best movies 2025

Frankenstein Movie Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Lavish Gothic Epic Finally Lives

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Gothic laboratory scene from Frankenstein: towering stitched creature silhouette in lightning with arctic ship beyond

The Verdict Guillermo del Toro has waited three decades to make Frankenstein, and it shows in every frame. This is not a horror movie so much as a gothic opera: a 149-minute, lushly mounted retelling of Mary Shelley’s novel starring Oscar Isaac as the doomed Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the Creature — a … Read more

One Battle After Another Movie Review: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Electrifying Resistance Epic

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Desert road chase scene from One Battle After Another: battered station wagon pursued at dusk

The Verdict Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is the rare studio blockbuster that feels dangerous. A 161-minute action epic shot in VistaVision, it follows a washed-up revolutionary dragged back into the fight when his teenage daughter vanishes. With Leonardo DiCaprio stumbling through the smoke of his own past and Sean Penn turning in … Read more