detailed worlds that they reward repeat viewings. Like its predecessor, but even more so, “Dune: Part Two” channels David Lean’s “ Lawrence of Arabia ” (which might’ve partly inspired “Dune” creator Frank Hebert in the first place), and like Lean’s classic, it’s a monumental visceral experience, a thing that happens to you as you watch it. – Matt Zoller Seitz

“ Evil Does Not Exist ”

The final shot in Ryusuke Hamaguchi ’s ecological drama “Evil Does Not Exist” is perplexing. It is pure sound, soundtracked by the rapid breathing of a frightened father. One might consider it opaque: we can only guess the fates of these characters in a conclusion where the symbolism isn’t immediately apparent. Hamaguchi has also distilled each element, picture and sound, down to their essence in a film enamored with  the unadorned, the simple, and the natural.

With his young daughter Hana ( Ryo Nishikawa ), the handyman Takumi ( Hitoshi Omika ) lives in the small secluded Japanese town of Mizubiki. Two representatives — hired actors, really — have arrived in town to sell the prospects of a corporation building a glamping site. They tell the villagers of the financial benefits they’ll receive only to be rebuffed by fears of what this site and the outsiders it’ll bring will do to the forest and the town’s precious stream. Takumi becomes an intermediary between the town and these representatives, who, despite their outward attentiveness, care as little for the town as the craven industrialists.

Such an intimate, seemingly less ambitious work is surprising for Hamaguchi following the success of “ Drive My Car ” and “ Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy .” This isn’t a three-hour mood piece or a sprawling omnibus. But when a filmmaker zigs, when everyone wants them to zag, that’s when you sense the real character of the artist. In the quiet surroundings of “Evil Does Not Exist,” Hamaguchi crafts his most imperative work yet—one that says as much about our lethal relationship with corporations and our disrespect of nature as it does the contents of our souls. – Robert Daniels

“ The First Omen ”

“The First Omen” is Arkasha Stevenson ’s debut and a magic show of purposeful camera theatrics. Nell Tiger Free – whom the film suggests could be the next Isabelle Adjani though she carries as much of Huppert’s flinty exasperation in her tight jaw and unblinking eyes – is a novitiate tasked with giving Christians something to fear and audiences someone to enjoy being castigated. Suitably for a Rome-set thriller in the early ‘70s, Stevenson seems to be taking cues from Luigi Bazzoni, whose nightmarish conspiracy thrillers had a similar footfall, visual clarity and psychological murkiness. The clearer things become, the more insane our heroine feels. Drifting down corridors towards fate unknown, lusty things with ill intent and smiling benevolent faces leading you to Miltonian abnormality. With every carefully choreographed movement we’re told that Free’s grimy, sweaty, bloody journey was just as meticulously orchestrated from without. How could such monstrosity have a human face? How could what was, on paper, a shameless cash-in prequel become the best directed American film of the year? The devil works in mysterious ways. – Scout Tafoya

“ Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga ”

At the Cannes press conference for his 2008 biographical epic “ Che ,” the director Steven Soderbergh let off a little steam about the critical reaction to his picture, “I find it hilarious that people always complain about movies being the same, and then when something different comes along — a film that deals the cards in a different way — they say why isn’t it more conventional?” I thought of this when some assessors of “Furiosa” complained that it didn’t end with a spectacular car chase — the biggest action set piece, which, make no mistake, is as much as if not more than a doozy than anything in director George Miller ’s last apocalyptic masterwork, “ Mad Max: Fury Road ,” is in the middle of the picture — and that it suffered from not having Max himself in the mix, and whatever. The thing about Miller, though, is even when he’s working in worlds that he constructed himself, revisiting landscapes and characters, he doesn’t repeat himself.

