As 2025 continued shaping itself as one of the most emotionally rich and formally daring years for cinema, it became clear that the films weren’t just competing for spectacle anymore; they were ...

Let's just say it: 2025 was a really good year for movies. Not all of them are. Sometimes compiling a Top 10 list is a chore. There are always a couple of great movies, a handful of good ones and then ...

Thanks to daylight savings time, the sun now goes down before 5 p.m. and that darkness might be weighing on you. To counter it, may we suggest some feel-good films? Sometimes you just need to watch a ...

Our film critics rank their 10 favorites of the year. By Manohla Dargis and Alissa Wilkinson Manohla Dargis It was another great year for the movies and another horrible, hair-on-fire year for the ...

Writing from the Chicagoland area in Illinois, Robert is an avid movie watcher and will take just about any excuse to find time to go to his local movie theaters. Robert graduated from Bradley ...

As we move deeper into the best films of 2025, the conversation shifts from spectacle to substance. This part of the list highlights movies that linger long after the credits roll, films that trust ...

The A.V. Club is Paste Magazine‘s source for TV and film coverage. The best films of 2025 emerged from a landscape as politically volatile and competitively lopsided as the darkest days in Hollywood ...

2025 was a year that posed a lot of questions for movie lovers: Did the success of Sinners prove that there was still a mass audience hungry for original (read: non-IP) stories on a blockbuster level?

The year in moviegoing can, perhaps, be summed up by one fact: “Sinners” is the only film in the Top 10 list of highest-grossing movies in the United States that isn’t based on existing IP and isn’t a ...