Many people think the best VFX movies tend to be in the sci-fi or fantasy genres, but Robert Zemeckis's drama Here has some of the most interesting VFX of 2024. Most notably, AI was used to de-age Tom Hanks, but there were plenty of other examples of VFX, some of them very subtle.

For a list of some of the year’s biggest and best films — and a few hidden gems you might have missed — Jeffrey Brown talked with Mike Sergeant, host of the podcast Brown and Black and co-president of the Black Film Critics Circle,