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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Finally arriving on British screens in a golden cloud of awards hype, this take-no-prisoners tearjerker sees Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao rebounding from the Marvel mediocrity of Eternals — but i

Kate Winslet has been a screen icon for three decades. Now she’s stepped behind the camera to direct her first feature film

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

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