John Waters ranks his top 10 films of 2025. Strand Releasing/Courtesy Everett Collection/Richard Foreman/A24/Courtesy Everett Collection/Warner Bros./Courtesy Everett Collection As a new year of films ...

As 2025 unfolded, returning to the ritual of asking filmmakers about the films that moved them feels both fragile and necessary. This exercise appears days after yet another grotesque display of ...

It wasn’t a banner year for the world’s most important film festival, but there were gems among the twenty-two films contending for the Palme d’Or. Last year’s Cannes Film Festival competition was the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. I’ve been lucky to see so many movies over the ...

For decades, horror films have brought to life our deepest fears, unsettling imaginations while pushing the boundaries of what cinema can achieve. Black-and-white monster classics relied on spooky ...