Je n'aime pas dans les vieux films américains quand les conducteurs ne regardent pas la route. Et de ratage en ratage, on s'habitue à ne jamais dépasser le stade du brouillon. La vie n'est que l'interminable répétition d'une représentation qui n'aura jamais lieu.
Well, here they are, my top twenty 2025 movies I saw last year. They are arranged in purely alphabetical order and this first post will feature the first ten of them.
Honorable Mentions: 28 Years Later; Companion; Superman; Together; Warfare
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Black Bag
Bring Her Back
Bugonia
Final Destination: Bloodlines
Frankenstein
Friendship
Good Boy
Hamnet
Heart Eyes
As I put together my best movies of the year list, it once again makes sense to kind of break them down into two lists: the best 2025 releases I saw in 2025 and the best pre-2025 releases I saw in 2025.
In this first post, I have the ten best pre-2025 releases I saw in 2025. This list includes some 2024 releases that I didn’t catch up to until calendar year 2025 and also a few movies from earlier years as well.
Honorable Mentions: Cop Hater (1958); Presence (2024)
Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
The Brutalist (2024)
A Complete Unknown (2024)
The Fall Guy (2024)
Monkey Man (2024)
Next of Kin (1982)
No Other Land (2024)
Nosferatu (2024)
The Suicide Squad (2021)
Watchmen (2009)