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The films you should see in 2024 from Dune Part 2 to Mad Max: Furiosa and The Holdovers

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After months of the studios biting their nails, the writers' and actors' strikes don't seem to have ruined 2024 after all. Here are all the big movies you should look out for this year...

Poor Things 

Emma Stone gives a dazzling performance in Yorgos Lanthimos’s daring, deranged and deeply funny Frankenstein-flavoured comedy about a young woman’s unusual awakening.

January 12

Mean Girls: The Musical 

The film adaptation of the Broadway stage adaptation of the original film... you don't even need us to tell you any more about this, the title should have got you booking your tickets already. Oh, and the Broadway adaptation is coming to the West End later this year too.

January 17

The End We Start From

Jodie Comer’s magnificent lead performance elevates a simple, yet mostly effective, adaptation of Megan Hunter’s apocalyptic novel about a new mother surviving after an apocalyptic event.

January 19

The Book of Clarence

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