“Furiosa” isn’t a “girl boss” story — the title character derives pretty much zero gratification from the power she eventually seizes. It’s a story of revenge as justice, and it’s gritty and nasty in ways that even the gnarliest prior “Max” pictures don’t touch. Are you curious how Charlize Theron ’s “Fury Road” character lost that arm? Playing her younger incarnation, Anya-Taylor Joy shows you. It’s a real “ouch” moment. The kinky grotesquerie against which her character must eventually triumph sometimes makes this feel like the world’s most expensive Ozploitation film. That’s a good thing, as are the Sergio Leone echoes in the movie’s finale. – Glenn Kenny

“ Ghostlight ”

You’ve heard the phrases: “Creativity takes courage.” (Henri Matisse) “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.” ( Oscar Wilde ) “Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.” ( Roger Ebert )

It’s hard to name another film this year—or any year—that gets to the heart of all these phrases and then some. Indeed, the “ Saint Frances ” filmmaking duo Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson deliver something so rare and delicate with “Ghostlight” that you might just run to your closest community theater and join their next production upon seeing their gem, just for the sake of creating art as a means to navigate your own troubles. The story is of a family—played by the real-life family of Keith Kupferer , Katherine Mallen Kupferer , and Tara Mallen —on the heels of a recent tragedy that the film reveals gradually. To fill the void of his unemployment and perhaps to steer his explosive emotions, papa Kupferer’s Dan joins a local community’s upcoming staging of Romeo & Juliet , slowly realizing that art and life can be one and the same.

A beautiful statement on the healing powers of an artistic community, a gentle inquiry into the old-fashioned shades of masculinity, and an enduring study of forgiveness, “Ghostlight” shines bright with familial love. Bring tissues. – Tomris Laffly

“Green Border”

Watching this engrossing and often harrowing film for the first time last year in Venice, I was sometimes reminded of a long-ago film by one of Polish director Agnieszka Holland ’s forebears and colleagues, Andrzej Wajda . (Holland began her career assistant directing for the older Wajda as it happens.) The Wajda film is “Kanal,” a bleak and relentless story of Polish resistance fighters trying to escape encroaching Nazis through the sewers of Warsaw. In “Green Border,” the parties we’re meant to identify with are refugee migrants who’ve been rooked. Promised safe passage to Poland by a Belarus dictator, family groups are in fact rebuffed at the country’s border and ping-pong between territories, invariably ending up in a forest with almost no supplies and dwindling hope. 

Just as the heroes of “Kanal” have no way of knowing what’s happening above them and just where they’ll find safety, these poor folks are in a state of private suspended animation. What happens over the course of two and a half hours of gorgeously shot and acutely edited black-and-white is suspenseful, sometimes excruciatingly so. Throughout, you feel the filmmaker’s indignant exasperation with her country’s government and some of her fellow citizens. Which makes the movie’s ending, which actually holds out some concrete hope for the situation, a bit surprising and monumentally moving. – Glenn Kenny

“ Hit Man ”

It probably shouldn’t come as a surprise to hear that Richard Linklater ’s latest, loosely inspired by the true story of a college professor moonlighting for the police as a fake assassin for sting operations, is a winner. But even his biggest fans may be startled by how good this one is. Taking a premise that might have been deployed for a mid-level Adam Sandler project, he gives us something smart, crafty, thought-provoking, seriously sexy (thanks to the off-the-charts chemistry between co-stars Glen Powell and Adria Arjuna), and always surprising. (The already-celebrated sequence involving the clever usage of the iPhone Notes app moves so brilliantly between suspense and humor that I now want to see Linklater tackle a full-on Hitchcock-style project at some point.)

The only drawback is that since there is allegedly no market for the kind of mid-budget, adult-oriented, non-IP filmmaking that used to flourish once upon a time (it is probably the closest to something like “ Bull Durham ” that we are likely to see anytime soon), a film that would clearly play like gangbusters in a theater with a big and appreciative crowd has been instead relegated to Netflix. That said, the film’s charms are so pervasive that not even the scaled-down dimensions of the typical home viewing experience can keep them down. – Peter Sobczynski

“ How to Have Sex ”

When I first saw British writer/director Molly Manning Walker’s debut feature film “How To Have Sex,” I was unprepared for the visceral reaction the film would evoke. From several interviews the filmmaker has given about how many audience members had similar responses, neither did the filmmaker. Inspired by Walker’s own experience with sexual assault, the film taps into feelings of unease around first-time sexual experiences that, due to a variety of factors, are tainted by trauma, feelings that have, unfortunately, proven to be universal for a lot of young women.

