Best Films of 2025

1. One Battle, After Another

2. No Other Choice

3. It Was Just an Accident

4. Afternoons of Solitude

5. Sinners

6. Secret Agent

7. Marty Supreme

8. BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions

9. Sentimental Value

10. Bugonia

11. Frankenstein

12. Hamnet

13. F1

14. Cloud

15. Armand

16. Misericordia

17. Grand Tour

18. Sister Midnight

19. Night Call

20. Nouvelle Vague

Exquisite Frames: No Other Choice - Park Chan-wook

What I Watched Last Month

• Cover Up – Mark Obenhaus, Laura Poitras

• Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere – Scott Cooper

• Misericordia – Alain Guiraudie

• Blue Moon – Richard Linklater

• Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrand Story – Skye Borgman

• The Running Man – Edgar Wright

• Marty Supreme – Josh Safdie

• Not Without Hope – Joe Carnahan

• Hallow Road – Babak Anvari

• Andrea Bocelli 30: A Celebration – Sam Wrench

• 1408: Director’s Cut – Mikael Håfström

• Breakdown: 1975 – Morgan Neville

• Dust Bunny – Bryan Fuller

• ParaNorman – Chris Butler, Sam Fell

• Rebuilding – Max Walker-Silverman

• The Plague – Charlie Polinger

• Night Patrol – Ryan Prows

• Elway – Ken Rodgers, Chris Weaver

• The Hunting Wives (Season 1) – Rebecca Cutter

• The Making of: The Shining – Vivian Kubrick

• The Secret Agent – Kleber Mendonça Filho

• Rental Family – Hikari

• The Grand Tour – Miguel Gomes

• Vanilla Sky – Cameron Crowe

• The Dutchman – Andre Gaines

• The Color of Pomegranates – Sergei Parajanov

• The Rip – Joe Carnahan

• Greenland 2: Migration – Ric Roman Waugh

• K Pop Demon Hunters – Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans

• No Other Choice – Park Chan-wook

• Shadow Force – Joe Carnahan

• The Housemaid – Paul Feig

• Nobody 2 – Timo Tjahjanto

• Secret Mall Apartment – Jeremy Workman

• My Father, the BTK Killer – Skye Borgman

• Stans – Steven Leckart

JFK-LAX 1 & 2

What I Watched Last Month

• Jurassic Park: Rebirth – Gareth Edwards

• Muzzle: City of Wolves – John Stalberg Jr.

