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With 2025 just about in the rearview window, tis the moment to take stock of what worked in 2025 before turning ahead to the most anticipated movies of 2026. As usual, the films I responded to most last year weren’t those trying to be agreeable or broad or endlessly franchisable.

Before viewers returned to Pandora in Avatar: Fire and Ash, they quickly checked in with an old friend. The first teaser for Avengers: Doomsday, which played before James Cameron‘s latest sci-fi adventure, featured no epic battles, no scenes of superheroes saving the day, not even a quippy one-liner. The one

Last Christmas, you didn’t watch Last Christmas. And that was probably the same the Christmas before that and the Christmas before that. Immediately after the holiday rom-com released in 2019, it was mocked by moviegoers, who derided star Emilia Clarke‘s decidedly non-Daenerys role as a messy Englishwoman with a bad

For years, studios and networks have constructed expensive, temporary activations at fan events like San Diego Comic-Con, or introduced touring experiences featuring beloved IP. As Netflix does, they went bigger, fittingly, in Texas, by letting fans step inside their favorite stories at a new 100,000-square-foot entertainment venue, Netflix House Dallas.

Did you know that Walmart’s online store actually carries graded comics? It’s true! And the line-up of box sets and multi-volume collections are just the thing for that last minute gift for that comic-loving family member who’s coming in from out of town next week. Don’t sleep on these great