Reviews of the Bosch

We have counted down fifteen excellent movies . Now, the Ten Best of 2025! 10. Nouvelle Vague -written by Holly Gent and Vincent Palmo, directed by Richard Linklater The French New Wave can often feel like an inaccessible corner of cinematic history, especially for people in the English-speaking world; but Richard Linklater not only found a way to present it in relatable terms, he did so while bringing a tangible sense of fun back into the filmmaking process. Nouvelle Vague  tells the story of the making of   Breathless , Jean-Luc Godard's influential classic and a landmark of the movement. Removing any vestige of self-seriousness in the bizarre style and personality of Godard, played by a fantastic Guillaume Marbeck in his debut role, the movie casts its collection of artists as creative, rebel youths seeking out experimentation as much for the thrill as for artistic merit. And for a figure so closely associated with the image of the auteur, Linklater aptly spotlights...

2025 may well go down as a pivotal year for cinema.  It was a year of great anxiety for the industry, the art form, and its future -with the business and politics behind the biggest producers of movies never more prominent. The space is becoming ever smaller as more studios threaten to be swallowed up by companies only marginally interested in cinema to begin with. Warner Bros. may be the latest to fall, and whether it is caught in the hands of Netflix or Paramount it faces a terrible future, both for the artists and audiences. There is the increased risk of government censorship from the Trump administration, perhaps at the very least we are on the precipice of seeing movies de-fanged of their relevant subjects and commentaries. And still more and more resources are being given over to franchise projects, sequels, and reboots that -with a few bizarre exceptions- the public seems very apathetic to; leaving less for creatives and genuine artists to thrive on. A.I. has continued to ...