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Richard Brody’s Best Movies of 2024 So Far
At the midway point of the year, the film critic discusses his top three pictures.
Richard Brody, a film critic, began writing for The New Yorker in 1999. He is the author of “Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard.”
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