At the movies for 18 December 2024

Simon Morris looks back on 2024, a year initially damaged by writers' and actors' strikes in Hollywood, and still wondering what happened after Barbie and Oppenheimer changed the rules last year. This year was a bumper year for non-American films, for sequels and prequels, for horror films, and for some reason films about 1970s television! It was also a pretty good year for New Zealand films, low budget films and the best films from Pixar and Marvel in years. All this plus the hotly-contested Cate Blanchett They're In Everything award. No, Cate didn't make it this year.