From Australian-made gore to sugar-rush animation, here are the films that had our critics seated and watching this year.

Ari Aster's Eddington, in which Joaquin Phoenix's conspiracist sheriff and Pedro Pascal's tech-friendly centrist lock horns in an election, lays bare the deep divisions in the American psyche. The ...

This year's best movies were wildly inventive, endlessly entertaining, and confronted modern American culture head-on.

From 'The Ugly Stepsister' to 'Final Destination Bloodlines,' Dread Central's Ashliene McMenamy selects her top 10 horror ...

Austin Butler’s Caught Stealing was a commercial flop, but fans and critics loved its debut in August 2025. Now, it’s already ...

LOS ANGELES — A funny thing about this year’s best films: Half of them are adaptations. As a movie lover who’s always hunting for new talent, new ideas and new stimuli, I used to view that as creative ...

In movies like “Eddington,” “Sinners,” “Wake Up Dead Man” and others, filmmakers have at last wrapped their heads around how ...

One of the year’s funniest movies, co-writer, director and star Michael Angelo Covino’s sad sack rom-com is a hilarious study ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season’s most talked-about movies continues ...

Edward Burns returns with The Family McMullen, a sequel to his 1995 hit. Streaming now on HBO Max, the 2025 comedy is based ...

The Smithsonian is going to the state fair with a new exhibit. Read more about the New Mexicans who are featured College of Santa Fe alum Ari Aster to helm A-list 'Eddington'; Emma Stone, Joaquin ...