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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

I know it's hard to believe, but we are already over halfway through the year. That means it's time for me to unveil my lists of the 20 Best, and 20 Worst Movies at the halfway point of 2025. I do this every year to keep track of my favorite and least favorite films of each year, and to let everyone know which movies to seek out, and which movies to avoid. It also makes it much easier to put my final lists together at the end of the year. This is simply a list of 20 film tit

My Film Critic pants are covered in Spring-like flowers; they are on, pressed, and ironed. I'm ready to review four new movies in this week's capsule (short) movie reviews for Friday, April 11th, 2025. 1) THE AMATEUR James Hawes'   The Amateur  is a surprisingly solid entry in the spy thriller genre. It is a remake (or, more accurately, a new adaptation) that most people probably forgot already existed. Based on the 1981 novel by Robert Littell , the film was previously made