The year's best movies helped us cope. Here's a 2025 list, with stories about trauma, grief, vampires and more.

As 2025 draws to a close, I must inevitably reflect upon the year’s cinematic offerings. Don’t worry: I have no intention of ...

This year brought us some bangers of film, but these ones stood out as exemplars of what this medium is capable of.

America invented the western, but Italy put their own spin on the genre with the spaghetti western, and we think these are ...

Nuzo Onoh, an award-winning Nigerian-British writer of Igbo descent, is a pioneer of the African horror literary genre, amid a ...

Netflix’s movie catalog is always growing. With an immense library of both original offerings, licensed blockbusters, and ...

There’s long been a strong relationship between members of the LGBTQ+ community and horror. It’s easy to see why this would be the case, as many horror movies, in one way or another, deal with ...

From blockbuster franchises and long-awaited sequels to star-studded dramas and comedies, 2026 is shaping up to be a huge ...

Remus is also the author of the sci-fantasy novel Once Upon a Time in Hyperspace and several works of short fiction in the ...

Were any potential all-time great pictures made this year? Perhaps Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value has a shot. It does remarkably well in capturing one family’s relationship in somewhat universal ...

For an interview on a Slate podcast this month, I was asked to pick a movie that exemplified 2025—not the year’s best film ...

If this year proved anything, it’s that movies are still taking big, exciting swings. This list of what we think are the best movies of 2025 is all over the place in the best way: gnarly horror, ...