Variety’s chief film critics have found much to love: studio knockouts, independent standouts, international gems, documentary landmarks, underground breakouts.
Here are our picks for the 10 best movies of 2024 so far. It’s scarier than any horror film. It’s scarier than any other contemporary political documentary.
And it’s scary because it’s all happening, which is why you need to see it. Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones’s epochal exposé is about how the forces of Christian nationalism have become far more powerful than most people realize in their crusade to transform America into a theocracy. (The vacation-home flag choices of Supreme Court Justice Samuel A.
Alito Jr. are a tip of the iceberg.) This is exactly the kind of totalitarian political/cultural movement that the American system was built by the Founders to repel.
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