Holidays are a great time to catch up on the year's best films, whether streaming at home or heading to a movie theater.

Jeffrey Brown recently sat down with two film critics who shared their top picks of the year.

It's part of our arts and culture series, Canvas.

It's that time of the year when we spotlight some of 2025's best movies, from big blockbusters to a few

hidden gems that you might have missed. For that, I'm joined by Linda Holmes, host of NPR's

Pop Culture Happy Hour, and Mike Sargent, host of the podcast, Brown and Black, and co-president

of the Black Film Critics Circle. And it's nice to see both of you again. Thanks for joining us.

Let's start with some of the bigger movies of the year. Linda, you want to start? Yeah. To me,

movie of the year in a few ways is sinners, which is from Ryan Coogler. It's about twin brothers,

played by Michael B. Jordan, who end up having to

battle some vampires. The vampires is different. Maybe the worst kind. The soul gets stuck in the

body. Not only do, I think it's a really, really good movie, but it's also a really good story

of a movie. It's really a situation where Coogler, I think, was able to get the deal that he wanted to make the movie

he really wanted to make.

It is original.

It is not from existing intellectual property.

It felt completely fresh to me.

Okay, how about one more while you're at it?

Yeah.

I always try to give a little bit of love to the superhero genre when it does a good job.

Why not?

I think this year's Superman was pretty good.

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