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.

In ‘Eddington,’ Ari Aster stages the pandemic we all know too well with blunt clarity: what seem like jabs are really tiny snapshots of reality, moments that, in hindsight, are as frustratingly silly as they are true.

Yearning is close enough to ache, but never near enough to name. Petersen Vargas’ debut short sits with the painful weight of queer longing left in the margins.

In ‘Nosferatu,’ Robert Eggers places the heroine at the forefront to confidently deliver a modern spin on the iconic vampire tale that plumbs more into the sensually driven psyche than it indulges in bloodlust.

After more than 40 years of rewrites, Francis Ford Coppola's psychedelic and captivating passion project is finally a reality. But at what cost must one keep reaching for the sun, when even the Godfather can't escape the pull of the ground?

Through the newly restored ‘Bona,’ Lino Brocka renders water so sociopolitically volatile and cinematically iconic that even after four decades, its impact is still felt on our skin.

Transmuting radical experiences into something so horrific but tenderly empowering, Jane Schoenbrun's second feature asserts why they are one of the most uncompromising and original directors working today.

‘Inside Out 2’s’ onslaught of jokes is more engaging than the story that prescribes the emotion for you, leaving you no room to feel nor breathe.

'Sleepless’ boldly defies the conventional Filipino rom-com formula, offering an intimate look at an enduring love not confined in romance...and opportunistic profit machines.

'The Zone of Interest' is an unprecedented triumph that's devoid of gruesome imagery but leaves you deeply scarred enough to internalize evil rather than merely look and listen.

After 60 years of raising the standards for animation, Studio Ghibli auteur Hayao Miyazaki continues to up the ante with his visionary and expansive storytelling. As an iconic film maestro, he not only creates yet another mesmerizing world on screen but also confronts the profound legacy he has woven throughout his illustrious career.