Spike your eggnog and relax with our list of the finest flicks of the year about invasive AI, soaring superheroes, and Lovecraftian horrors.

In our annual year-end edition, we expand our usual “ICYMI” feature, highlighting 2025’s most-read stories about film and television.

Richard Linklater had one hell of a year, directing two transcendent biopics that were released within weeks of each other: “ Nouvelle Vague ,” the story of Jean-Luc Godard kickstarting his career by ...