• Keeper – Osgood Perkins

• Dogma – Kevin Smith

• MegaDoc – Mike Figgis

• Sentimental Value – Joachim Trier

• Jay Kelly – Noah Baumbach

• Sinners – Ryan Coogler

• Bugonia – Yorgos Lanthimos

• Fackham Hall – Jim O'Hanlon

• Sean Combs: The Reckoning – Alexandria Stapleton

• Turbulence – Claudio Fäh

• 100 Nights of Hero – Julia Jackman

• The New Yorker at 100 – Marshall Curry

• Now You See Me: No You Don’t – Ruben Fleischer

• Adventures in Moviegoing: Sofia Coppola

• It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi

• Afternoon of Solitude – Albert Serra

• The Mastermind – Kelly Reichardt

• Roofman – Derek Cianfrance

• Frankenstein: The Anatomy – Guillermo del Toro, Javier Soto

• Cloud – Kiyoshi Kurosawa

• Lost in Translation – Sofia Coppola

• Spotlight on Ringo Lam

• The Making of Jay Kelly

• Heads of State – Ilya Naishuller

• Southpaw – Antoine Fuqua

• Drugstore Cowboy – Gus Van Sant

• Materialists – Celine Song

• Shadow Force – Joe Carnahan

• Nouvelle Vague – Richard Linklater

• Wake Up Deadman – Rian Johnson

• Dave Chappelle: The Unstoppable Nigger Act – Rikki Hughes

• Spotlight on Jessie Maple

• The Alabama Solution – Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman

• Sangre Del Toro – Yves Montmayeur

• Caught Stealing – Darren Aronofsky

• Hamnet – Chloé Zhao

• Predators – David Osit

• The Drowning Pool – Stuart Rosenberg

• A Message from Akira Kurosawa: For Beautiful Movies – Hisao Kurosawa

• Caught by the Tides – Jia Zhangke

• Hallow Road – Babak Anvari

• Adventures in Moviegoing: The Safdie Brothers

• Wolf of Wall Street – Martin Scorsese

• Marty Supreme – Josh Safdie

• The Vanishing – George Sluizer

A smidge above freezing

Eminent Domain

What I Watched Last Month

• Biggest Heist Ever – Chris Smith

• Ballad of a Small Time Player – Edward Berger

• Spotlight – Tom McCarthy

• The Smashing Machine – Benny Safdie

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Miloš Forman

• Snowden – Oliver Stone

• Under the Stars – Michelle Danner

• Kiss of the Spider Woman –Bill Condon

• End of Watch – David Ayer

• Barry Lyndon – Stanley Kubrick

• Morning Show: Season 4

• If I Had Legs I’d Kick You – Mary Bronstein

• Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe – Cosima Spender

• Slow Horses: Season 4

• The Grey – Joe Carnahan

• Frankenstein – Guillermo del Toro

• Sign o’ the Times – Prince

• Being Eddie – Angus Wall

• Anniversary – Jan Komasa

• Trap House – Michael Dowse

• Selena Y Los Dinos: A Family's Legacy – Isabel Castro

• Boogie Nights – Paul Thomas Anderson

• Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy

• The Pickup – Tim Story

• Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost – Ben Stiller

• The Big Short – Adam McKay

• Blue Sun Palace – Constance Tsang

• The Killer – David Fincher

• Train Dreams – Clint Bentley

Blame It on the Rain

What I Watched Last Month

• Vice is Broke – Eddie Huang

• Heathers – Michael Lehmann

• Twinless – James Sweeney

• Freakier Friday – Nisha Ganatra

• Caught Stealing – Darren Aronofsky

• Midnight Run – Martin Brest

• F1 – Joseph Kosinski

• Vicious – Bryan Bertino

• The Long Walk – Frances Lawrence

• Everything’s Going to Be Great – Jon S. Baird

• Under the Skin – Jonathan Glazer

• Bone Lake – Mercedes Bryce Morgan

• Your Name. – Makoto Shinkai

• Coyotes – Colin Minihan

• Afterburn – J. J. Perry

• Chinatown – Roman Polanski

• John Candy: I Like Me – Colin Hanks

• Mr. Scorsese – Rebecca Miller

• House of Frankenstein – Erle C. Kenton

• Son of Dracula – Robert Siodmak

• The Girl Who Leapt Through Time – Mamoru Hosoda

• The Smashing Machine – Benny Safdie

• Ice Fall – Stefan Ruzowitzky

• Good Fortune – Aziz Ansari

• House of Dynamite – Kathryn Bigelow

• Perfect Neighbor – Geeta Gandbhir

• Fairyland – Andrew Durham

• Killing Faith – Ned Crowley

• Hurry Up, Tomorrow – Trey Edward Shults

Sam's Clam Bar

What I Watched Last Month

• Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa – Lucy Walker

• After We Collided – Roger Kumble

• Friendship – Andrew DeYoung

• Code 3 – Christopher Leone

• Relay – David Mackenzie

• Americana – Tony Tost

• Prison on Fire II – Ringo Lam

• The Poker House – Lori Petty

• Highest 2 Lowest – Spike Lee

• Architecton – Victor Kossakovsky

• The Swordsman – Ching Siu-tung

• The Swordsman II – Ching Siu-tung

• Swordsman III: The East is Red – Ching Siu-tung, Raymond Lee

• Inside Man – Spike Lee

• Preparation for the Next Life – Bing Liu

• Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight – Embeth Davidtz

• No Country for Old Men – Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

• The Knife – Nnamdi Asomugha

• The Sound of Music – Robert Wise

• The Cut – Sean Ellis

• Adulthood – Alex WInter

• Splitsville – Michael Angelo Covino

• aka Charlie Sheen – Andrew Renzi

• Jimmy and Stiggs – Joe Begos

• The Prestige – Christopher Nolan

• Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist – Alexandre O. Philippe

