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It’s my favorite time of year. It really is. It’s time to talk about the best and worst movies of 2025, and every year (for as long as I’ve been doing this, which is now 40 years) film critics like myself have to dig into our hearts and our guts and our brains and figure out which movies we loved the most. Forty years. I can’t believe it. March of 2025 marked my official 40th anniversary as a professional film critic. And yes (shameless plug here) to honor that milestone, I p

In honor of the release of his brand-new film Caught Stealing , which I think is one of the most flat-out entertaining movies he has ever made and without question one of the best films of 2025, I thought it was time to rank all of Darren Aronofsky ’s films in order of my personal preference. Darren Aronofsky is one of my favorite filmmakers and, in my opinion, one of the most important directors of his generation. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 12, 1969, to C

My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review six new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, August 29th, 2025. 1) CAUGHT STEALING Darren Aronofsky  has made a career out of films that feel like endurance tests, searing, confrontational, artistic gut-punches that leave you exhausted, exhilarated, sometimes even wrecked. Requiem for a Dream  destroyed me (I loved it and have only seen it once, because I