| December 26, 2025 
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Hey, movie fans! We hope you had a nice holiday. And if you’re looking for more things to do with family and friends, enough movies have opened to keep you busy well through New Year’s Day. Many of these releases are critics’ picks, in addition to being a big part of the Oscar conversation. Perhaps most anticipated is “Marty Supreme,” Josh Safdie’s manic, midcentury table-tennis comedy starring Timothée Chalamet. It was No. 3 on our chief film critic Manohla Dargis’s Top 10 list, and she called Chalamet “sensational.” There’s also “The Testament of Ann Lee,” the period film about the founder and spiritual leader of the Shakers. That one is a critic’s pick from Alissa Wilkinson, who writes that the production is a “singular, astonishing, otherworldly biographical musical.” And for the Neil Diamond fans out there (and even for plenty who aren’t), there’s “Song Sung Blue,” the biopic about a cover band that stars Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson. In her critic’s pick review, Jeannette Catsoulis writes that “while Jackman is terrific as an over-the-hill striver with an almost pathological yen for the spotlight, it’s Hudson who will knock you sideways.” Speaking of Hudson, my colleague Brooks Barnes interviewed the star for a candid profile in which she speaks about her reputation in Hollywood and Botox treatments: “Sometimes it’s fun to have a forehead that doesn’t move,” she tells him with a laugh. Check these releases out and don’t forget to vote in our poll of readers’ 2025 favorites. Also, enjoy the movies! |
