In one of 2025’s best films, ‘Sentimental Value’ illuminates the unseen costs of creating art and the debt it owes to lived experience. At the same time, it reveals how much of what we hope to express is often suppressed, either in favor of grander gestures or in service of our fears. Some things are simply too difficult to talk about, let alone explain in different languages.

‘Predator: Badlands’ is a wholly different kind of film for the franchise, a brisk, Saturday-morning cartoon level action-packed adventure that’s all killer no filler, delivering on the promise of its title and then some.