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Overlooked films shaped 2025 culture

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Culture critics across year-end roundups said overlooked films and unexpected pop-cultural moments — from celebrity deaths to viral controversies — defined 2025's cultural landscape.

The Guardian
The best films of 2025 … you may not have seen

From an old-fashioned western to a charming baseball comedy, Guardian writers pick their favourite lesser-known films of the year The pick of 2025’s film, music, art, TV, stage and games, chosen by Guardian critics and writers There’s something almost self-fulfilling about Endless Cookie being an overlooked gem. The crudely animated Canadian documentary , directed by two half-brothers occupying separate worlds between Toronto and Shamattawa First Nation, lives in and finds its voice in the ellipses between typical narrative beats. A fart, a toilet flush, mumbling asides and the squabble of children sharing the same room as Seth Scriver (who is white) he interviews his Indigenous brother Pete are among the overlooked moments that are usually left on a cutting-room floor. But they resonate in Endless Cookie, like life refusing to be silenced in a surrealist self-portraiture that delights in colouring outside the lines. Institutional violence and neglect, intergenerational trauma and over-policing in Indigenous communities are all visible, but often kept at bay. Endless Cookie instead finds its strength and joys in the ebb and flow of community, the humour of its digressions and the dreams these characters latch on to and empower amid the harsh realities surrounding them. These are the things we often miss; the reasons to seek out Endless Cookie. Radheyan Simonpillai Continue reading. . .

The best films of 2025 … you may not have seen
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El Pais
Goodbye to 2025: celebrities thank fans after a year of breakups, drama, weddings, surprises and some joy

The viral moments in space by Katy Perry or on Earth by a couple who stopped being anonymous in seconds, the tragic deaths of Rob Reiner and Gene Hackman, Sean Combs's trial, the breakup of Los Javis, and other events that have marked the past 12 months.

Goodbye to 2025: celebrities thank fans after a year of breakups, drama, weddings, surprises and some joy
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