“Frankenstein” By THE NEW YORK TIMES Every year The New York Times’ critics put out a list of their Top 10 movies of the year. But there are a lot of film experts in the newsroom, and in a terrific year for the big screen, we wanted to get a sense of what stuck with them the most. So we polled the 16 staffers who play important roles in shaping our movie coverage. Here are our 25 most notable films of 2025, in alphabetical order. ‘28 Years Later’ Stream it on Netflix; rent or

“28 Years Later” We look at the finest in science fiction, horror, action and international films, all available to stream. SCIENCE FICTION Danny Boyle’s “28 Years Later” smartly, splashily refreshed the zombie genre by depicting a future in which Britain, overrun by a horrific virus and cordoned off from the rest of the world, has regressed into a preindustrial society. You could see this latest installment in the series as a bonkers, stylistically brilliant Brexit allegory,

Rob Reiner as Michael Stivic in the 1970s TV sitcom “All in the Family” (Facebook via The Kitsch Meow) By JAMES PONIEWOZIK Before red and blue America, before MAGA and the resistance, before our current blue-collar and white-collar political sorting, there was Archie Bunker and Michael Stivic. “All in the Family,” which stormed onto American TV sets in 1971, was a showcase for Carroll O’Connor as the blustering, bigoted Archie. But it takes two to have an argument. And as Mic

Rob Reiner, right, arrives with his wife Michele at the memorial services for Nora Ephron at Lincoln Center in New York, July 9, 2012. A son of the couple, Nick Reiner, 32, was arrested after the celebrated Hollywood director and his wife were found dead in their Los Angeles home on Sunday, according to online jail records viewed Monday. (Richard Perry/The New York Times) Monday. By JULIA JACOBS Rob Reiner, the son of a pioneering television comedian who became a popular sitc

Raul Malo, the Mavericks frontman, performs at a festival in Indio, Calif. on May 5, 2007. Malo, a lush-voiced singer whose expansive, Latin-inflected sound breathed new life into country music in the 1990s, died on Monday, Dec. 8, 2025 after a battle with colon cancer. He was 60. (Heidi Schumann/The New York Times) By BILL FRISKICS-WARREN Raul Malo, the big-voiced singer and principal songwriter for the Mavericks, a Grammy Award-winning band whose Latin-inflected sound helpe

“Tyler Perry’s Finding Joy” By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI Holiday movies are an escapist bunch, but this season, reality has a way of peeking through the cracks. Of course, the stories continue to have happy resolutions — don’t worry, the Grinch still doesn’t win — but instead of glittery princesses, mindless consumption and oblivious displays of wealth, we see people who struggle to live up to expectations or throw themselves into ludicrous schemes to pay their bills. It’s not li

During art classes at the Puerto Rico Children’s Hospital, the children and young people undergoing treatment for cancer not only created art but also expressed their emotions. By THE STAR STAFF A unique exhibition of 15 works of art created by pediatric oncology patients while undergoing treatment is now open at the island Capitol. “It fills me with great pride to announce the opening in the House of Representatives of this exhibition of artwork on canvas, created by childre

The International Salsa Museum in New York houses various pieces of memorabilia associated with El Gran Combo, including the jacket founder Rafael Ithier Natal wore during one of the group’s famed anniversary performances. By THE STAR STAFF The president of the International Salsa Museum in New York and the entity’s board of directors are mourning the passing of Rafael Ithier Natal, founder of El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico and mentor to hundreds of artists and musicians worldw