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 ...

Movies stay with us. Whether you like comedies, dramas, historical epics, or musicals, films tend to leave behind moments that live rent-free in our heads long after the credits roll — for both good ...

Horror films got a tremendous boost due in no small part to original ideas. Though sequels like Final Destination: Bloodlines and 28 Years Later made an impression, it was original films like Sinners, ...

Just one full week remains in 2025, and it's important to make the most of it. In a year where the box office has been sadly stacked with financial flops despite often strong critical reception, it's ...

What's your favorite scary movie? When putting together this 2025 ranking, that delightful horror-film catchphrase suddenly became an impossible question. Ranking these movies felt like an impossible ...

Every year is a great year for movies if you’re willing to look for them. Sure, some of the biggest and most celebrated films deserve their acclaim, while many films with microscopic releases, or from ...

Let's just say it: 2025 was a really good year for movies. Not all of them are. Sometimes compiling a Top 10 list is a chore. There are always a couple of great movies, a handful of good ones and then ...

From Netflix to Prime Video, and Shudder to the Criterion Channel, here are the best movies coming to each streaming platform this month. Netflix may get most of the attention, but it’s hardly a ...

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 ...

Some places exist in movies so vividly that they feel almost mythical as if they were built solely for the screen. But a lot of those breathtaking backdrops are real places you can visit. Whether ...

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 ...