© 2025

In touch with the world ... at home on the High Plains

Donate

Play Live Radio

Next Up:

0:00

0:00

0:00 0:00

Available On Air Stations

KJJP 105.7 FM in Amarillo is currently operating with a back-up transmitter at just 5% power and limited signal coverage due to cold weather related problems. Engineers are working on restoring KJJP to full power. We apologize for this limitation of service. To listen to either HPPR Mix or HPPR Connect please use the streaming player above or the HPPR mobile app, including special Inauguration and MLK Day programing on Monday.

The best movies and TV of 2024, picked for you by NPR critics

NPR

By Eric Deggans,

Aisha Harris, Linda Holmes, Bob Mondello, Glen Weldon

Published December 10, 2024 at 6:00 AM CST

Clockwise from top left: A Man on the Inside, Hacks, Challengers, Flow, Nickel Boys, Shōgun. — Clockwise from top left: A Man on the Inside, Hacks, Challengers, Flow, Nickel Boys, Shōgun.

Whether you plan to head out to the theater or binge from the couch, our critics have gathered together their favorite films and TV shows of 2024. You can search by genre and where you can see it. Have at it!

Copyright 2024 NPR

Loading...

Tags

NPR Top Stories

Eric Deggans

Eric Deggans is NPR's first full-time TV critic.

See stories by Eric Deggans

Aisha Harris

Aisha Harris is a host of Pop Culture Happy Hour.

See stories by Aisha Harris

Linda Holmes

Linda Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for NPR and the host of Pop Culture Happy Hour. She began her professional life as an attorney. In time, however, her affection for writing, popular culture, and the online universe eclipsed her legal ambitions. She shoved her law degree in the back of the closet, gave its living room space to DVD sets of The Wire, and never looked back.

See stories by Linda Holmes

Bob Mondello

Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.

See stories by Bob Mondello

Glen Weldon

Glen Weldon is a host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast. He reviews books, movies, comics and more for the NPR Arts Desk.

See stories by Glen Weldon

RFK Jr. plans to keep a financial stake in lawsuits against the drugmaker Merck

Sydney Lupkin

RFK Jr. plans to keep collecting referral fees in lawsuits against the drug company Merck even if confirmed as HHS secretary, according to new filings with the Office of Government Ethics.
Bishop Mariann Budde tells NPR 'I won't apologize' for sermon addressing Trump

Alana Wise

The Episcopal bishop of Washington spoke with NPR to discuss her sermon addressing President Trump and why she asked him to have mercy.
They made a post-apocalyptic Sundance film. Then their homes burned

Mandalit del Barco

The zombie apocalypse film Didn't Die was made amid the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic and upheaval in Hollywood. The filmmakers lost their homes – but are still sharing their movie at Sundance.
Congress clears GOP-led immigration enforcement bill, with Democrats on board

Ximena Bustillo

The Laken Riley Act would make it easier for federal immigration officials to detain and deport those without legal status who are charged with specific crimes.
DOJ threatens to prosecute local officials for resisting immigration enforcement

Joel Rose

In a new memo, a Justice Department official seeks to realign the department's positions on immigration with President Trump's executive actions — and threatens local officials who don't cooperate.