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‘A belter of a movie’
Guardian readers’ best films of 2025 so far

From repressive military regimes in I’m Still Here to funny French teenage delinquents in Holy Cow, readers pick films that have moved them this year

Picks of the week

Ranked!
Mel Brooks turns 99: the comedy icon’s best films

The return of the soundtrack
Original movie music has made a comeback

Gun for hire
What does Denis Villeneuve as director tell us about the new Bond?

Gareth Edwards
‘The script didn’t have Jurassic World on the front’

Al Pacino
How he got his Modigliani film off the ground after 30 years

First Steps to ruin
Is Marvel’s Fantastic Four finally about to let the bad guys win?

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Peter Bradshaw's film of the week

F1 the Movie
Spectacular macho melodrama handles Brad Pitt with panache

The cherubic sixtysomething stars as a supercool old-school driver returning 30 years after a near-fatal crash to break all the rules of Formula One racing

This week's reviews

Reconstruction
Teens re-enact crimes for state-driven pantomime in communist Romania

Teens re-enact crimes for state-driven pantomime in communist Romania

Sudan, Remember Us
Vividness and vibrancy in intense account of Khartoum uprising

Vividness and vibrancy in intense account of Khartoum uprising

From Hilde, With Love
Anti-Nazi activist’s heartwrenching true story

Anti-Nazi activist’s heartwrenching true story

Allo la France
Romance of French phone booths exposes funding cuts to rural services

Romance of French phone booths exposes funding cuts to rural services

Perfumed With Mint
Poetic Egyptian stoner flick reveals inertia of failed revolution

Poetic Egyptian stoner flick reveals inertia of failed revolution