In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2025, Justin Chang, Alison Willmore, and Bilge Ebiri—about the year in cinema. Dear Alison, Bilge, and Justin, For ...

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. 2025 got off to a bang early with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Our film critics rank their 10 favorites of the year. By Manohla Dargis and Alissa Wilkinson Manohla Dargis It was another great year for the movies and another horrible, hair-on-fire year for the ...

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 ...

Cinema in 2025 continued to feel alive, restless, and deeply curious about the world we live in. From large-scale studio spectacles to filmmaker-driven passion projects, this year has shown how movies ...

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 ...