The Most Popular Articles of 2025 on The Film Stage
As we continue our exploration of the highlights of 2025, today we will review the articles you, our valued readers, found most enjoyable over the past year. Covering reviews, interviews, features, podcasts, news, and trailers, take a look at the highlights below and check back for more year-end summaries.
Most-Read Reviews
1. Anniversary by Rory O'Connor
2. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die by Eric Vespe
3. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Jourdain Searles
4. The 2025 Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films by Jared Mobarak
5. Materialists by Jourdain Searles
6. Hamnet by Dan Mecca
7. Nuremberg by Ethan Vestby
8. Mickey 17 by Leonardo Goi
9. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You by Jourdain Searles
10. No Other Choice by Christopher Schobert
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Most-Read Interviews
1. One Battle After Another Editor Andy Jurgensen Discusses Cutting Paul Thomas Anderson’s Action-Comedy Epic by Jordan Raup
2. “That Cut Is Stanley’s Cut”: Nigel Galt on Editing Eyes Wide Shut with Kubrick by Nick Newman
3. Kelly Reichardt on The Mastermind: “Question Why You Want the Things You Want” by Michael Frank
4. Mamoru Oshii on Why Angel’s Egg Could Never Be Made Today by Eli Friedberg
5. “Not Everybody Has to Be Likable”: Stellan Skarsgård on Sentimental Value and Suffering by Daniel Eagan
6. Peter Deming on His Journey with David Lynch Through Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr., Twin Peaks, and Unrecorded Night by Nick Newman
7. “It Was Worth the Hassle”: The Brutalist Editor Dávid Jancsó Discusses Deliberate Pacing, Multiple Formats, and Crying at Venice by Jordan Raup
8. “All Grief is Unique”: David Cronenberg on The Shrouds, Life Beyond Story, and Making iPhones Cinematic by Nick Newman
9. “The Phones Became Weapons”: Anthony Dod Mantle on Animating 28 Years Later with Danny Boyle by Nick Newman
10. Paul Schrader Reflects on Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters' 40-Years-Late Japanese Premiere by Nick Newman
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Most-Read Features
1. “It is a Kingdom of Conscience or Nothing”: Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven at 20 by Dan Mecca
2. The 100 Most-Anticipated Films of 2026
3. One Battle After Another: Pop Culture Glossary by Cory Everett
4. The Film Stage’s Top 50 Films of 2025
5. The Best Cinematography of 2025
6. Pynchon, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Postmodernism on Film by Gideon Leek
7. The Best Documentaries of 2025
8. The 50 Best 2025 Films You Might Have Missed
9. All 2025 Films with Awards-Qualifying, One-Week Releases
10. The Best Undistributed Films of 2025
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Most-Listened-To Podcast Episodes
1. Alan Rudolph Discusses Choose Me
2. Is Tom Cruise Evil?
3. Carson Lund on Eephus and Hesse Deni on CHAOS
4. Remembering Robert Redford
5. Filipe Furtado on Brazilian Cinema
6. Maggie Cheung (with Nick Newman)
7. David Cronenberg (with Veronica Fitzpatrick)
8. Philip Seymour Hoffman
9. Dave Kehr on Film Restoration, Preservation, and MoMA’s Silent Movie Week
10. Dennis Lim on the 63rd New York Film Festival
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Most-Read News Stories
1. Steven Spielberg Applauds Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another: “What an Insane Movie”
2. Paul Thomas Anderson Selects Five Films to View Before One Battle After Another
3. Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another Test Screens Confirmed to Be a Modern Update on Vineland
4. Paul Thomas Anderson on Receiving Thomas Pynchon’s Approval to Radically Adapt Vineland: “I Stole the Parts That Really Resonated with Me”
5. John Waters’ Top 10 Films of 2025 Include Eddington, Final Destination Bloodlines, Sirāt & More
6. Download the Screenplays for the 2025 Awards Season
7. A David Lynch Short Film From 2018 is Now Available for Viewing for the First Time
8. David Lynch Talked to Naomi Watts and Laura Dern About a New Project Last Fall: “He Was Not, In Any Way, Done”
9. No Other Land Now Available
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The Most Popular Articles of 2025 on The Film Stage
As we delve into the highlights of 2025, today we're reviewing the articles that resonated most with you, our valued readers, over the last year. Covering a range of content including reviews, interviews, features, podcasts, news, and trailers, take a look at the highlights below and stay tuned for additional year-end features. Most-Read Reviews 1. Anniversary by Rory