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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

My Film Critic pants are quite fetching; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review five new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, October 17th, 2025. 1) AFTER THE HUNT After the Hunt  is Luca Guadagnino  doing Woody Allen . Or, more accurately, Luca Guadagnino dismantling Woody Allen. Because what this movie really is, at its core, is a thought experiment: What if you tried to make one of those pompous, pseudo-intellectual Woody Allen fil