A “best of” movies list devoted to the first half of the year raises an implicit question: Is there a substantive difference between the first half of the year and the second half? We all know the ...

Your 2026 movie-going calendar is already filling up, and fast. Over the course of a calendar year, we here at IndieWire watch hundreds of new films. Some of those titles make it to our best of the ...

The Oscar shortlist for Outstanding International Feature Film will be revealed December 15 AMPAS The race for the Best International Feature Film Oscar at the 99th Academy Awards is heating up, with ...

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Movies are the great escape. “Optimistic endings, passionate romances,” sings the incarcerated dreamer of “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” who looks to old Hollywood movies as an oasis of beauty and faith.

John Waters ranks his top 10 films of 2025. Strand Releasing/Courtesy Everett Collection/Richard Foreman/A24/Courtesy Everett Collection/Warner Bros./Courtesy Everett Collection As a new year of films ...

From new Christopher Nolan and Greta Gerwig films to more "Dune" and "The Social Network," the movies we're most looking forward to in the new year. The year 2025 is hardly in the rearview, as the ...

More than 500 influential directors, actors and other notable names in Hollywood and around the world voted on the best films released since Jan. 1, 2000. Here is how their ballots stacked up. Between ...

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