The reviews
Scored out of ten, argued for in full, and permanently open to appeal. Newest first.
Sinners
2025
2025 · Ryan Coogler
Coogler took a genre mashup that had no business holding together and turned it into the most confident swing anyone has taken in years. We have not stopped thinking about the juke joint sequence.
One Battle After Another
2025
2025 · Paul Thomas Anderson
Two and a half hours of paranoid, funny, gorgeously shot chaos with a car sequence that had an entire cinema leaning sideways in their seats. Nobody expected this to be the fun one.
Weapons
2025
2025 · Zach Cregger
Cregger builds this like a set of nesting dolls and every layer is worse than the last. It is very funny right up until the exact moment it stops being funny, which is the trick he has now pulled twice.
The Substance
2024
2024 · Coralie Fargeat
Fargeat is not interested in your comfort, your dinner, or your ability to look directly at the screen. Demi Moore gives the performance of her career while the film screams in your face for two hours.
Nosferatu
2024
2024 · Robert Eggers
Candlelight, dread and a lot of people saying nothing in freezing rooms. Not the scariest film of the year, but easily the best looking one, and Lily-Rose Depp is committing entirely.
Challengers
2024
2024 · Luca Guadagnino
Three people, one very long game, and a soundtrack that treats a second-round match like the end of the world. Zendaya is playing chess while everyone else is playing tennis.
Anora
2024
2024 · Sean Baker
Sean Baker does the thing he always does, which is find enormous feeling in people other films treat as background. Mikey Madison is extraordinary and the last two minutes are devastating.
The Wild Robot
2024
2024 · Chris Sanders
Painterly, warm, and much sadder than the trailer led anyone to believe. The most beautiful looking animated film in years, and it has the emotional aim of a sniper.
