15 best films of 2024 and where to find them for a holiday catch-up 

If you're looking for something to watch over Christmas and New Year, Esther McCarthy has suggestions from the highlights of 2024 

Hit Man, Poor Things and Small Things Like These featured among the best films of 2024.

Poor Things, Disney+

 In Yorgos Lanthimos’s wildly audacious Poor Things, Emma Stone leaves it all on the dance floor in one of her funniest and strangest performances. The feminist Frankenstein tale sees her play Bella, a woman reborn from tragedy, with no sense of the deferences and expectations in the society into which she returns. It won Stone a Best Actress Oscar.]