Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2025, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.
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Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. Resurrection opens in theaters on December 12.
Few filmmakers with just ...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. La Grazia opens in theaters on December 5.
In something of a rare feat, all ...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Cannes coverage. A Private Life begins a one-week qualifying run in NY and LA on December 5 and ...
With just five features to his name (four of which premiered at Cannes), writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho has swiftly, firmly established himself as a vit...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Venice coverage. Bugonia opens in theaters on October 24.
After dabbling in dystopian fantasy...
Since the early 2000s, the fiercely independent Argentine filmmaking collective El Pampero Cine has built a sui generis filmography by shirking conventions...
Nobel laureate Albert Camus is one of the most consequential thinkers and writers in the French language, having created absurdist characters and worlds th...
Traveling in a foreign land can be disorienting. Established routines lose their meaning. Unfamiliar sights, sounds, smells may trigger old memories or bra...
It wouldn’t be Cannes without a good scandal film. For 2025, British director Harry Lighton’s feature debut Pillion may be the one that sends the most peop...
