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The Best Films of 2025

The results of our annual poll of critics, programmers, and filmmakers are in
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The Best Shorts of 2025

The long and short of it: the strongest, strangest, and boldest shorter films of 2025
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The Best Restorations of 2025

In with the old: the best restorations, preservations, reprints, and remasters of 2025
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The Best Scenes of 2025

By Devika Girish
Expanded time: exceptional scenes from Happyend, The Mastermind, and The Secret Agent stir the viewer out of the solipsism of the classic movie plot

The Film Comment Podcast: The Best Films of 2025

Drumroll, please: critics Bilge Ebiri and Amy Taubin join for a real-time countdown of the films topping our year-end critics’ poll

The Best Performances of 2025

By Michael Koresky
Faces: a confident unsentimentality unites the work of veteran actors Amy Madigan, David Strathairn, and Kathleen Chalfant

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Features

A Man of the World

By Michael Blair
It starts at home: a new DVD collection charts the artist Michael Smith’s enduring interest in the life and times of his hapless everyman alter-ego

Festivals

Restoring Images: Tokyo International Film Festival 2025

By Devika Girish
Past imperfect: many of the highlights of the festival reflected on how we remember troubled pasts

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: Kleber Mendonça Filho on The Secret Agent

By Film Comment
Times of mischief: the Brazilian auteur joins to discuss his latest, an endlessly inventive excavation of the specifics of past and place

Reviews

Book Review: Ross Lipman’s The Archival Impermanence Project

By Lily Grossbard
Print tests: the renowned restorationist’s new collection provides a much-needed meta-analysis of the film-preservation discipline

Light Work

The Afterlives of Éclair

By Alice Lovejoy
Factory dreams: the artist-run collective L’Abominable imagines a future for the film laboratory in the ruins of the legendary French studio

Podcast

The Film Comment Podcast: Noah Baumbach on Jay Kelly

By Film Comment
Can I go again? The writer-director discusses his latest, a screwball caper—with a touch of Baumbachian melancholy—about a regretful movie star played by George Clooney