Breakout star Mia McKenna-Bruce gives a revelatory performance as Tara, a firecracker of a young woman who is determined to lose her virginity while on a post-graduation holiday in Crete with her best friends Skye ( Lara Peake ) and Em ( Enva Lewis ). Petty jealousies and insecurities arise between the girls as the booze flows, and flirtations abound when the group befriends the neighboring boys at their resort, including the soulful Badger ( Shaun Thomas ) and the boisterous Paddy ( Samuel Bottomley ).

As the weekend progresses, pressures mount, feelings are hurt, and lines of consent are crossed. Walker worked in lockstep with cinematographer Nicolas Canniccioni to root the film in Tara’s perspective, which, along with McKenna-Bruce’s expressive eyes, forces the audience to feel as though they’re going through the same rollercoaster of confusing emotions as she does. The film leaves us, and Tara, in a bit of a daze but offers a ray of hope through its staunch belief in the restorative power of female friendships and the resilience that lives deep inside all of us. – Marya E. Gates

“ I Saw the TV Glow ”

The malevolence of Mr. Melancholy, the moon-faced antagonist in “The Pink Opaque,” a TV show that entrances ostracized teens Owen ( Justice Smith ) and Maddie ( Brigette Lundy-Paine ), resides in his power to blur the truth and rid his adversaries of their inner strength. Mr. Melancholy, a final boss in this monster-of-the-week realm, embodies the inner turmoil that plagues characters in Jane Schoenbrun ’s neon-coated, musically rich, ‘90s-set masterpiece. This unequivocally trans allegory contends with the suffocating artificiality of suburban life, of the soul-corroding fake smiles in spaces where a façade of normalcy is cultivated at the expense of those who don’t fit within its rigid archetypes. In trying to mold himself to his environment, Owen betrays himself. There’s a lifeline in the episodes Maddie records onto VHS tapes for him, but eventually, living vicariously through fiction won’t suffice.

Much has been said about whether the final moments in “I Saw the TV Glow” read bleak, even if Schoenbrun believes them to be hopeful in a “darkest before the dawn” manner. That hope is in the messages written in chalk on the street and not on those plastered on the walls of their high school, in the hope that a TV show can reveal something neither of them can yet speak into concrete words. It’s in the wish that the unbearable pain that tortures them can give way to a rebirth of the self.

One of the most audacious American works of the decade, in both style and substance, Schoenbrun’s latest at once breaks new ground and reaches for timelessness as a cinematic text to be dissected for years to come. – Carlos Aguilar

“ In a Violent Nature ”

At a lethargic but resolute pace, Johnny ( Ry Barrett ), once human but now zombie-like, trudges through a dense Canadian forest with the sole purpose of massacring the young people who desecrated his “resting place.” Those long stretches of contemplative wandering, with the camera following from behind, precede the inventive kills in Chris Nash ’s effective subversion of slasher film tropes. Rather than spending time with the victims before their final moments, we patiently witness the killer’s trajectory from one murder scene to the next. Only the sounds of nature accompany Johnny’s stride. These choices force the audience into a new dynamic, one still ripe with tension, but also space to ponder our relationship to these types of horror tales. Are we willing to find justification for Johnny’s acts now that see him as a protagonist with a clear goal as a result of an offense? Or is that us projecting our need for logic onto a character that acts on instinct?

For all its deviations from similar narratives, “In a Violent Nature” is not without thrills. Nash conjures up unthinkable, gasp-inducing ways for Johnny to disremember bodies, a significant feat in a subgenre where one could assume every modality of carnage has already been put on screen. And just when one thinks that the reinvention has given way to a more traditional resolution, the final sequence further toys with what we’ve come to expect from the journey of the final girl and brilliantly denies us the ultimate catharsis. – Carlos Aguilar

“ Inside Out 2 ”

I cried and laughed within the first ten minutes of “Inside Out 2,” an adorable, heartwarming and fully up-to-the-original sequel to the beloved story of Riley and her middle school emotions. In addition to the colorful, endearing characters and witty screenplay of the first film, there is the kind of reassuring insight it could take years of therapy to discover. What they learn, so we do, too, is that what may feel like disturbing or negative emotions are necessary to keep us safe and help us understand the world around us.

