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The Daily Beast’s 10 Best Movies of 2024

CINEPHILIA

Dracula, a hit man, Tilda Swinton singing about the end of the world, and peak Ryan Gosling: Buckle up for our critic’s picks for the best 10 films he saw this year.

Nick Schager | Published Dec 23, 2024

Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton Plan a Suicide

THE BUMMER NEXT DOOR

The new film “The Room Next Door” is a rare misfire from filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar: clunky, wooden, and a tonal mishmash.

Nick Schager | Published Dec 19, 2024

He Made a Movie Musical About the End of the World

APOCALYPSE NOW

Director Joshua Oppenheimer breaks down the year’s wildest, most heartbreaking, and, it turns out, urgent musical: the Tilda Swinton-starring “The End.”

Nick Schager | Published Dec 05, 2024

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There’s a Tilda Swinton Musical About the End of the World

GENIUS

There’s nothing conventional about “The End,” a mad, apocalyptic musical masterpiece that is wowing film festival crowds.

Nick Schager | Published Sep 12, 2024

Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton Face a Beautiful Death

GORGEOUS

Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature is a tender two-hander between two Oscar-winners at the top of their acting game, holding hands as they contemplate the end.

Barry Levitt | Published Sep 02, 2024

Julio Torres and Tilda Swinton Spin Wackiness Into Beauty

PERFECT PAIR

Two maestros of strange profundity come together in “Problemista,” the quirky, yet touching new film from Torres that just had a raucous premiere at SXSW.

Coleman Spilde | Published Mar 14, 2023

‘The Eternal Daughter’: A Tale of Two Tilda Swintons

BEHIND THE MOVIE

Writer-director Joanna Hogg talks ghost stories, memoir films, and a particular stroke of genius: Why have Tilda Swinton play one role in a film, when she could play two?

Nick Schager | Published Nov 30, 2022

Two Tilda Swintons Are Twice as Haunting in This Ghost Story

BEWITCHING

“The Eternal Daughter” stars Swinton as both mom and daughter in a beautifully elegiac portrait of women in search of understanding—and the source of the strange noises upstairs.

Coleman Spilde | Published Oct 15, 2022

Viola! Tilda!: The Best Performances From This Year’s TIFF

OSCAR RACE

Viola Davis wowed (of course). Tilda Swinton stunned (of course). And Colin Farrell may be on his way to an Oscar (finally). Here’s our rundown of the 20 best actors at TIFF ’22.

Chris Feil | Published Sep 18, 2022

‘Fury Road’ Director’s Genie-in-a-Bottle Movie Is a Big Miss

ARDUOUS JOURNEY

‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ features Tilda Swinton as a British professor who awakens a bottled-up djinn (Idris Elba, part-CGI) and they gradually fall in love. It’s a mess.

Caspar Salmon | Published May 21, 2022

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