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

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. The year 2025 was, for me, the first in my memory in which movies didn’t mean much. Well, mostly. Outside of parenting, work, home ownership, and general worrying, my pop culture ponderings