Best TV Shows of 2025
Many of the year’s best series seemed to be in conversation with one another, including “Severance,” “The Pitt,” “Andor,” “Pluribus,” “The Lowdown” and others.
Published: December 4, 2025, 5:09 pm
‘Jay Kelly’ Review: All His Memories Are Movies
Noah Baumbach’s latest film has George Clooney playing the last of the old-school movie stars.
Published: December 4, 2025, 5:48 pm
Eurovision Is in Turmoil as Israel’s Participation Leads to Boycott
The Netherlands and Slovenia also said they would not take part in next year’s contest, meant to be its celebratory 70th edition.
Published: December 4, 2025, 9:56 pm
Jennifer Packer: Art at the Cosmic Edges of Longing
Where does a painter’s grief go? Onto the canvas, in spectral realms.
Published: December 4, 2025, 6:26 pm
Steve Cropper: 9 Essential Songs
An architect of Memphis soul, Cropper made his guitar sing and sting. And as a songwriter, he collaborated on more than a few indelible anthems.
Published: December 4, 2025, 6:43 pm
Arthur Szyk: Spotlight Returns to a Forgotten ‘Soldier in Art’
An exhibition reckons with the revived legacy of an immigrant artist who created ornate illuminations and scathing caricatures of Nazism and the horrors of the Holocaust.
Published: December 4, 2025, 5:44 pm
Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta’s Queer Cult Classic Debuts in New York
“The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions” is a music theater piece based on Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta’s 1970s book.
Published: December 4, 2025, 5:22 pm
‘Little Trouble Girls’ Review: Teenage Infatuation
Despite awareness of taboos, two girls in a Catholic school choir are drawn to each other in this feature debut by the Slovenian director Urska Djukic.
Published: December 4, 2025, 10:03 am
‘La Grazia’ Review: Paolo Sorrentino’s Portrait of Waning Power
The director reunites with Toni Servillo, casting the astonishingly expressive actor as a fictional Italian president facing the end of his term.
Published: December 4, 2025, 4:18 pm
In Ephrat Asherie’s ‘Shadow Cities,’ Club Dance Meets Latin Jazz
Ephrat Asherie’s “Shadow Cities” pairs her group’s adept dancers with live music by the great Arturo O’Farrill.
Published: December 4, 2025, 10:34 pm
Drag Antics and ‘a Political Bomb’: Bringing ‘La Cage aux Folles’ Home
The theater that drew acclaim last year for “Les Misérables” is hoping Paris can accept a new “Americano-French musical.”
Published: December 4, 2025, 12:13 pm
Art Gallery Shows to See in December
This week in Newly Reviewed, Martha Schwendener covers Meredith James’s anti-architecture monument, Franz Gertsch’s take on Patti Smith, Ragnar Kjartansson’s postcard ode, Analivia Cordeiro’s merging bodies and Guanyu Xu’s hovering photos.
Published: December 4, 2025, 11:50 pm
Rebecca Heineman, Transgender Video Game Pioneer, Dies at 62
Fleeing an abusive home life, she went on to win a national Space Invaders tournament, taught herself to program and left a trail of popular games in her wake.
Published: December 4, 2025, 8:21 pm
Inside the Alvin Ailey Gala: Ciara, the Red Carpet and a Madonna Dance Party
Alvin Ailey’s annual gala began with suits and bare chests on the red carpet and ended with dancing to Madonna’s “Like a Prayer.”
Published: December 4, 2025, 6:20 pm
‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ Review: The Robots Are Malfunctioning (Again)
The bigger-budget follow-up to last year’s abysmal cult horror hit about haunted animatronic puppets is, at best, marginally scarier.
Published: December 4, 2025, 6:07 pm
‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Review: It’s a Hit (Reprise)
The Tony-winning Broadway revival of the notorious Stephen Sondheim flop, starring Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez, gets a live stage recording for the big screen.
Published: December 4, 2025, 10:03 am
‘Rosemead’ Review: A Mother and Her Troubled Son
In this drama, Lucy Liu offers a compassionate and grim portrait of a parent at the end of her rope.