• Spinal Tap: The End Continues – Rob Reiner

• James Gray and Sean Fennessey on Sorcerer

• Good Night, And Good Luck: Live from Broadway – Micah Bickham, David Cromer

• One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson

Hangin' at Shangri La

What I Watched Last Month

• A Chinese Ghost Story 2 – Ching Siu-tung

• A Chinese Ghost Story 3 – Ching Siu-tung, Tsui Hark

• Friendship – Andrew DeYoung

• Wolf Children – Mamoru Hosoda

• Quarterbacks: Season 2

• Bullet in the Head – John Woo

• Under the Skin – Jonathan Glazer

• Uncut Gems – Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie

• Hush (Shush Cut) – Mike Flanagan

• Robin and the Hoods – Phil Hawkins

• The Home – James DeMonaco

• She Rides Shotgun – Nick Rowland

• Descendent – Peter Cilella

• House of Eden – KallMeKris

• Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning – Christopher McQuarrie

• Devo – Chris Smith

• Eddington – Ari Aster

• Cypress Hill: Live at the Royal Albert Hall – James Barnes

• Girls Aloud: Girls Aloud Show – Liz Clare

• Prison on Fire – Ringo Lam

• Folktales – Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing

• This is Spinal Tap – Rob Reiner

• Relay – David Mackenzie

• Heads of State – Ilya Naishuller

• Tsukiji Wonderland – Naotarō Endō, Naotaro Endo

• Jaws – Steven Spielberg

One Battle After Another - Paul Thomas Anderson

What I Watched Last Month

• The Bear: Season 4

• Air America – Roger Spottiswoode

• A Better Tomorrow – John Woo

• A Better Tomorrow II – John Woo

• A Better Tomorrow III – Tsui Hark

• Notebook on Cities and Clothes – Wim Wenders

• F1 – Joseph Kosinski

• Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh

• In The Mood for Love – Wong Kar-wai

• Sasquatch Sunset – Nathan Zellner, David Zellner

• Everything’s Going to Be Great – Jon S. Baird

• 40 Acres – RT!

• The Killer – John Woo

• The Materialists – Celine Song

• Dark Winds (Season 3)

• Peking Opera Blues – Tsui Hark

• Tornado – John Maclean

• Frailty – Bill Paxton

• Dangerous Animals – Sean Byrne

• Armand – Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel

• The Parent Trap – Nancy Meyers

• Julian Schnabel / David Bowie on Charlie Rose

• Jefferey Wright on Basquiat (Criterion)

• Freaky Friday – Mark Waters

• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou – Wes Anderson

• Hot Milk – Rebecca Lenkiewicz

• Pacification – Albert Serra

• A Chinese Ghost Story – Ching Siu-tung

• A Chinese Odyssey (Part 1): Pandora’s Box – Jeffrey Lau

• A Chinese Odyssey (Part 2): Cinderella – Jeffrey Lau

• Benjamin Bat – Patrick Raats

• Lethal Weapon – Richard Donner

• Casa Bonita Mi Amor – Arthur Bradford

Downtown Florence, S.C.

What I Watched Last Month

• No Way Out – Roger Donaldson

• Clown in a Cornfield – Eli Craig

• The Rehearsal: Season 2

• Untold: Shooting Guards – Walter Thompson-Hernandez

• This Island Earth – Joseph M. Newman, Jack Arnold

• Sweet Liberty – Alan Alda

• Salt – Phillip Noyce

• Things Like This – Max Talisman

• Enemy – Denis Villeneuve

• In Bruges – Martin McDonagh

• My Name is Alfred Hitchcock – Mark Cousins

• Wick is Pain – Jeffrey Doe

• Hard Boiled – John Woo

• The Swimmer – Frank Perry

• Superior Fire Power: Making of Aliens – Charles de Lauzirika

• Wolfgang – David Gelb

• City on Fire – Ringo Lam

• Off the Grid – Johnny Martin

• The Fall – Tarsem

• Sister Midnight – Karan Kandhari

• A Jar Full of Christmas – Candice T. Cain

• Walking with Dinosaurs – Stephen Cooter, Owen Gower, Tom Hewitson

• Doctor Who: Series 14 – Russell T Davies

• The Making of Robocop – Drew Cummings

• Ballerina: from the World of John Wick – Len Wiseman

• Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted – Isaac Gale, Ryan Olson, David McMurry

• Tornado – John Maclean