Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another bagged a record nine awards at the 2025 Chicago Film Critics Association awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor for Benicio del Toro, and Supporting Actress for Teyana Taylor.
Will Smith stars in the new National Geographic docuseries Pole to Pole With Will Smith. Five years in the making, the series follows Will across all seven continents, taking him from the icefields of Antarctica to the jungles of the Amazon, the mountains of the Himalayas, the deserts of Africa, the islands of the Pacific and the icebergs of the Arctic.
One Battle After Another led the Phoenix Critics Circle 2025 awards with six wins, including Best Picture, Director and Screenplay for Paul Thomas Anderson, Supporting Actor for Benicio Del Toro, along with Best Cinematography for Michael Bauman.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another has topped Film Comment’s annual end-of-year critics’ top films released in 2025 list, followed by Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent.
German director Wim Wenders will lead the International Jury at the 76th Berlin International Film Festival taking place from February 12 to 22, 2026.
Noomi Rapace will be honored at Göteborg Film Festival with the Nordic Honorary Dragon Award and present the Nordic premiere of Mother, along with director Teona Strugar Mitevska.
New York Jewish Film Festival returns for its 35th edition to Film at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater from January 14 through January 28, 2026, showcasing nearly 30 features, documentaries, and shorts.
Holding Liat is an intimate documentary on Israeli-American couple Liat Beinin Atzili and her husband Aviv Atzili, who were kidnapped from their kibbutz during the October 7 attacks, and the subsequent fight for Liat’s safe return.
Timothée Chalamet will receive the Spotlight Actor of the Year Award for his performance in Marty Supreme at the Palm Springs International Film Awards.
From the glittering heights of pop stardom to the crushing weight of expectation, The Moment promises a vaguely true look behind the curtain of Charli xcx’s viral BRAT summer.
The HBO Music Box series created by Bill Simmons, dives into the world of children’s music, uncovering stories of the artists who shaped the genre, with the documentary Happy and You Know It.
Rose Byrne will be honored at Palm Springs International Film Awards with the Breakthrough Performance Award for her performance in Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.