In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2024, Bilge Ebiri, K. Austin Collins, Alison Willmore, and Odie Henderson—about the year in cinema.

The movie feels like a cliché ... was always eager to make a film a little bit more different, and a little bit more difficult, than you might have been expecting.

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