OFCS members don’t just write film reviews. Here are several articles you might find interesting.
Best of Lists
Best DVDs of 2025
- Excerpt: Most of them represent byways and catacombs far from the road of mainstream commercial releases. Most are films that, rather than consenting to be forgotten as quickly as the digestion of popcorn, stick in the brain like a haunting melody, or perhaps a shard of glass.
The Best film scenes of 2025
- Excerpt: A movie that makes it onto The A.V. Club‘s best films of the year list probably also includes at least one of the best scenes of the year. But a film also doesn’t need to be an indisputable success as a whole to have at least one moment that sticks with you months after catching it in theaters.
Hammer to Nail’s Best Films of 2025
Christopher Reed @ Hammer to Nail
- Excerpt: There has been no shortage of artistically strong films in 2025, which is why the critics at Hammer to Nail offer up such a great variety of titles in their respective Top 10 lists of the year. Our choices run the gamut from big studio fare like Ryan Coogler’s Sinners (a major blockbuster, marrying social commentary and wild entertainment in a thrilling mix) to more indie work released by streamers, such as Train Dreams, to documentaries that speak to the moment, among them Apocalypse in the Tropics, Cutting Through Rocks, and Holding Liat.
Top Ten TV Series of 2025
Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: Silver Screen Riot’s Annual Top Ten TV Series of 2025 drops featuring Matt Oakes’ personal favorite movies of the year.
Interviews
Marko Mäkilaakso on new film ‘The Creeps’
Essays
In memoriam: 2025’s cinematic obituaries mourned their losses before our eyes
- Excerpt: For the most affecting movies of the year, a death at the end wasn’t a spoiler, but the film’s very foundation.
One Battle After Another Is the Most Overrated Film of the Year
Kenji Fujishima @ Book and Film Globe
Awards Coverage
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2025
Kristian Lin @ Fort Worth Weekly
- Excerpt: I thought I’d post this annual feature a bit early so that you’re not overly slammed in the coming days when I put my other best lists of 2025’s movies on this site.
Contender: Diane Warren: Relentless
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Contender: Nuremberg
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Contender: Sirât
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Contender: The Secret Agent
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
DFW Film Critics Pick One Battle After Another
Kristian Lin @ Fort Worth Weekly
- Excerpt: As we do each December, the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association has picked its best movies of the year, and the big winner is One Battle After Another.
Poll: Re-Awarding Best Makeup & Hairstyling, 2015
Upcoming Film Previews
All You Need Is Kill, Updated
Avatar: Fire and Ash, Updated
Disclosure Day
Greenland 2: Migration
Grizzly Night
The Housemaid, Updated
I Was a Stranger
Lupin III: The Movie – The Immortal Bloodline
Lupin III: The Movie – The Immortal Bloodline, Updated
Midwinter Break
The Moment, Updated
My Father’s Shadow
Street Fighter
Supergirl
Tafiti: Across the Desert
Tributes
Heartwarming Stories About Rob Reiner That Prove Why Hollywood Loved Him
R.I.P. Rob Reiner
Kristian Lin @ Fort Worth Weekly
- Excerpt: When the news reports first dropped that two people had been found dead in Rob Reiner’s house in Brentwood, Calif., I’ll admit that the idea that Rob Reiner might be among them didn’t even occur to me. At 78 years old, the man’s energy was scarcely diminished.
Other Types of Articles
A Grim Yuletide List of Darkness for Your Holiday Viewing
C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: Dig into this list and find something off the beaten path for your Christmas holiday movie nights. We’ll always love Home Alone and Black Christmas, but there’s so much more darkness on film to behold for the yuletide season.
Movie Madness Episode 620: James Cameron Blue Himself Again
Erik Childress @ Movie Madness
- Excerpt: Finishing off the year with more Avatar, new Chan Wook-Park, Timothee Chamalat’s Oscar run, the My Lai massacre, bullies, one of the year’s worst and wash it down with some Neil Diamond.
Box Office History (Week 51, 2025)
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: December 19
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: December 20
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: December 21
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: December 22
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: December 23
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: December 24
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Oscar History: December 25
Wesley Lovell @ Awards Landscape
Poll: Now That You’ve Seen “Avatar: Fire and Ash”
Poll: What Are You Most Anticipating? (Jan. 2025, Wide)
Poll: What Are You Watching? (Dec. 26-28, 2025)
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