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‘Project Hail Mary’ Brings Much-Needed Hope to Cinema Screens
‘Project Hail Mary’ couples Ryan Gosling’s charm with a sci-fi sense of wonder for a story about the value of connection, cooperation, and compassion.
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‘The Bride!’ a Stylish Swing that Stumbles in Storytelling
Is Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Bride!’ a stylish feminist remix on a classic horror character, or is it ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ by way of My Chemical Romance?
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The Best Movies of 2025
From vampires to aliens, from Tollywood to Hollywood, from indies to blockbusters, here are the best movies of 2025.
Featured Reviews
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‘Marty Supreme’ a Propulsive Story of Drive, Dreams, and Delusion
Timothée Chalamet delivers a captivating performance as a ping-pong player in relentless pursuit of greatness in Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme.
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‘One Battle After Another’ Funny, Frantic, and Fantastic
Make some room on your top 10 list because Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is a frantic, funny, and heartfelt father-daughter story that feels incredibly relevant in our current political climate.
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Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ Is the Best Film of 2025…So Far
Sinners is simultaneously a historical drama, a popcorn horror movie, and a musical, making it a unique film that delivers a truly enjoyable theatrical experience while also giving us storytelling with deeper themes and meaning.
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Black Widow lives in new trailer
The new trailer for Black Widow, the first film in phase four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is out now.
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‘Marriage Story’ gives an engaging, emotional look at divorce
Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson bring real-life emotion to divorce in Noah Baumbach’s ‘Marriage Story’.
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‘The Irishman’ struggles under the weight of its runtime
Take legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese and give him one of the strongest casts you could imagine—Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and even Joe Pesci—and ‘The Irishman’ has to be one of the best films of the year, right? Well, it’s complicated.
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Does ‘Joker’ have too much baggage to be a good film?
What if we viewed ‘Joker’ as just another R-rated comic book movie and not the cultural lightning rod the twitterverse and Warner Bros. marketing team want it to be?
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‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ a reunion that works
It’s hard to do a sequel 10 years and several Oscar nominations down the road from an original idea, but ‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ manages to give us something fun and entertaining, even when it’s not quite as great as the original.
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Zellweger brings ‘Judy’ to life
Renée Zellweger’s outstanding performance humanizes the tragedy of Judy Garland while the film narrowly dodges biopic tropes.
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Lindsay Ellis tackles Game of Thrones
We love Lindsay Ellis and her phenomenal video essays. Her insights are thoughtful, well-researched, incredibly entertaining, and pretty damn funny, so naturally, we couldn’t wait to see what she had to say about the disappointing final season of Game of Thrones. Her first video covering the topic debuted in late June, but the second essay
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How Game of Thrones’ Penultimate Episode Could Have Been Fixed
SPOILER ALERT! The final season of HBO’s epic series Game of Thrones is proving to be the show’s most controversial—but it’s not because of brutal content; it’s because many fans are disappointed in the rushed storylines and unresolved character arcs. With that in mind, here are a few things that could improve the penultimate episode,…
