2025 Movie List - The Top 68 Movies of the Year

THE STANDOUTS (1) - This should go without saying, but these are all must-sees.

Final Destination: Bloodlines ***

THE GOOD (14) - These represent quality filmmaking all around.

Warfare ***
Black Bag ***
Dangerous Animals ***
Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror ***
Untold: Shooting Guards ***
One of Them Days ***
Nonnas ***
Drop ***
Summer of '69 ***
The Comeback Trail ***
The Twister: Caught in the Storm ***
It's All Gonna Break ***
We Beat the Dream Team ***
Dog Man **1/2

THE GOOD... BUT SHOULD'VE BEEN BETTERS (17) - Why weren't these good movies better? I don't really know. But they should've been. Hence the name of this section.

Sinners ***
Friendship **1/2
Thunderbolts **1/2
Bring Them Down **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
Heart Eyes **1/2
Novocaine **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 (11) - 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 ***
Fight or Flight **1/2
Kinda Pregnant **1/2
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera **1/2
The Gorge **1/2
G20 **1/2
Love Hurts **1/2
Death of a Unicorn **1/2

THE UNDERWHELMING DISAPPOINTMENTS (19) - Chalk it up to expectations, but these movies just didn't cut it for me.

Salvable **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 **
You're Cordially Invited **
Cleaner **
The Life of Chuck **
The Assessment **
Another Simple Favor **
Becoming Led Zeppelin **
Neighborhood Watch *1/2
The Monkey *1/2
Captain America: Brave New World *1/2
Clown in a Cornfield *1/2

THE BAD (6) - For better or worse, I just don't know what these movies were thinking.

Flight Risk *1/2
Mickey 17 *1/2
Holland *1/2
McVeigh *1/2
Back in Action *1/2
Borderline *

IN PROGRESS (0) - 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.

EMBARGOED (2) - Silence is golden... for now.

Mountainhead
Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy

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 (62): The Actor, The Alto Knights, April, Armand, Ash, The Ballad of Wallis Island, Bono: Stories of Surrender, Both Eyes Open, Brave the Dark, Caught By the Tides, Cheech and Chong's Last Movie, Electra, The Electric State, Everything's Going to Be Great, Ex-Husbands, Fountain of Youth, The Friend, The Gardener, Grand Theft Hamlet, Henry Johnson, Here Now, How to Train Your Dragon, Hung Up on a Dream: The Zombies Documentary, I'm Still Here, Inheritance, In the Lost Lands, The Legend of Ochi, Lilly, Lilo & Stitch, A Minecraft Movie, Mogwai: If the Stars Had Sound, My Dead Friend Zoe, A Nice Indian Boy, 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, The Ritual, Rosario, Rust, Screamboat, Seven Veils, The Sexiest Man in Winnipeg, Shadow Force, The Shrouds, Smurfs, Snow White, Tall Tales, Turn Me On, The Unbreakable Boy, Until Dawn, Vulcanizadora, The Wedding Banquet, When I'm Ready, Wick Is Pain, The Woman in the Yard

COMING SOON (24): 28 Years Later, Ballerina, Barron's Cove, Echo Valley, Eddington, Elio, F1, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Fear Street: Prom Queen, Hallow Road, Hurry Up Tomorrow, I Don't Understand You, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Jurassic World: Rebirth, Karate Kid: Legends, Materialists, M3GAN 2.0, The Phoenician Scheme, Predator: Killer of Killers, Sorry, Baby, Sovereign, Superman, Tornado, The Ugly Stepsister