Women directors aren’t a new concept. But the surge of actresses stepping behind the camera? That’s this year’s plot twist. From Oscar winners Kate Winslet and Scarlett Johansson to breakout talents ...

A multilayered political thriller, a dark-comedy salute to radical resistance, a ping-pong picaresque and a bluesy vampire tale set in Jim Crow Mississippi are among THR film reviewers’ favorites of ...

Movies are the great escape. “Optimistic endings, passionate romances,” sings the incarcerated dreamer of “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” who looks to old Hollywood movies as an oasis of beauty and faith.

It’s hard to look at the astounding box-office and critical success of Sinners and Weapons and say 2025 was not a great year for horror. And yet, here I am, bravely doing it anyway: 2025 was not a ...

Great cinema has never died, but there’s something particularly heartening about the fact that it survived 2025. Looking back at this turbulent year, rife with the usual industry concerns over the ...

For almost as long as there have been films, there have been Christmas movies to go with them. But it wasn’t until television came along that watching Christmas movies became a true holiday tradition.

Our film critics watch a lot of movies in a year. By December, their viewing slates span international standouts, festival favorites, studio blockbusters, and plenty more in between. Below, Justin ...

2025 was a year that posed a lot of questions for movie lovers: Did the success of Sinners prove that there was still a mass audience hungry for original (read: non-IP) stories on a blockbuster level?

There’s something uniquely pleasurable about absurdist films. These movies tend to ask a lot of viewers, encouraging them to let go of the normal way of making sense of the world and embrace the ...

Private Hell 36 (Filmakers) is a family picture—in a peculiarly Hollywoodsy sense. The romantic leads, Ida Lupino and Howard Duff, are Mr. & Mrs. in private life, but in the picture they make love to ...

When Ida Lupino was working as an actress under contract to Warner Bros. in the 1940s, she joked that she was “the poor man’s Bette Davis,” partly because she tended to be offered parts that Davis had ...