Jio Studios’ Hindi-language Dhurandhar, starring Ranveer Singh, emerged as the highest-grossing film of 2025, with a gross ...

Horror films got a tremendous boost due in no small part to original ideas. Though sequels like Final Destination: Bloodlines and 28 Years Later made an impression, it was original films like Sinners, ...

We’ve come along way since “Scream 2” declared, with all the confidence of a stuck-up film student, that “sequels suck.” Once upon a time feature film follow-ups were, typically, cynical cash-grabs, ...

2025 was a critical year for the superhero movie genre. Once the undisputed dominant force in Hollywood, superhero movies are no longer quite the safe bet they used to be. Are moviegoers growing tired ...

You wouldn’t call 2025 an “off” year for horror — more like an odd one. Both A24 and Neon continued to back several scary-movie auteurs (the prolific Osgood Perkins, the brothers Danny and Michael ...

Movies are the great escape. “Optimistic endings, passionate romances,” sings the incarcerated dreamer of “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” who looks to old Hollywood movies as an oasis of beauty and faith.

I’m not going to lie: 2025 was not a year that’s easy to put a rosy spin on, even in the introductory blurb to a list of the year’s best movies. This has been a 12-month period of daily pummeling by ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X “I’ve always been somebody who’s been really struck by other people’s experiences in a really deep ...

It’s hard to look at the astounding box-office and critical success of Sinners and Weapons and say 2025 was not a great year for horror. And yet, here I am, bravely doing it anyway: 2025 was not a ...

Great cinema has never died, but there’s something particularly heartening about the fact that it survived 2025. Looking back at this turbulent year, rife with the usual industry concerns over the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A funny thing about this year’s best films: Half of them are adaptations. As a movie lover who’s always hunting ...