Tim Burton has arguably made better movies than Edward Scissorhands, before and since. But it may be his most original and soul-bearing movie.

With films like Sinners and Bugonia, the R-rating ruled 2025, proving itself less a marker of violence and more a license for unfiltered storytelling.

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 ...

R-rated movies have thrived throughout the 21st century, with masterpieces like David Lynch's Mulholland Drive and ...

2025 was a year that posed a lot of questions for movie lovers: Did the success of Sinners prove that there was still a mass audience hungry for original (read: non-IP) stories on a blockbuster level?

The premise of Varsity Blues is that in a small town obsessed with football, the local high school’s backup quarterback has dreams of putting the pigskin behind him and attending Brown University. But ...

“The Running Man” and “Chad Powers” star Glen Powell is producing an R-rated teen comedy feature, “The Fuckboat,” at Paramount, Variety has learned exclusively. Described as a “high concept” project ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Quentin Tarantino named his top 10 films of the 21st century during a recent appearance on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast. And some of his picks may surprise you.

It was a big year for Netflix in 2025, as two new original film releases, including KPop Demon Hunters, broke into the platform’s global list of the top 10 most-viewed films in the history of the ...

Adults who complain that they want more theatrical movies that aren’t silly spectacles involving capes, spandex and or/aliens firing death rays have only themselves to blame: There are still plenty of ...