Writers Kelsey Mann , Meg LeFauve , and Dave Holstein worked closely with developmental psychology experts and even more important experts, teenage girls, to ensure they understood the role that anxiety, envy, embarrassment, and ennui/boredom play in adolescence. But the brilliance of making these abstract and subjective emotions real and palpable is all Pixar at its best. As a former snarky teenager, I especially appreciated how sarcasm, a hallmark of that age, was visualized as a real chasm, with characters on one side trying to communicate genuine compliments that transmit as derision as they cross the divide. Anxiety, portrayed with endearingly positive energy by Maya Hawke , arrives weighed down by her baggage. Memory, buried secrets, beliefs, sense of self are all brilliantly imagined. The emotion characters zoom in on Riley’s friends’ faces to decipher their expressions, the kinds of details a younger person could overlook. I look forward to laughing and crying through it again. – Nell Minow

“ Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell ”

I have watched many films since this time last year, when, at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, a film so startling in its visual assuredness, bearing a deep sense of longing and regret, froze me where I sat. It is a ruminative piece that, coincidentally, travels beyond the body into dreams and memories. It begins when Thiện (Lê Phong Vũ) witnesses the death of his sister-in-law in a motorcycle crash that renders her son Doa (Nguyễn Thịnh) the lone survivor. Thiện ventures back to his tiny village with Dao and her body, ostensibly to bury her, but in reality to search for his long-lost brother. 

The director of this film crafts a three-hour journey that reopens the scars of war and ignites love’s angst and the ecstasy of religion, enveloping the viewer in a sonorous jungle where very little light seems to enter. The camera moves through this meditative space with the style of Michelangelo Antonioni and the observationalism of Robert Bresson until it lands, with Thien, peacefully in a stream. A frightening unguardedness was required to make this picture, the kind that overwhelmed me. Since KVIFF, my world has spun again. And I have watched many films. But none have affected me like Pham Thien An ’s spiritual feature debut: “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell.” – Robert Daniels

“ Love Lies Bleeding ”

A woman’s strength depicted in cinema is often in reference to resilience, care, and perseverance: the force of their spirits. Rose Glass leaves no room for interpretation in “Love Lies Bleeding” when she demands we bear witness to the brawn of women in all its sexy consequence and delicious chaos.

Lou ( Kristen Stewart ) is a keep-to-her-self gym manager in the kind of town you only pass through, and this is exactly what bodybuilder Jackie (Katy O’Brien) is doing. Fueled by ambition to win a bodybuilding competition in Vegas, Jackie stops through to sleep, train, and make a little money to help her on her way. When they encounter each other at the gym, a meet-cute by the weights evolves into a feverish, hair-trigger love affair that collides with the criminal underworld by way of Lou’s father ( Ed Harris ). With his menacing criminal calm bashing heads against Jackie’s roid rage and Lou’s anxious and sporadic decision-making, “Love Lies Bleeding” is an action-packed fever dream with all the markers of a cult classic noir, money, sex, and violence, done the Rose Glass way.

The film pulses with her signature grittiness as it picks apart the feeling of love and infatuation with burst veins of blood and pulp. O’Brian is a showstopper in her breakthrough role, reinventing the femme fatale not as a seductively sinister master manipulator but as the juiced up, She-Hulk defender of true love. Stewart, proving again to be one of her generation’s most versatile, compelling actresses, invites her comedic chops to play into the story’s desperation. As the film’s grounding heart between Harris’s psychopathy and O’Brien’s bouts of psychosis, Lou simply wishes for comfortable love with Jackie, for her abused sister ( Jena Malone ), and for herself as she looks for closure in her mother’s death. “Love Lies Bleeding” juggles a lot thematically but does so with seamless expertise and exalting gnarly action. Though you can feel nods to road films like “Thelma & Louise” or high stakes impacts between drifters, love, and crime like “ True Romance ,” Rose Glass has crafted a film all her own, unlike anything I’ve seen before, and one that will certainly earn cult classic status. – Peyton Robinson

“The People’s Joker”

The words “singular” and “visionary” are probably used to describe films and filmmakers more often than is warranted, but if any film this year deserves those monikers, it would be writer-director-editor-star Vera Drew’s fair-use superhero parody “ The People's Joker .” After several years of playing film festivals and a prolonged legal battle with the keepers of I.P., Drew’s autobiographical phantasmagoric coming-of-age odyssey finally hit theaters this spring.

