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The 12 months 2025 was laborious for the movie trade however good for films. “Wanting again at this turbulent 12 months, rife with the standard trade considerations over the viability of the theatrical expertise, younger individuals’s slipping consideration spans, and Hollywood’s overreliance on franchises, reveals a various crop of gems,” my colleague David Sims wrote this week.
Spend time together with his checklist of the 12 months’s 10 finest movies, and while you’re accomplished reflecting on the 12 months that was, spare a second for a few of our critics’ different suggestions. Possibly you’ll return to a beloved favourite or discover one thing new.
On Films
The ten Finest Films of 2025
By David Sims
The standout movies that helped cinema survive one other turbulent 12 months
5 Films Value a Repeat Watch
By Stephanie Bai
Our writers and editors share which movies they will get pleasure from time and again.
25 Really feel-Good Movies You’ll Need to Watch Once more—And Once more
By David Sims
Anxious? Listed below are a number of the finest and most rewatch-friendly films to assuage your thoughts. (From 2020)
Nonetheless Curious?
- One of the best albums of the 12 months: Though we could also be on the cusp of a significant shift in how music is made, attaining wonderful outcomes will at all times require a human method, our critic Spencer Kornhaber writes.
- Hopeful photographs from 2025: Images that acknowledge a number of the plentiful pleasure and kindness current on the earth round us
Different Diversions
- ‘Six-seven’ is six ft below.
- What do you consider Barry Bonds now?
- Why {couples} therapists are sick of ‘therapy-speak’
PS
I just lately requested readers to share a photograph of one thing that sparks their sense of awe on the earth. C.B., age 68, despatched this picture of Vancouver, Canada.
I’ll proceed to characteristic your responses within the coming weeks.
— Isabel
