Netflix's most-watched movies in 2025 were viewed for hundreds of thousands of hours - but some are ultimately still better ...

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 ...

The annual Annenberg Inclusion Initiative report out of USC finds that only nine women directors worked on the 100 top-grossing films of the year. By Mia Galuppo Senior Entertainment Reporter ...

As we move deeper into the best films of 2025, the conversation shifts from spectacle to substance. This part of the list highlights movies that linger long after the credits roll, films that trust ...

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 best art world movies of 2025 depicted a refreshingly of-the-moment take on that rarefied milieu: ambivalent, anxious, hungry for success, but uncertain of how it will be achieved in a rapidly ...

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. All but one of the films listed below premiered ...

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 ...

With cinema coming at audiences from every direction in 2025, the movies that endured were the ones that refused to be forgotten. 2025 was another strong year for cinema, although that is debatable ...

On a special 2025 wrap-up podcast, The Film Stage co-founder and editor-in-chief Jordan Raup is joined by managing editor and Emulsion host Nick Newman and The B-Side co-host Conor O’Donnell to ...