Audiences continued to defy the critics in 2025, with two widely panned films – A Minecraft Movie and the live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch – dominating the box office. Here are some of the films the critics did like, a few of which were also commercial hits

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Bizarre Love Triangle

OUR TOP FIVE PICKS OF THE WEEK

Dir Julia Ducournao, France/Belgium, 2025 On digital platforms As the daughter of a gynæcologist and a dermatologist, it was perhaps inevitable that French screenwriter/director Julia Ducournao would

Motivated by pure affection, veteran indie director Richard Linklater tells the story of how Jean-Luc Godard’s early masterpiece Breathless came to be: it’s 1960 Paris, and Godard (channeled here by m