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. On Christmas Eve this year, I watched Gone with the Wind and Casablanca with my family, and near the end of the second film, my father said that these were the films

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. My initial assessment of this year of cinema is one of disappointment. I have never felt more disillusioned or detached from the mainstream Hollywood mode of film before. Even the film du

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. I’ve been lucky to see so many movies over the last year, to speak with filmmakers, to experience film festivals, to see movies with friends, family, and loved ones. Some incredible movies

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. As the goal posts draw nearer my attention falters. Culture slips away. The state of transcendence movies used to induce is replaced too often by boredom, by the sense that I've seen

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. Earlier this year, my dad, Alan, died at the age of 61. He was the funniest and kindest man I’ve ever known, and, most relevant to this article, he was the one