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 (22) - These represent quality filmmaking all around.
Splitsville ***
Dangerous Animals ***
Weapons ***
Warfare ***
Black Bag ***
Predator: Killer of Killers ***
Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy ***
Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror ***
Untold: Shooting Guards ***
One of Them Days ***
Nonnas ***
Caught Stealing ***
Drop ***
Summer of '69 ***
The Comeback Trail ***
Echo Valley ***
Predators ***
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 (29) - 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 ***
Plainclothes ***
Night Always Comes **1/2
Dead of Winter **1/2
Superman **1/2
The Naked Gun **1/2
Thunderbolts **1/2
The Thursday Murder Club **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
Lurker **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 (16) - 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
Eenie Meanie **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
Nobody 2 **1/2
Love Hurts **1/2
Death of a Unicorn **1/2
THE UNDERWHELMING DISAPPOINTMENTS (33) - 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
Americana **1/2
Sovereign **1/2
Karate Kid: Legends **1/2
The Amateur **
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning **
The Long Walk **
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 Toxic Avenger *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 (13) - 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 *
Fixed *
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 (2) - Silence is golden... for now.
Secret Movie
Secret Movie 2
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 (117): 100 Nights of Hero, 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, Blue Moon, Bono: Stories of Surrender, Both Eyes Open, Brave the Dark, Bride Hard, Caught By the Tides, Champagne Problems, Cheech and Chong's Last Movie, Clemente, Deaf President Now!, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, East of Wall, Electra, The Electric State, Elio, Ella McCay, Eternity, Everything's Going to Be Great, Ex-Husbands, Fairyland, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Fountain of Youth, Freakier Friday, The Friend, The Gardener, Garden of Eden, Goodbye Jane, Grand Theft Hamlet, The Grateful Dead Movie, Hedda, 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, I Wish You All the Best, The Legend of Ochi, Lilly, Lilo & Stitch, Long Distance, Long Shadows, 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, Nouvelle Vague, 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, Primitive War, Queen of the Ring, Riefenstahl, The Ritual, Rosario, The Roses, Rust, Saint Clare, Sarah's Oil, Screamboat, Seven Veils, Sew Torn, The Sexiest Man in Winnipeg, Shadow Force, The Shrouds, Site, Sketch, Smurfs, Snow White, Song Sung Blue, Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, The Spongebob Movie: The Search for Squarepants, Stans, Straw, Tall Tales, The Thing with Feathers, The Threesome, Tornado, Trust, 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, The Wrong Paris, Xeno
COMING SOON (66): After the Hunt, aka Charlie Sheen, All of You, Anaconda, Anemone, Anniversary, Avatar: Fire and Ash, The Ballad of a Small Player, The Baltimorons, Black Phone 2, Bugonia, Christy, The Conjuring: Last Rites, Dead Man's Wire, Die, My Love, Dust Bunny, Eleanor the Great, Frankenstein, Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie, Good Boy, Good Fortune, Hamnet, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Highest 2 Lowest, Him, The Housemaid, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Is This Thing On?, It Was Just an Accident, Kiss of the Spider Woman, London Calling, The Lost Bus, Marty Supreme, The Mastermind, Now You See Me: Now You Don't, Oh. What. Fun., One Battle After Another, The Plague, Play Dirty, Predator: Badlands, Regretting You, Rental Family, Roofman, The Running Man, The Secret Agent, The Senior, Sentimental Value, Shelby Oaks, Shell, Silent Night, Deadly Night, Sisu: Road to Revenge, The Smashing Machine, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Steve, The Strangers: Chapter 2, Train Dreams, Traumatika, Tron: Ares, Twinless, The Twits, V/H/S/Halloween, Vicious, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Wicked: For Good, The Woman in Cabin 10, Zootopia 2
