2024 in review: film
The year’s cinematic wonders include a movie about the last Jews in a Paris suburb and the best double act to grace the silver screen
Just how Jewish is Timothée Chalamet?
The American Oscar nominee is starring in two Jewish roles next year including a biopic of Bob Dylan
Rumours review: Cate Blanchett and Charles Dance in G7 satire
World leaders take on zombies and a giant brain in this genre-defying film
Film industry ‘institutionally antisemitic’ says BAFTA-nominated producer
Leo Pearlman spoke on a JC panel of experts, chaired by broadcaster Rob Rinder
Nightbitch review: ‘it’s a film for mums’
Bullied by a two-year-old’s tears, a woman’s fire extinguished in a pool of wee-wee and need, there is a kind of catharsis in this tale about the spirit-sapping reality of bringing up children
Wicked review: ‘it’s a Grande entrance’
Pop star Ariana Grande’s narcissistic Galinda turns spoilt vacuity into art
Wickedly Jewish! New musical is chock-a-block with talented Jewish stars
The Yellow Brick Road is paved with Jewish talent for one of this year’s biggest film releases
Social media outrage after Israeli Jew cast as Jesus’ mother in Netflix biblical epic
The film is facing boycott calls from people insisting ‘Jesus was Palestinian’
Gladiator II review: ‘a swashbuckler that slays expectations’
Ridley Scott’s sequel is not the Hollywood boot-filling exercise you might expect
The enduring appeal of Nora Ephron, and the golden age of rom-coms
A new book about the Jewish writer and director’s filmography brings nostalgia for the era of When Harry Met Sally style rom-coms
Anora review: ‘Romeo and Juliet with more sex and drugs’
This delve into the underbelly of Manhattan sex clubs and Brooklyn’s Russian émigré community has been compared to ‘Pretty Woman’, but it’s better than that
Midas Man review: ‘Epstein entrances in sympathetic biopic’
Jacob Fortune-Lloyd rehabilitates the young svengali’s reputation with charm in this film, but the Fab Four fall curiously flat
Venom review: ‘it’s not Marvel-lous’
This is the Last Dance of his three-deal franchise and I suspect Tom Hardy is feeling rather relieved
The man with the golden touch: Who was ‘the fifth Beatle’ Brian Epstein?
With release of new biopic about Jewish visionary who discovered the Beatles, the JC reflects on his short but triumphant life
Jewish culture in Britain is being silenced
The Chief Executive of UK Jewish Film says cinemas and venues are quietly blocking out his organisation
The Apprentice review: ‘What would Melania Trump say?’
The Trump portrayed here is no monster but it is a portrait of a hustler who is still hustling
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