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The Guardian Weekly
|December 19, 2025
Sensitive realism, a countercultural caper and a frontline dispatch feature in the best movies of the year
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SCREEN SHARING BEST FILMS: 10 TO 6
10 A Real Pain
Jesse Eisenberg effortlessly walks a tonal tightrope in this film about Jewish American cousins on a Holocaust tour in Poland. But Kieran Culkin steals the show.
9 Nickel Boys
This adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel about two young friends trapped by institutional abuse is told with piercing beauty by RaMell Ross.
8 It Was Just an Accident
An unfortunate encounter with a dog sets off a chain of surreal, grotesque events in Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or winner, which exposes the corruption and tyranny at the heart of Iran.
7 The Mastermind
Kelly Reichardt’s quietist, observational style is unexpectedly successful at creating a supernaturalistic depiction of an art gallery robbery.
6 Riefenstahl
Andres Veiel shows how the filmmaker loved by Hitler hit the heights with her Berlin Olympics movie – and how she tried and failed to save her Nazi-tinged reputation.
5 Marty SupremeWhen reports started to emerge that Timothée Chalamet was going to play a ping pong champion in a film called Marty Supreme, the world (including this correspondent) rolled its eyes. Was Hollywood’s most annoying actor going to go for broke in what promised to be the most irritating film of all time? I am here to hold up my hand and say that first impressions couldn’t have been more wrong. Marty Supreme is one of the most exciting, indeed sensational films of the year.
यह कहानी The Guardian Weekly के December 19, 2025 संस्करण से ली गई है।
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THE YEAR THAT WAS
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COUNTRY DIARY
It has become an annual ritual, the cutting of branches from this shapely holly for a winter wreath.
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PAINT IT ORANGE HOW A CHARITY TURNED ANGER INTO COMMUNITY PRIDE
Dashing through the snow with Father Chris... It does not get any more seasonal, even if it feels like there might be a final syllable missing.
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EVERDAY HEROES
From a woman speaking out against state violence to a journalist killed in Gaza, here are some of the brave people who made a real difference in 2025
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A Trumpian Kennedy Center is warning to all cultural institutions
Into the pale stone wall of the Kennedy Center, above its elegant terrace on the edge of the Potomac River, are carved bold and idealistic sentiments.
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THE INTERREGNUM
Confronted with the 'mobster diplomacy' of Donald Trump, the world finds itself in a transitional moment as the rules-based global order, its institutions and value system face a crisis of credibility and legitimacy
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Albums
From unspooling love to decadent fun, our critics' picks of the year's finest LPs
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A PARIS SPRINGBOARD
The decade since the 2015 climate accord has been bruising for activists and the planet. Some experts insist progress is being made-but is it really enough?
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Tragedy foretold How the rise in antisemitic incidents led to Bondi attack
Shortly after the mass shooting targeting Australia’s Jewish community last Sunday, Rabbi Levi Wolff of Central Sydney Synagogue told reporters that “the inevitable has happened now”.
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