The Best Movies of 2025

Ten great movies (and a baker's dozen of very good runners-up) for a pretty bad year.

What to Watch: "Resurrection" and most of the year's best films

Bi Gan's epic phantasmagoria cries out to be seen on the big screen. Plus: The Boston Society of Film Critics' picks for the best movies of 2025 -- and where to stream them.

Rob Reiner 1947-2025

The actor-director was a great mensch, and the virtues that flow from that informed the films he made and the life he lived.

What to Watch: "Wake Up Dead Man" & More

Donald Trump's Letter to Santa

Tis the season, God help us all. (I know everyone's doing one of these, but I had to get my licks in.)

What to Watch: "The Left-Handed Girl," "The Stringer," Jay Kelly"

As Netflix gets ready to take over the world, the service offers three fine new films. Resistance is futile.

The Turkey Day List

Reasons to be thankful, part 68.

What to Watch: "Train Dreams," "Listers" and more

One of the year's best comes to Netflix and a scrappy home-made documentary about birding takes YouTube by storm. Plus: Reviews of "Rental Family," "Wicked: For Good" and some bleak humor for a time of ICE.

One Good Film: "Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets" (+ new to VOD)

The Ross brothers's 2020 ode to a Las Vegas dive's last stand is warm, funky and trickier than it seems.

Max and Cheese

In which the author bites into the bittersweet Proustian madeleine of a youthful gig picking T&A movies for a major pay cable service.

What to Watch: Herzog on Criterion, "Sentimental Value"

What Not to Watch: "Nuremberg." (Well, if you must.)

What to Watch: "The Summer Book," "The Perfect Neighbor," "Bugonia"

Glenn Close stars in a film adaptation of Tove Jansson's translucent memoir. Plus: A Florida tragedy documented and Yorgos Lanthimos' latest provocation.