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Now that the dust has settled following the 2024 ceremony, it's time to turn attention toward the 2025 Oscars and the movies that are competing to secure a Best Picture nomination and campaign for a win. As surprising nominees and winners at the 2024 Oscars proved, predicting the 2025 results so far ahead of time is no easy task. However, some serious contenders for awards season have emerged as Oscars 2025 predictions for all categories begin to take shape. This includes a strong group of movies competing for one of ten Best Picture nominations.

Even heading into the 2025 Oscars season, some movies were looked at early on as major contenders. Dune: Part Two is eligible after being delayed from its original 2023 release date, while new movies from Luca Guadagnino, Yorgos Lanthimios, Sean Baker, Edward Berger, Ridley Scott, Steve McQueen, and Clint Eastwood were looked at as contenders to watch out for. Of course, awards season...

The Room Next Door is a sharp, solemn, and darkly funny English-language feature-length debut by filmmaker Pedro Almodvar. As it stands, his last two titles the short films The Human Voice (2020) and Strange Way of Life (2023) were also shot in English. And if they were teasers to a new level for Almodvar, then The Room Next Door is a veritable confirmation of many more exciting things to come from the Spanish writer and director, who is now in his 50th year behind the camera. His film, which just made its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, contemplates death, perhaps even embraces it, but in doing so, Almodvar effectively underscores the need to embrace life and joy.

Based on the novel What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez, The Room Next Door stars Julianne Moore as best-selling author Ingrid, who finds herself in New York City to...

It's always fascinating to see a master filmmaker work in a different language, especially when their work is singular. Tone, personality, and rhythm can come across very differently, and sometimes be difficult to recreate, in a new cultural context. Some take to it right away, others require time to find their footing. Pedro Almodvar's first feature-length film in English, The Room Next Door , is somewhere in between. The Spanish director's fingerprint is there, undoubtedly. But the movie feels strangely incomplete, as if made with one hand tied behind his back.

The Room Next Door

Director Pedro AlmodovarRelease Date December 20, 2024Writers Sigrid Nunez, Pedro AlmodovarCast Paolo Luka No, Francesc Tort, Alvise Rigo, Anton Antoniadis, Sarah Demeestere, Esther McGregor, Victoria Luengo, Tom Johnson, Alex Hgh Andersen, Melina Matthews, Juan Diego Botto, Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, Raul Arvalo, Alessandro Nivola, John TurturroCharacter(s) Ingrid, MarthaRuntime 106 MinutesGenres Drama

Adapted from What Are You Going...