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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

With the release of Paul Thomas Anderson ’s latest film, the absolute masterpiece One Battle After Another , I thought I’d sit down, hammer this out, and finally put together a piece about my favorite filmmaker of all time. That’s right, Paul Thomas Anderson. PTA. The best filmmaker on the planet. Period. I’m going to say this upfront: the man has not made a bad movie. Not one. Ten films, ten great films, all four-star movies in my book. Some of them are flat-out masterpieces

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, September 26th, 2025. 1) ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER Paul Thomas Anderson's  latest, his tenth feature, is One Battle After Another , loosely inspired by Thomas Pynchon's  1990 novel Vineland . The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio , Sean Penn , Benicio del Toro , Regina Hall , Teyana Taylor , and Chase Infiniti  in he