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Actor-turned-director Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” was named the best film of 2024 by the New York Film Critics Circle Tuesday afternoon. One of the nation’s oldest and most venerated critics’ groups, the NYFCC traditionally kicks the movie awards season into high gear.
The group, comprised of roughly 50 print and online movie reviewers based in the city, is frequently the first major critics’ group to announce its best-of choices for the year. Their winners are chosen via ballot, and on a category-by-category basis.
“The Brutalist,” a three-and-a-half-hour period piece, was also cited for Adrian Brody’s central performance. Meanwhile, Marianne Jean-Baptiste was named the year’s best actress for “Hard Truths,” her reunion with British director Mike Leigh. She was previously nominated for an Oscar for her role in Leigh’s “Secrets & Lies.”
The best director prize went to RaMell Ross for his adaptation of author Colson Whitehead’s 2019 novel “Nickel Boys.”
The group selected as its best non-fiction film winner “No Other Land,” an Israel-Palestinian collaboration directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor. Longtime film critic J. Hoberman recently called it the year’s best film in Artforum, describing it as an “explication of forced expulsion on the occupied West Bank made mostly on amateur digital video” about the “two-decade legal battle over the fate of an agrarian area with some twenty Palestinian villages.
