From ‘Inside Out 2’ to ‘The Last Showgirl’ to ‘The Girl With the Needle,’ 2024 Films Tap Into Intergenerational Female Mentorship

Inspiring or irritating, empowering or exploitative, maternal or manipulative — with many shades of gray in between — female mentorship is a common dynamic in many of 2024’s most affecting stories. In films as diverse as “All We Imagine as Light,” “Babygirl,” “Emilia Pérez,” “The Girl With the Needle,” “Inside Out 2” “The Last Showgirl,” […]