Drew plays the titular Joker, aka Joker the Harlequin, aka Vera, a trans woman and aspiring clown who has been grappling with her gender identity and depression since her childhood despite being prescribed Smylex, a drug that forces you to put on a happy face. After moving from Smallville, Kansas, to Gotham City to pursue her dream of joining the cast of UCB Live (an SNL-like sketch comedy show), she instead forms an anti-comedy troupe with a friend, battles a bad romance with an emotionally abusive trans Marxist Joker, and eventually faces off with the caped crusader himself.

Made on a micro-budget, Drew crowdsourced more than 100 artists from around the world to help develop the film’s many memorable backdrops and unforgettable animated sequences. The result gives the film a handmade feel that harkens back to the D.I.Y. films of the 1990s. Drew also proves that, given absolute creative freedom, a film based on I.P. can tell a truly personal story with universal themes in a unique and uncompromising way. – Marya E. Gates

“ Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus”

Why aren’t there awards for the best on-camera actors in documentaries? “Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus,” a lyrical, transporting black-and-white concert documentary, showcases the most captivating performance of the year. Sakamoto, the synth pioneer and acclaimed movie composer, performs 20 songs that span his celebrated career. The setlist not only stands out for its range but for its seamless progression, flowing from an early Yellow Magic Orchestra piece (“Tong Poo”) to music from Peter Kominsky’s 1992 “ Wuthering Heights ” adaptation.

Sakamoto, who had been fighting cancer for about a decade, delivers an indelible performance that only resonates partly given his recent passing. “Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus” was not designed to be a final movie any more than his other retrospective projects, like the similarly arranged “Playing the Piano 12122020” (2021) or “1996.”

Instead, “Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus” stands out, given the rapt attention that director Neo Sora , Sakamoto’s son, pays to Sakamoto’s performance. Slight winces at imperfect playing—if only in Sakamoto’s eyes—compliment and deepen one’s appreciation for what might have otherwise sounded like a dynamic, smooth-sounding recording.

An improvised passage in “Bibo No Aozora” compliments and enhances one’s appreciation for the relative simplicity of the next song Sakamoto plays, “Aqua,” a 1998 piece whose popularity contrasts with the theme for “ Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence ,” a standard that Sakamoto had previously fallen out of love with. “Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus” shouldn’t be pigeonholed as a final testament but celebrated as an uncanny expression of Sakamoto’s musical project. – Simon Abrams

If you’re lucky, you spent your childhood thinking your grandmother was a superhero. First-time filmmaker Josh Margolin evidently thought so, too, so he spun his real-life relationship with his grandma into “Thelma,” a wry, poignant action comedy that gives a ninetysomething June Squibb the chance to play at being Ethan Hunt. A phishing scam sends Thelma on a quest to retrieve her money and, in some ways, a sense of late-in-life autonomy; with the aid of fellow widower Ben ( Richard Roundtree , in a gentle final role) and his trusty scooter, she aims to do just that. Squibb cracks wise as easily as Thelma cracks her hips with each suspenseful bed roll, and Margolin delights in deploying the swirling camerawork and thumping scoring of action films to lend each hunt-and-pecked password all the tension of disarming a nuclear bomb.

More than that, all this scrappy energy serves a universal story about everyone’s fear of aging beyond their ability. “I never planned on getting this old,” Thelma tells her grandson (a delightful Fred Hechinger ); the two, regardless of age, bristle against feelings of obsolescence. But Squibb and Margolin ably prove that there’s still life in the old girl in one of the year’s most delightful surprises. – Clint Worthington

“ We Grown Now ”

Chicagoan Minhal Baig ’s coming-of-age film is like an emotional time machine. Plenty of filmmakers are adept at recreating period detail, but they often lose the human element by focusing so much on production design, costumes, and needle drops. “We Grown Now” hums with feeling instead of the cold, calculated precision that has derailed so many similar efforts. There’s heart, empathy, and depth of feeling in this film that has allowed it to linger. It plays so much like a heartfelt memory that’s where it stays for people who see it: in their hearts.

