Everyone knows it’s hard to get college students to do the reading—remember books? But the attention-span crisis is not limited to the written word. Professors are now finding that they can’t even get ...

Editor’s note: Warning: Although we’ve done our best to avoid spoiling anything too major, please note this list does include a few specific references that some might consider spoiler-y. It’s been a ...

It was 1956 when Brigitte Bardot burst into global fame with And God Created Woman, a film directed by her then-husband, Roger Vadim. Though not her first film, it was the one where everything changed ...

Your 2026 movie-going calendar is already filling up, and fast. Over the course of a calendar year, we here at IndieWire watch hundreds of new films. Some of those titles make it to our best of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Across the span of his decades-long career in Hollywood, Rob Reiner directed a host of beloved films—the kind you watch again and again, finding something new in them each time. As we mourn the tragic ...

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 ...

From genocidal aliens to aimless bromances, the best films of the year were audacious enough to reach a hand into the shadowy corners of our collective unrest, unafraid of what they might bring back ...

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