We've Found The Darkest Movie Of 2025 — Here's Why You Need To Watch It [Fantastic Fest]

It seems we have moved on from movies about what it was like to live in the early days of lockdown and seeing the world pause to a halt and mostly ignore the severity of it (except no one told Ari Aster that). The movie is "Sirāt," the latest film by French-born Spanish filmmaker Óliver Laxe ("Fire Will Come," "You Are All Captains"), which won the Jury Prize at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival (to be fair, a festival known for celebrating sicko filmmaking) and was selected as Spain's entry to the Academy Awards. What follows is a haunting movie about found family, about the importance of music and interpersonal connections, about war brewing in the background, about the end of the world, and the darkest and most perfect encapsulation of 2025.

Author: staff@slashfilm.com (Rafael Motamayor)

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