Sure, an important story is being told in “We Grown Now” about growing up and how adulthood can divide us, but the small, tender beats hold it together. It’s the way the light casts itself across a dinner table in a room in Cabrini-Green, the look in a mother’s eyes when she knows her son is being forced to grow up too soon, how the laughter of a child seems to echo in a different way. Baig’s film is a reminder that even a form as overdone as the coming-of-age drama can be powerful as long as it seeks truth instead of cliché. – Brian Tallerico

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

Tim Burton reteams with Michael Keaton to return to one of his early iconic characters in this sequel to 1988’s Beetlejuice . Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara are also both on board to reprise their characters Lydia and Delia Deetz, while Jenna Ortega joins the cast as Lydia’s daughter.

Speak No Evil (2024)

James McAvoy and Mackenzie Davis star in this remake of the 2022 Danish psychological thriller about a married couple with kids who meet another family on vacation, accept an invitation to visit their home later, and begin to sense increasingly undertones lurking behind the hospitality of their hosts. The film is directed by James Watkins, who gave us the similarly disturbing  Eden Lake , as well as  The Woman in Black and one of the darker episodes of  Black Mirror , “Shut Up and Dance.”

His Three Daughters (2023)

Indie hitmaker Azazel Jacobs, known for his work in The Lovers and French Exit , is bringing a family drama to Netflix’s fall lineup. His Three Daughters finds Natasha Lyonne, Carrie Coon, and Elizabeth Olsen as estranged siblings who meet again to care for their ill father. After a critically acclaimed Toronto International Film Festival premiere in 2023, the film was acquired by Netflix and is anticipated to be a top prize contender for the streaming giant when awards season approaches.

Transformers One (2024)

The Transformers franchise returns to its roots with an animated prequel that explores the origins of the titular robots’ home world of Cybertron and the rivalry between Optimus Prime and Megatron. It will be separate from the ongoing narrative of the live-action films, and it will be helmed by  Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley, with Chris Hemsworth as the voice of Optimus Prime and Brian Tyree Henry as Megatron.

Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)

Director Todd Phillips helms this follow-up to the wildly successful R-rated take on the iconic Batman villain that earned Joaquin Phoenix the Oscar for Best Actor. In Folie à Deux , Phoenix will be joined by Lady Gaga, who is playing his love interest (it’s complicated) Harley Quinn, and the film will reportedly be a musical. Yes, you read that right.

Terrifier 3 (2024)

We don’t know much about the third installment of the cult favorite horror franchise Terrifier , but we do know that David Howard Thornton will return to play Art the Clown and that the film will be set on Christmas Eve. The budget is also reportedly much larger than the previous two films, so fans can look forward to upgraded production value.

Venom: The Last Dance (2024)

Tom Hardy returns for this third installment of the Spider-Man-adjacent antihero franchise, centering on a San Francisco reporter possessed by an alien symbiote. Writer Kelly Marcel steps in behind the camera for this one, whose plot we really don’t know much about yet.

Gladiator II (2024)

Ridley Scott returns to direct this sequel to the historical epic Gladiator . The story will reportedly revolve around a grown-up Lucius (played by Paul Mescal), who has become emperor, and will see the return of Connie Nielsen as Lucilla.

Wicked (2024)

The legendary Broadway musical that tells the tale of the Wicked Witch of the West from a different perspective is getting a two-part film adaptation. Director Jon M. Chu ( Crazy Rich Asians ,  In the Heights ) will take audiences to Oz, while Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande will play Elphaba and Glinda, respectively.

Moana 2 (2024)

Disney made an unexpected announcement in February that a sequel to their hit 2016 animated film Moana , featuring the voices of Auli’i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson, would be releasing in theaters in November. The announcement gave us the name of the director, Dave Derrick Jr., who previously worked on films like How to Train Your Dragon , Megamind , and other Disney projects like  Raya and the Last Dragon , Encanto , and of course the first  Moana , and while no cast has been officially announced yet, we can expect Cravalho and Johnson to return as Moana and Maui.

