BEST MOVIES OF 2025
2025 offered cinephiles another excellent slate of remarkable and noteworthy films. Hollywood and the American movie machine churned out a new genre classic, a bonkers, unconventional biopic about ping pong, and one of the best movie made in several years, among many other great entries. The rest of the world delivered an impressive catalogue including the best effort yet from a rising Norwegian star, and spectacular new visions from two well-established foreign auteurs. We also got a front seat to the long-awaited renaissance of feature-length comedy. I would say this is the best year for theatre yuks since 2010 and the box office would indicated that audiences were hungry for it. For too long, lukewarm joke servings from comic book movies had to suffice, but no more. All of this and more had to factor in to my 17th (dear god) annual installment of my year end movie list. Full disclosure, with a major move, a new job, and tending to an infant, I did not see everyt...
