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<p>Best of: Oscar Isaac in ‘Frankenstein’, Jennifer Lawrence in ‘Die My Love’, Emma Stone in ‘Bugonia’, and Chase Infiniti in ‘One Battle After Another’</p>
Best of 2025

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

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

Inside Film

<p>The AI critic is an irksome presence, flooding the zone with his mediocre critiques, constantly trawling for clicks and likes</p>
Inside Film

Film critics are great because they’re flawed. AI critics are nothing

Artificial intelligence has given rise to a new breed of movie pundit – one that gloms onto consensus opinion and regurgitates rote praise. Xan Brooks looks out at this new frontier of film criticism and despairs

<p>And starring as himself: George Clooney is Jay Kelly in Noah Baumbach’s ‘Jay Kelly’</p>
Inside Film

George Clooney basically plays himself in Jay Kelly, and it’s wildly unconvincing

Noah Baumbach’s new comedy drama ‘Jay Kelly’ casts Clooney as a wealthy, handsome, pampered and indulged A-lister, and like many films in which fake stars opine about the miseries of celebrity, it quickly wears out its welcome, writes Xan Brooks

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