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.

Nicole Kidman stars as a married CEO who’s into S&M. Harris Dickinson co-stars as her lover in this lukewarm throwback to the erotic thrillers of the 1980’s. Just in time for Christmas, folks ...