After a 2025 that delivered standout performances and box-office surprises, audiences are heading into 2026 with raised expectations. The past year reminded us that people still show up when the story ...

From “One Battle After Another” to “Sinners”, it’s been an incredible year for film – and 2026 looks just as exciting. Whether you’re a “Toy Story” fan or Christopher Nolan’s latest epic is more your ...

As the year closes on another fantastic slate of films, it's time to look ahead to 2026, where new projects from the likes of Steven Spielberg, Greta Gerwig, Denis Villeneuve, and Christopher Nolan ...

Your 2026 movie-going calendar is already filling up, and fast. Over the course of a calendar year, we here at IndieWire watch hundreds of new films. Some of those titles make it to our best of the ...

Denzel Washington in 'Highest 2 Lowest' (A25/Apple Original Films) Everyone loves a good thriller, but not everyone can define what a thriller is. There’s a lot of overlap with action and horror ...

Every year, the awards gods decree that a certain group of films are the most noteworthy. Many of the same titles end up appearing on every list of critics association awards, guild nominations and ...

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 A.V. Club is Paste Magazine‘s source for TV and film coverage. The best films of 2025 emerged from a landscape as politically volatile and competitively lopsided as the darkest days in Hollywood ...

Still from Peter Hujar's Day (2025), dir. by Ira Sachs (image courtesy Janus Films) A day in the life of Peter Hujar, a bungled museum heist, Meredith Monk's 60-year career — these subjects brought to ...

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 ...

Anyone will tell you that these are tumultuous, borderline-apocalyptic times for the film industry. Box office is down. The threat of AI looms. Billionaires and tech giants are laying waste to what ...

A multilayered political thriller, a dark-comedy salute to radical resistance, a ping-pong picaresque and a bluesy vampire tale set in Jim Crow Mississippi are among THR film reviewers’ favorites of ...