"For an interview on a Slate podcast this month, I was asked to pick a movie that exemplified 2025-not the year's best film necessarily, but one for which I could make the case that it belonged in some way to this moment in time and no other. Choosing a single title to fit such a broad remit is a trickier assignment in its way than coming up with a Top 10 list, especially if you're committing to spend 45 minutes on mic discussing your choice,"
"In Alison's introduction to her Top 10 list, she rightly declares this " a year for dreams of revolution on the big screen." What strikes me looking back at the year is how many forms those dreams and the change they envisioned could take, from what Alison calls "sweeping stories about fighting the good fight" to dystopic nightmares of entrapment and exploitation."
2025 cinema centers on dreams of revolution and varied visions of change, ranging from sweeping stories about fighting the good fight to dystopic nightmares of entrapment and exploitation. Many film protagonists are stuck in intolerable realities and devise individual or collective strategies to rebel, escape, and start again. Bong Joon Ho's acid sci-fi satire starring Robert Pattinson and Mark Ruffalo arrived in January as a harbinger of a dawning Trump II era but drew a lukewarm critical response and weak box-office returns. High expectations for established auteurs can skew reception of experimental, conceptual films.
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