From Australian-made gore to sugar-rush animation, here are the films that had our critics seated and watching this year.

Ari Aster's Eddington, in which Joaquin Phoenix's conspiracist sheriff and Pedro Pascal's tech-friendly centrist lock horns in an election, lays bare the deep divisions in the American psyche. The ...

This year's best movies were wildly inventive, endlessly entertaining, and confronted modern American culture head-on.

From 'The Ugly Stepsister' to 'Final Destination Bloodlines,' Dread Central's Ashliene McMenamy selects her top 10 horror ...

Austin Butler’s Caught Stealing was a commercial flop, but fans and critics loved its debut in August 2025. Now, it’s already ...

Twinless, Eddington, and Dangerous Animals are all among the most underrated (and perhaps the best) movies of 2025.

LOS ANGELES — A funny thing about this year’s best films: Half of them are adaptations. As a movie lover who’s always hunting for new talent, new ideas and new stimuli, I used to view that as creative ...

With only a few weeks and a handful of releases left to go on the 2025 movie schedule, we’re starting to see all kinds of end ...

In movies like “Eddington,” “Sinners,” “Wake Up Dead Man” and others, filmmakers have at last wrapped their heads around how ...

While 2025 witnessed many series and movies make a big impression, some flew under the radar and did not get the attention ...

One of the year’s funniest movies, co-writer, director and star Michael Angelo Covino’s sad sack rom-com is a hilarious study ...

From Anemone to A House of Dynamite to Roofman, these films had Academy Award aspirations going into the season, but have failed to gain traction.