Time gets ever more precious around holiday time, requiring you to be a bit more discerning about what you watch. So we’re trying to make it easier for you with a power ranking of 10 unmissable 2025 releases, with a bonus list of some older films totally worth watching.

Here’s our roundup.

“Hamnet”: Chloé Zhao’s fifth feature rips your heart out. Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s novel — a book club favorite — it succeeds on two levels. First, by illustrating how a tragedy changed forever the lives of Agnes (Jessie Buckley) and William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal), and second, relating how that devastating event served as the cathartic inspiration for one of the most legendary dramatic works of all time. The performances overwhelm you. Buckley makes you feel her incessant pain and grief while Mes

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