15 Best Breakout Movie Performances From 2024

To cite just a few, Adrien Brody revisited territory akin to his Oscar-winning role in The Pianist, pouring ecstasy and anguish into a Holocaust survivor in The Brutalist; Nicole Kidman continued to push herself in audacious new directions with a frank exploration of unconventional female desire in Babygirl; Demi Moore’s first-hand knowledge of the expiration date for women on camera no doubt fed her character’s gnawing desperation in The Substance; and Daniel Craig shook off the last vestiges of James Bond, bringing louche seductiveness but also lacerating pain to William S. Burroughs’ alter ego in Queer.

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