Kraven the Hunter (2024)

Originally set to appear sometime in the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man franchise before it was discontinued by Sony, the classic Spidey villain finally makes the jump to the big screen. The film will be directed by J.C. Chandor ( All Is Lost ,  Triple Frontier ), with Aaron Taylor-Johnson (who portrayed Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver in  Avengers: Age of Ultron ) set to play the character.

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024)

Warner Bros. latest film in the  Lord of the Rings universe is this animated prequel that follows the exploits of Helm Hammerhand, the legendary king of Rohan, home of the horsemen known as the Rohirrim that played a big part in  The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers . Brian Cox will lend his voice to the central character, who reigned 183 years before the events of  The Two Towers , while the latter film’s Miranda Otto reprises her role as Eowyn, who will serve as a framing device for the story.

Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)

The “live-action” Lion King (which was 100 percent computer-generated and not actually live action, to be clear) is getting a prequel that will explore the backstory of Simba’s father, Mufasa. James Earl Jones, who voiced Mufasa in the original Lion King and the remake, will not voice this younger version of Mufasa, and instead Aaron Pierre will play the character. Kelvin Harrison Jr. will play Scar, who goes by Taka when the events of the film take place.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024)

The Sonic the Hedgehog film franchise is speeding right along with a third installment that will presumably bring back Ben Schwartz as Sonic, Colleen O’Shaughnessey as Tails, and Idris Elba as Knuckles. Jim Carrey, who played the villainous Dr. Robotnik in the first two movies, might sit this one out as he’s been talking about retiring from acting. But, there will be at least one foe giving Sonic a run for his money, as Sonic 2 teased a new villain, Shadow the Hedgehog, in its post-credits scene.

Nosferatu (2024)

Robert Eggers ( The Witch , The Lighthouse ) follows up his action epic The Northman with a passion project he’s been working on for years. This remake of the classic 1922 vampire film of the same name looks to follow a similar plot, centering on a young woman (Lily-Rose Depp) and the vampire (Bill Skarsgård) who is infatuated with her.

A Complete Unknown (2025)

An early 1960s New York is the setting for James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown. Detailing the true story of music legend Bob Dylan, the film will follow a 19-year-old Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) from his beginnings in Minnesota to his arrival and eventual success in New York. Written by Mangold and Jay Vocks and co-starring Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, and Boyd Holbrook, A Complete Unknown will be released in theaters nationwide on December 25, 2024.

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The 10 Best Michael Keaton Movies You Have to See Before “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice”

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Michael Keaton has had a seriously impressive career to date. Having played vigilante superheroes, newspaper editors, failing actors, and even a Ken doll, it seems as though his talent is pretty much limitless. An Oscar nominee and an Emmy and Golden Globe winner, Keaton’s acting career has spanned many decades, and he shows no signs of stopping anytime soon. Discussing his take on playing comic book icon Batman, Keaton told GQ in 2024, “I’m nothing but only respectful and grateful, 100%... And proud of it, actually, because I like to prove everybody wrong. It’s fun for me.”

Known for comedic and dramatic roles, Keaton returns to our screens in 2024 in Tim Burton ’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice alongside Winona Ryder and Jenna Ortega . The buzzy sequel was almost four decades in the making, and fans are rightfully excited to see Keaton return in the titular role. Here, we round up 10 of Michael Keaton’s best movies, from impressive biopics and supernatural blockbusters to thought-provoking true stories and Shakespearean comedies .

“The Founder” (2016)

Michael Keaton stars in this slick biopic about Ray Kroc, the man responsible for turning McDonalds into a global enterprise. Having failed at every business he ever started, Kroc sees unmatched potential in a speedy burger bar run by the McDonald brothers. As Kroc tries to take the business global, he quickly meets resistance, but it isn’t long until he quickly outpaces his new business partners altogether. The incredible cast includes Laura Dern , Nick Offerman, and John Carroll Lynch.

“Birdman (Or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” (2014)

Michael Keaton was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman . The film follows Riggan (Keaton), a former onscreen superhero trying to save his flailing career as an aging actor. Unfortunately, Riggan’s big Broadway comeback is threatened right before opening night, putting his once fruitful career in perilous jeopardy. From familial conflicts to unruly costars, Riggan has his work cut out for him, as he considers his future in the industry and the world.

