Even among those of us who believe movies are the perfect art form , movies themselves are rarely perfect. That’s where actors come in: sometimes a terrific performance becomes the heart of a picture, even a flawed one. Actors are, and forever will be, chief among the reasons we care about the movies in the first place. Here’s a sampling of the performances, including both supporting and lead, I loved best in 2025. Actors forever!
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Kirsten Dunst, Roofman
A woman who falls in love with a con man is often treated as an object of pity, a person who just wasn’t smart enough to see the truth of the person standing before her. In Derek Cianfrance’s underappreciated Roofman , Dunst—as Leigh, a woman who falls for Channing Tatum’s Je

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