Ufotable co-founder Hikaru Kondo and producer Yuma Takahashi break down Infinity Castle’s box office, animation craft, and ...

The best actress race, meanwhile, remains a bloodbath. Renate Reinsve, Emma Stone, Kate Hudson, Chase Infiniti, Cynthia Erivo ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Film stills clockwise from top left: "Peter Hujar's Day" (Courtesy of Janus Films); "It Was Just an Accident" (Courtesy NEON); "One Battle After Another" (Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures); "Blue Moon" ...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” was named the best film of 2025 by the New York Film Critics Circle, which announced its annual awards on Tuesday. While the film went into the ...

Critics have the run of awards season right now. On December 1, the Gotham Awards gave One Battle After Another and It Was Just an Accident its highest honors, and just one day later, it’s time for ...

Michael Block is a 14 time GLAM Award nominated writer, producer, and host of the podcast Block Talk. Throughout his time in the entertainment industry, he has worked on and off Broadway as a stage ...

The beauty of film as art is that it contains a variety of forms. It can be a fictional, narrative story that springs out of the imagination of a writer, or a documentary that details historical ...