“Spotlight” (2015)

Winner of Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars, Spotlight draws inspiration from The Boston Globe’s real investigative journalism team. Loosely based on a true story, Spotlight explores how a team of journalists exposed the decades-long cover-up of a shocking child sex abuse scandal within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.

Both harrowing and crucial, Spotlight highlights the importance of good journalism, especially when holding large organizations and corporations, religious or otherwise, accountable for their behavior. Co-starring Rachel McAdams and Mark Ruffalo .

“Beetlejuice” (1988)

Directed by auteur Tim Burton, Beetlejuice follows the Deetz family as they move into a new house with their daughter Lydia (Winona Ryder), only to be haunted by its former residents. As the poltergeists attempt to evict the new tenants, they summon Betelgeuse (Michael Keaton), an offensive “bio-exorcist” meant to scare the Deetzes away, but plans go awry. A cult classic, Beetlejuice has already been turned into a musical, and a long-awaited sequel hits the screen in 2024, 36 years after the original came out.

“Much Ado About Nothing” (1993)

Kenneth Branagh ’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s classic play , Much Ado About Nothing , was a critical and financial success. The 1993 movie follows Hero ( Kate Beckinsale ) and Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard), a couple who decide to play matchmakers ahead of their own nuptials.

With the help of Don Pedro ( Denzel Washington ), they set up Benedick (Branagh) and Beatrice (Emma Thompson), a bickering pair who claim to hate one another, which turns out to be far from the truth. Keaton steals the show as Dogberry, a buffoon who hilariously leads the citizen-police.

“Jackie Brown” (1997)

Quentin Tarantino’s homage to 1970s blaxploitation movies follows flight attendant Jackie Brown (Pam Grier), who gets caught smuggling money between Mexico and the United States. Agent Ray Nicolette (Michael Keaton) attempts to force Jackie into becoming an informant, to help catch an elusive crime kingpin. Based on Elmore Leonard’s novel Rum Punch , Jackie Brown is a twisty crime flick with an astounding ensemble cast; Samuel L. Jackson , Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, and Robert De Niro star alongside Grier and Keaton.

“Batman Returns” (1992)

Michael Keaton returned as the unforgettable caped crusader in 1992’s Batman Returns . Directed by Tim Burton, the successful sequel saw Batman face up to his iconic adversaries, The Penguin ( Danny Devito ) and Catwoman ( Michelle Pfeiffer ). Keaton would later reprise his role within the DC universe in 2023’s The Flash , but Batman Returns marks his last solo outing as debonair playboy, Bruce Wayne. While many actors have taken on the legendary role since, Keaton remains a fan favorite for many Batman aficionados.

“Worth” (2020)

Based on the non-fiction book What Is Life Worth?: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11 , Keaton plays Kenneth Feinberg, the lawyer who was in charge of distributing the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund to families affected by the devastating tragedy. The emotive movie co-stars Amy Ryan, Stanley Tucci, and Tate Donovan, and attempts to give a voice to everyone who was affected by the horrifying terrorist attack, while demonstrating the impossibility of applying financial worth to a human life.

“Toy Story 3” (2010)

The third Toy Story movie follows Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy’s toys after they’re donated to a daycare center by mistake. In their new home, the gang must try to fit in with the existing toy hierarchy, while trying to avoid danger at the hands of strange young children.

Michael Keaton makes a scene-stealing appearance as a camp Ken doll conspiring with antagonist Lots-O’-Huggin’ Bear. The popular flick grossed more than $1 billion followed by 2019’s Toy Story 4 , with a new installment on the way in 2026 .

“The Paper” (1994)

Directed by Ron Howard , The Paper documents the mania of one super busy day in a breaking newsroom. Michael Keaton plays newspaper editor Henry Hackett, who is in desperate pursuit of a story. Meanwhile, Hackett’s colleagues and superiors continue to cause him trouble, while he wrestles with his personal life at the same time.

Co-starring Glenn Close , Marisa Tomei, Randy Quaid, and Robert Duvall, it’s truly hard to believe The Paper was released 30 years ago.

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