2025 was a year that posed a lot of questions for movie lovers: Did the success of Sinners prove that there was still a mass audience hungry for original (read: non-IP) stories on a blockbuster level?

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Movies are the great escape. “Optimistic endings, passionate romances,” sings the incarcerated dreamer of “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” who looks to old Hollywood movies as an oasis of beauty and faith.

In 2025, even a challenged television landscape was rife with transportive stories. From streamers to broadcast networks, these narratives immersed viewers in different time periods, alternative ...

Design: Dan Goldfarb; Images: Justin Ford, Octavio Passos, Peter Fox, Mattia Ozbot, Adam Pretty, David Ramos / Getty Images As 2025 draws to a close, it’s time to look back at the year’s biggest feats ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Documentaries are a dime a dozen in the streaming era because they’re cheaper to produce, so while they satiate ...

The New Deal, George Selgin suggests, did not work the way most historians claim. This economist’s eye-opening analysis shows that the increased government centralization of the 1930s rarely resulted ...

The best albums of 2025 spanned seismic rage rap, intricate guitar music, protest folk, spacey dream pop, and laptop twee. A virtuoso of experimental electronic music re-emerged, a Brooklyn band ...

The 21st edition of The Black List, the yearly compilation of Hollywood’s best-liked unproduced screenplays, dropped on Tuesday morning, with Matisse Haddad‘s Best Seller leading the pack in ...

You wouldn’t call 2025 an “off” year for horror — more like an odd one. Both A24 and Neon continued to back several scary-movie auteurs (the prolific Osgood Perkins, the brothers Danny and Michael ...

I’m not going to lie: 2025 was not a year that’s easy to put a rosy spin on, even in the introductory blurb to a list of the year’s best movies. This has been a 12-month period of daily pummeling by ...

Hanukkah, one of the most widely observed Jewish holidays, is weeks away from beginning. Known as the festival of lights, Hanukkah is an eight-day holiday in the Jewish faith marked by the nightly ...