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The best movies of 2025
While mulling over the Herculean task of choosing the best movies of 2025, my mind kept returning to another massive project I helmed this year: Boston.com's Massachusetts Movie Madness, a month-long bracket-style competition to choose the ultimate…
Laura Dern Reflects on a Year of Personal Grief, Industry Anxiety and Great Movies
This year, when Laura Dern started shooting Is This Thing On?, she noticed her dynamic with director Bradley Cooper echoing her work with David Lynch, who'd cast Dern in her breakout Blue Velvet role nearly 40 years earlier. “People might…
The 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' Movie Is Skipping Theaters
There's been a rumbling in the world of The Last Airbender. Years after Paramount announced that Avatar would make the animated leap to the big screen with a new movie about Aang and his friends, that movie is now taking a step back for a streaming…
Steven Spielberg refused to make a movie with Ben Affleck
Steven Spielberg reportedly refused to make a movie with Batman star Ben Affleck because he made his son cry, according to screenwriter Mike Binder. Mike Binder has revealed how he wrote 2006' s Man About Town under the belief that Steven Spielberg…
Anime Movies Faced a Defining, Precarious Theatrical Crossroads in 2025
If the question of whether anime is mainstream was still on anyone's lips, 2025 emphatically etched the medium in stone as an emphatic hell yes. Still, despite the banner year anime has had in theaters, it's also been a year at an impasse about…
Timothée Chalamet's New Movie Is Part of a Trend I Can't Stand
In Slate's annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2025, Justin Chang, Alison Willmore, and Bilge Ebiri—about the year in cinema. I like to think of Movie Club as a safe space where we can let go of…
Tours to visit Christmas movie locations in US state prove huge hit
Christmas at Pemberley Manor and Romance at Reindeer Lodge may never make it to Oscar night, but legions of fans still love these sweet-yet-predictable holiday movies – and this season, many are making pilgrimages to where their favourite…
8 Unforgettable Movies Turning 50 in 2026
With the number of incredible movies made over the years, it can be easy to forget some of the classics. That isn't the case with the films on this list, however. Each of these movies, though released nearly 50 years ago, has left a lasting…
The Worst Reviewed Movies of 2025
I don't know if you've heard about this, but some good movies came out this year. Did you see Ryan Coogler's vampire epic, Sinners ? Or Guillermo del Toro's long-gestating passion project, Frankenstein ? Or the hilarious but also heartbreaking…
The biggest movie trend of 2025 could change Hollywood forever
Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle beat Superman, and more people in America cared about Chainsaw Man Movie — Reze Arc than Bruce Springsteen. 2025 will forever be remembered as the year anime shed its underdog status in Hollywood and proved…
'I've waited for this movie my whole life': Guardian readers' best films of 2025
I still can't get over Sinners. It's what the cinema was made for. It looked amazing; its sound was so rich and textured; and the juke joint dance sequence was a genuine WTF surprise that could have been grim but was utter genius. And if you…
The Movies That Made Us Think This Year
In 2025, as Foreign Policy expanded its film and television coverage, it seemed that the geopolitical turbulence of recent years finally made its way to the big screen. This year's popular titles felt more internationally minded than previous ones…
Marty Supreme' Rides a New Wave of Movie Merchandising
As Josh Safdie 's Marty Supreme approaches its Christmas Day release, the A24 -produced film is leaving behind a whirlwind of merch-focused activations that have resonated like no other title in recent years. On the surface, the initiative pales in…
The Best Cast Movies of 2025
The introduction of the Academy Award for “Best Casting” has a lot of people wondering: What the heck does that mean? The art of casting a motion picture goes beyond the accumulation of big above-the-line stars. It's the art of giving…
The Worst Movie of 2015 Is Streaming for Free
Johnny Depp has had a career full of ups and downs. Having been part of countless projects, both good and bad, his movies have accumulated over $10 billion in global box office gross, with much of this thanks to the enormous success of the Pirates…
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