THE STANDOUTS (5) - This should go without saying, but these are all must-sees.
Final Destination: Bloodlines ***
The Ugly Stepsister ***
Together ***
F1 ***
Night Call ***
THE GOOD (19) - These represent quality filmmaking all around.
Warfare ***
Black Bag ***
Dangerous Animals ***
Weapons ***
Predator: Killer of Killers ***
Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy ***
Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror ***
Untold: Shooting Guards ***
One of Them Days ***
Nonnas ***
Drop ***
Summer of '69 ***
The Comeback Trail ***
Echo Valley ***
The Twister: Caught in the Storm ***
It's All Gonna Break ***
We Beat the Dream Team ***
I Don't Understand You **1/2
Dog Man **1/2
THE GOOD... BUT SHOULD'VE BEEN BETTERS (24) - Why weren't these good movies better? I don't really know. But they should've been. Hence the name of this section.
Materialists ***
Sinners ***
Superman **1/2
The Naked Gun **1/2
Thunderbolts **1/2
The Fantastic Four: First Steps **1/2
Friendship **1/2
Bring Them Down **1/2
Inside **1/2
Companion **1/2
Sacramento **1/2
Last Breath **1/2
The Surfer **1/2
Sharp Corner **1/2
Eephus **1/2
The Luckiest Man in America **1/2
Jurassic World Rebirth **1/2
Heart Eyes **1/2
Novocaine **1/2
A Desert **1/2
Untold: The Fall of Favre **1/2
Untold: The Liver King **1/2
A Deadly American Marriage **1/2
Chaos: The Manson Murders **1/2
THE GUILTY PLEASURES (14) - These are movies that I shouldn't like but do, for one reason or another. I only feel ashamed because the Internet tells me I'm supposed to.
Locked ***
A Working Man ***
Freaky Tales ***
Opus ***
Fear Street: Prom Queen **1/2
Heads of State **1/2
Fight or Flight **1/2
Kinda Pregnant **1/2
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera **1/2
The Gorge **1/2
G20 **1/2
Barron's Cove **1/2
Love Hurts **1/2
Death of a Unicorn **1/2
THE UNDERWHELMING DISAPPOINTMENTS (30) - Chalk it up to expectations, but these movies just didn't cut it for me.
Eddington **1/2
Salvable **1/2
She Rides Shotgun **1/2
Sovereign **1/2
Karate Kid: Legends **1/2
The Amateur **
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning **
Havoc **
The Accountant 2 **
The Rule of Jenny Pen **
Wolf Man **
O'Dessa **
Bring Her Back **
The Phoenician Scheme **
You're Cordially Invited **
Ballerina **
Cleaner **
The Life of Chuck **
The Assessment **
Another Simple Favor **
Becoming Led Zeppelin **
Sorry, Baby **
Neighborhood Watch *1/2
28 Years Later *1/2
The Monkey *1/2
The Pickup *1/2
Captain America: Brave New World *1/2
Until Dawn *1/2
Clown in a Cornfield *1/2
Happy Gilmore 2 *
THE BAD (12) - For better or worse, I just don't know what these movies were thinking.
Flight Risk *1/2
Mickey 17 *1/2
Hurry Up Tomorrow *1/2
I Know What You Did Last Summer *1/2
Holland *1/2
McVeigh *1/2
Back in Action *1/2
Mountainhead *
Borderline *
Stealing Pulp Fiction *
M3GAN 2.0 1/2*
Please Don't Feed the Children 1/2*
IN PROGRESS (1) - I started watching these, but I never quite finished. Make of that what you will, but not always. Sometimes, it's just a matter of viewing circumstances.
Titan: The Oceangate Submersible Disaster (25 minutes)
EMBARGOED (1) - Silence is golden... for now.
Secret Movie
DON'T FORGET (11) - I first saw these 2025 movies a while back. This list is for me, so I don't forget them.
Relay ***
Presence ***
The Cut ***
Magazine Dreams **1/2
Riff Raff **1/2
Matt and Mara **1/2
Eden **
The Damned **
AUM: The Cult at the End of the World **
It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This 1/2*
Ick 1/2*
OOPS, I MISSED (93): The Actor, Adult Children, A Little Prayer, The Alto Knights, April, Architecton, Armand, Ash, The Bad Guys 2, The Ballad of Wallis Island, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, Bono: Stories of Surrender, Both Eyes Open, Brave the Dark, Bride Hard, Caught By the Tides, Cheech and Chong's Last Movie, Clemente, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, East of Wall, Electra, The Electric State, Elio, Everything's Going to Be Great, Ex-Husbands, Fountain of Youth, Freakier Friday, The Friend, The Gardener, Grand Theft Hamlet, The Grateful Dead Movie, Henry Johnson, Here Now, The Home, Honey Don't, Hot Milk, How to Train Your Dragon, Hung Up on a Dream: The Zombies Documentary, Ice Road: Vengeance, I'm Still Here, Inheritance, In the Lost Lands, The Legend of Ochi, Lilly, Lilo & Stitch, Long Distance, Love, Brooklyn, The Map That Leads to You, A Minecraft Movie, Mogwai: If the Stars Had Sound, My Dead Friend Zoe, Ne Zha II, A Nice Indian Boy, Oh, Hi, The Old Guard 2, Old Guy, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Paddington in Peru, The Parenting, Parthenope, Pavements, Pee-wee as Himself, The Penguin Lessons, Popeye the Slayer Man, Queen of the Ring, Riefenstahl, The Ritual, Rosario, Rust, Saint Clare, Screamboat, Seven Veils, Sew Torn, The Sexiest Man in Winnipeg, Shadow Force, The Shrouds, Site, Smurfs, Snow White, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, Stans, Straw, Tall Tales, Tornado, Turn Me On, The Unbreakable Boy, Vulcanizadora, Waltzing with Brando, War of the Worlds, The Wedding Banquet, When I'm Ready, Wick Is Pain, The Woman in the Yard, Xeno
COMING SOON (30): Americana, Anemone, The Baltimorons, Caught Stealing, The Conjuring: Last Rites, The Dead of Winter, Eenie Meanie, Fixed, Garden of Eden, Highest 2 Lowest, Him, London Calling, The Long Walk, Lurker, Night Always Comes, Nobody 2, One Battle After Another, Predators, The Roses, The Senior, Sketch, The Smashing Machine, Splitsville, The Strangers: Chapter 2, The Threesome, The Thursday Murder Club, The Toxic Avenger, Trust, Twinless
