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The 20 Best Movies Of 2025, According To CinemaBlend

The staff of CinemaBlend watched a lot of great films this year.

Cinemablend

TV tonight: Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh and a potty-mouthed parrot

The much-loved actors (and old friends) reminisce over a cuppa. Plus: a peek behind the scenes at the papal conclave. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

I saw 75 films this year – these are my 5 best and 5 worst movies of 2025

What a year for cinema it has been

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Method marketing and Marty Supreme: How Timothée Chalamet is changing the game

The actor has displayed a knack for crafting viral moments that dominate our social media feeds. He’s also the future of internet stardom

Evening Standard

The 25 Best Movies of 2025

The results are in: here are the GamesRadar+ picks for the very best movies of 2025

Total Film

The 15 best films of 2025, from Mickey 17 to One Battle After Another

THE COUNTDOWN: This was a cinematic year of vampires, clones, restless mothers, maybe-ETs and Leonardo DiCaprio struggling to remember complex revolutionary passwords. Clarisse Loughrey has counted down the very best

The Independent UK

I Knew Emma Stone Shaved Her Head For Bugonia, But I Had No Idea It Was Part Of A Pact

She wasn't the only one who shaved her head...

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Regretting You And Black Phone 2 Battle For The Top Spot At The Box Office During An Extremely Slow Halloween Weekend

Movie going was not a big priority for folks the last few days.

Cinemablend

Bugonia: a brilliant abduction thriller with Yorgos Lanthimos’s distinct absurdist stamp

Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos’s fourth film with actress Emma Stone finds the pair once again galvanising one another to extraordinary work. The partnership has produced two of the finest films of the last decade – The Favourite (2018) and Poor Things (2023) – as well as the less successful but…

The Conversation

Poor Things director's new movie Bugonia is a madcap sci-fi dark comedy that features Emma Stone's best performance

Big Screen Spotlight | Yorgos Lanthimos asks the difficult questions and keeps us on our toes with his latest movie Bugonia

Total Film

In Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia, Elites Are Alien Creatures

A bleak, absurdist take on the gap between the world of HR corporate speak and ordinary Americans

Reason

Bugonia Made The Decision To Gender Swap Emma Stone’s Character, And The Reasons Are Fascinating

From avoiding tropes to sexual dynamics.

Cinemablend

Bugonia review – A bald Emma Stone dazzles in Yorgos Lanthimos’s timely, heartbreaking comic satire

5/5 The director and star of ‘Poor Things’ and ‘The Favourite’ reunite for this funny and deeply topical film about conspiracy theorists and a kidnapped CEO who may or may not be an alien

The Independent UK

Bugonia director Yorgos Lanthimos wanted Emma Stone to keep her buzz cut

Emma Stone declined to keep her buzz cut, which she had done for Bugonia, after the comedy-sci-fi movie's director, Yorgos Lanthimos, tried to convince her to keep it.

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Bugonia: why some people’s brains cling to the idea that aliens are real

The latest absurdist offering from Yorgos Lanthimos, director of The Favourite and Poor Things, hits cinemas this week, and Bugonia promises to be another strange and rollicking masterpiece of complete, unmissable chaos.

Euronews

Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

A London exhibition that turns your heartbeat into art, an exhilarating new album from Florence and the Machine, and clown-induced spooks in HBO's new IT series. Here's what to look out for this week (if you dare).

Cinemablend

Bugonia Review: Emma Stone Has Found Her Perfect Director Collaborator, And I Hope They Keep Making Movies Together Forever

Director Yorgos Lanthimos continues to get the best out of his Poor Things star.

Cinemablend

‘A Mesmerizing Riot.’ Critics Have Seen Bugonia, And They Can’t Stop Talking About Emma Stone’s Performance

Her latest collab with Yorgos Lanthimos.

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'Bugonia' Ending Explained: The Writer Reveals What That Shocking Alien Twist Means

What happened at the end of 'Bugonia'? Writer Will Tracy talks about the bleak ending, why it speaks so urgently to this moment in time, and how it changed from the original.

The Independent UK

Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons make the case for the wild ride that is ‘Bugonia’

Jesse Plemons urges movie lovers to pause Netflix and watch “Bugonia” in theaters

Cinemablend

I Got To See Emma Stone's New Movie Bugonia Early, And I Think You Need To Add This Bonkers Dark Comedy To Your Spooky Season Watchlist

I was thoroughly spooked by this upcoming movie.

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Emma Stone: I'm lucky to work with Yorgos Lanthimos

Emma Stone has heaped praise on Yorgos Lanthimos, admitting that she feels "lucky" to work with the director.

The Guardian - UK

Go bald or go home: LA cinema offers free Bugonia ticket to those willing to shave their heads

In homage to Emma Stone’s character in the new Yorgos Lanthimos film, who has her hair shaved off by conspiracy theorists, an LA cinema will have a barber in its foyer

Cinemablend

Bugonia Is As Weird As I Hoped, But I Didn't Expect To Find The Main Characters So Interesting

I love and hate them.

Evening Standard

Bugonia review: Emma Stone is mesmerising in this bleak alien conspiracy

3/5 Screened at the BFI London Film Festival, the film sees Stone re-unite with Yorgos Lanthimos for a black comedy that’s low on laughs until a blood-spattered final act

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