The Best Movies of 2024
variety.com(Click here to jump to Peter Debruge’s list.) Luca Guadagnino’s top-spinning marvel of a movie tells the tale of three pretty young tennis pros: their friendships, their rivalries, their love matches, their games.
It’s about everything that can happen between three people, but it’s not about anything more than that. It has no higher theme.
Yet it’s the most searching love triangle movie since “Jules and Jim,” as well as the most sweeping and sophisticated piece of cinematic storytelling I saw all year.
Guadagnino, in a bedazzling piece of directing, keeps the audience both immersed and off balance, tracing the karmic tension of romance and power as it plays out among his extraordinary actors: Mike Faist as the cool, diffident, upright Art, Josh O’Connor (in the best performance by a male actor this year) as the ardent bad boy Patrick, and Zendaya, asserting the raw magnetism of her chops in a way she never quite has on the big screen before, as the fierce and fearless Tashi, who comes between them.
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