From an old-fashioned western to a charming baseball comedy, Guardian writers pick their favourite lesser-known films of the year The pick of 2025’s film, music, art, TV, stage and games, chosen by ...

Next year still dangles a few scrumptious meals that have been frustratingly out of reach — Bi Gan’s Resurrection, Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme and Kleber Mendonca Filho’s The Secret Agent among them — ...

As far as a wide-angle view of the industry is concerned, the trends you’ve heard about continued to gather steam. Hollywood is in all sorts of financial trouble, especially when it comes to original ...

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 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 ...

From the surreal fairytale The Ice Tower to the revenge western Tornado, our readers share the films that had the biggest impact on them this year The 50 best films of 2025 Peter Bradshaw’s film picks ...

With the New Year upon us, it’s time for our annual tradition of looking at the cinematic horizon. Having highlighted the films we guarantee are worth seeing in 2026 and those we hope get U.S.

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 ...

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 ...

James Cameron's third "Avatar" film is estimated to have a production budget of around $250–300 million. That makes it one of costliest films in history, but is it in the top ten? We can answer that ...

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