Published: December 4, 2025, 3:20 pm
‘Happy Holidays’ Review: Fissures in a Palestinian Family
In Scandar Copti’s film, set in Haifa, Israel, secrets and deceptions strain relationships.
Published: December 4, 2025, 10:03 am
‘Fackham Hall’ Review: Keep Calm and Chuckle On
Clever sight gags jazz up this “Downton Abbey” sendup about a bookish aristocrat under pressure to marry her first cousin.
Published: December 4, 2025, 10:03 am
‘Endless Cookie’ Review: An Animated Family History
Two filmmaking brothers trade tales in a tonally singular documentary.
Published: December 4, 2025, 10:02 am
‘The Chronology of Water’ Review: Saved by the Pen
Kristen Stewart’s feature directing debut stars a riveting Imogen Poots in an uncomfortably visceral tale of abuse and addiction.
Published: December 4, 2025, 10:02 am
‘100 Nights of Hero’ Review: A Feminist Fairy Tale
This flawed but endearing film stars Emma Corrin as a protective maid and features Charli XCX as a sister with a secret.
Published: December 4, 2025, 10:02 am
Late Night Thinks the War on Drugs Has Gone a Bit Off the Rails
The president who says he’s killing traffickers “pardoned a man who smuggled in enough cocaine to give every American resting Kash Patel face,” Josh Johnson said.
Published: December 4, 2025, 7:01 am
Steve Cropper, Guitarist, Songwriter and Shaper of Memphis Soul Music, Dies at 84
As a member of Booker T. & the MG’s and as a producer, he played a pivotal role in the rise of Stax Records, a storied force in R&B in the 1960s and ’70s.
Published: December 4, 2025, 11:19 pm
Mel Leipzig, Painter Called the ‘Chekhov of Trenton,’ Dies at 90
He put fellow New Jerseyans at the center of his work, and a critic praised the “mysterious emotional tensions” in his pictures of ordinary people.
Published: December 4, 2025, 11:32 pm
Mormon Women Are Taking Over Our Screens
Across reality shows, social media and best-selling books, women raised in the church have increased its profile across pop culture.
Published: December 4, 2025, 7:28 pm
A Skating Rink Was Built Around a Luciano Pavarotti Statue. People Aren’t Thrilled.
“Nessun Dorma?” More like “Ice, Ice Baby,” as a statue in Italy is overshadowed.
Published: December 4, 2025, 6:14 pm
Researchers Discover the Shocking Age of the Mysterious Pecos River Rock Art
The murals were painted on limestone canyon walls, in the same style, over the span of four millennia
Published: December 4, 2025, 7:44 pm
Fabergé Egg Gifted by Russia's Last Czar Breaks World Record, Selling for $30.2 Million at Auction
For the third time in its history, the Winter Egg is now the most valuable Fabergé item ever sold
Published: December 4, 2025, 7:31 pm
This Revolutionary but Largely Forgotten Video Recorder Debuted 50 Years Ago. Devoted Fans Say the Machine Had the Best Quality of Its Time
Tech lovers continue to tout the superior resolution of Sony’s Betamax—even though it became obsolete after VHS overtook it
Published: December 4, 2025, 6:17 pm
Here’s What the World Health Organization Had to Say About GLP-1s in its First-Ever Guideline on the Drugs
The health agency supports the long-term use of the medications in combination with a healthy diet and exercise, and calls for equitable access to the drugs
Published: December 4, 2025, 5:00 pm
Claude, San Francisco's Beloved Albino Alligator and 'Unofficial Mascot,' Dies at Age 30
Veterinarians will conduct a full exam and necropsy to determine the cause of death, but Claude had been undergoing treatment for a suspected infection in recent weeks
Published: December 4, 2025, 3:03 pm
Archaeologists Say These Conch Shells May Have Been Used as Early Musical Instruments 6,000 Years Ago
New research suggests that a collection of conch shells unearthed in Spain may have once produced melodies, in addition to enabling communication across long distances
Published: December 4, 2025, 2:00 pm
The Astronomical Problem of Space Junk
Chunks of satellites and pieces of debris falling from space are causing trouble down here on Earth
Published: December 4, 2025, 12:00 pm
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