Congratulations are in order! By officially winning the bidding war to buy Warner Bros., Netflix has also acquired two more titles on Vanity Fair’s best movies of 2025 list. For a culture junkie (read: a nerd, present company included), there’s nothing quite like year-end list-making season. We get to reflect, sort, and, maybe best of all, argue about what should and should not make the cut. VF’s staff didn’t include Park Chan-wook’s immensely entertaining No Other Choice on our final list; was that the right choice? Did anyone but me really love Friendship enough for that movie to earn its spot? (This is a rhetorical question; I edited the list. If nobody else loved that movie, too bad!) Please, peruse at your leisure—and when you’re done, we have an equally thoughtful accounting of 2025’s best TV shows. We’re making lists; we’re checking them twice.
Elsewhere, Jason Bailey looks back at how Kill Bill became two movies, then one again; Jordan Hoffman laughs it up with the team behind the exceedingly silly British period drama parody Fackham Hall; and José Criales-Unzueta answers the question I always have when I rewatch Showgirls: What is going on at Versace?! More Monday… |
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Not all of these are necessarily the biggest films of the year, but all are worthy of special elevation. Ahead, the Vanity Fair staff’s alphabetical accounting of the best movies of 2025—a year strong enough that we couldn’t stop counting at just 10. |
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Twenty-three years after Quentin Tarantino envisioned his Uma Thurman–starring saga as a single epic film—then split it into two volumes—Kill Bill has been reborn in The Whole Bloody Affair. |
VF’s José Criales-Unzueta breaks down Donatella’s new role, an acquisition from the Prada Group, and the sudden departure of its newly hired designer. |
The team behind this delightfully stupid British import on what makes the upper crust so funny, their encounter with Julian Fellowes, and why the ex-prince Andrew should give it a watch: “He’s got nothing else to do.” |
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The art fairs in London and Paris were big hits, and November auctions did well. The art market, by all indications, is on an uptick…but Miami Beach, which opened for VIPs Wednesday, is feeling squeezed by the ever-expanding art-fair circuit. Galleries dropped out. Collectors opted out of making the trek.
What was the vibe exactly? VF culture correspondent Nate Freeman has the full report. |
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