I seem to have settled in at watching about 50 to 60 movies each year. I was exactly on the low end of that in 2025 with 50 movies. I caught 31 at home, 14 at a movie theater, 1 at the symphony, and (in an unusual record for me) 4 on airplanes.
Of everything I saw, 20 were actual 2025 releases. From a field of that size, listing the "best half" (top 10) I happened to see isn't always going to make sense. I won't pretend to claim that Drop was one of the 10 best movies of 2025 -- even if, for a fluffy writer's exercise of suspense in a confined space, it did work well as in-flight entertainment. That's why this year's list is going to be very short; while I generally enjoyed most of what I saw, there are really just four movies that I want to call out as "worth seeing, if you haven't":
None of these are going to be Oscar nominees. (Though if KPop Demon Hunters doesn't win Best Animated Feature...?) But I think they're all wildly entertaining, each in their own way.
As usual, I do plan to circle back and add to this list if I catch up on any other 2025 releases that feel deserving. But also, I'm so far avoiding most of the Oscar bait. During award season last year, I took a now-rare moment to bother writing a negative review, specifically about The Substance. In my comments, I noted that the movie may finally have broken me of the urge to see things I'm actively disinterested in only because they're in the award conversation. We'll see if that holds.
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