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 ...

The best films of 2025 emerged from a landscape as politically volatile and competitively lopsided as the darkest days in Hollywood history. This climate of consolidation and capitulation gave a ...

The state of digital media may be more volatile than the film world, but that only makes it more heartening that The A.V. Club‘s regular film critics are back in full force for another year of ...

Still from Peter Hujar's Day (2025), dir. by Ira Sachs (image courtesy Janus Films) A day in the life of Peter Hujar, a bungled museum heist, Meredith Monk's 60-year career — these subjects brought to ...

For our most comprehensive year-end feature, we’re providing a cumulative look at The Film Stage’s favorite films of 2025. We’ve asked contributors to compile ten-best lists with five honorable ...

Anyone will tell you that these are tumultuous, borderline-apocalyptic times for the film industry. Box office is down. The threat of AI looms. Billionaires and tech giants are laying waste to what ...

The results are now in for our 2025 poll of Film Comment’s contributors! On this page, you’ll find our list of the 20 best films that were released either theatrically or virtually in 2025 in the ...

It’s easy to admit that 2025 has been a bit of a confusing year for movie fans. Was it the year the superhero film finally stumbled (“Superman” was fun, but hardly the sea change we were looking for, ...

It seems like it’s going to be one award after another this season for Paul Thomas Anderson. Warner Bros’ action epic “One Battle After Another” was named the best film of the year by the New York ...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” was named the best film of 2025 by the New York Film Critics Circle, which announced its annual awards on Tuesday. While the film went into the ...

Critics have the run of awards season right now. On December 1, the Gotham Awards gave One Battle After Another and It Was Just an Accident its highest honors, and just one day later, it’s time for ...

Movies with artist-protagonists are known to be disappointing. These pass muster and even inspire. Film Class Movies with artist-protagonists are known to be disappointing. These pass muster and even ...