BEST 10 FILMS 2025
In order:
1. ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
The film that is on everyone’s Top 10 list. Great action comedy in which the protagonist is not an action fighter but someone hiding and running away for half the movie. Director PT Anderson’s best and most successful box-office hit,
2. MARTY SUPREME
A remarkable ping pong film with excellent ping pong matches on screen. The detailed script, which is a period piece, is excellent, capturing the politics of ping pong among the Asin countries like Japan.
3. THE SECRET AGENT
A black comedy that is fresh and unpredictable in what can be described as a disciplined script. Lots of parodying, especially of the 1970s JAWS and Jean-Paul Belmondo, THAT MAN IN RIO films.
4. WEAPONS
The most fucked up film of the year, which consists of a script that not only shows the different points of view of the different characters, but also how each plays a part in the story. Totally fun and yes, fucked up!
5, TRAIN DREAMS
A melancholic, quiet, and pensive film with an endearing performance from Joel Edgerton. The story of loss, grief, and coping with a raw emotion that hits the heart,
6. MISERICORDA
A brilliant gay film from the director of STRANGER BY THE LAKE. A gay man returns to his village for a funeral and creates havoc after being unable to control his sexual emotions. He is not the only gay man in the village, and the other one saves him from the cops.
7. SIRAT
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A roller coaster ride following a man in search of his daughter in the deserts of Morocco. The suspense scenes are reminiscent of Henri Georges Clozot’s LE SALAIRE DE LA PEUR and the mines segment of the Danish film THIS LAND OF MINE.
8. A POET
A film that features the weirdest hero yet. A diminutive loser of a man champions a young poet while everyone else accuses him of sexual abuse. Fresh, weird, uncomfortable, but extremely well done movie.
9. BUGOVIA
Another weird one from Yorgos Lanthimos with his protege Emma Stone and another new protege. Jesse Plemons who has lost a whole bunch of weight in this role. Nothing is what it seems in this movie, which can be said to apply to any Lanthimos movie.
10. HAMNET
More of a performance film than anything else, but the period atmosphere and sets must be highlighted in what is an exceptionally staged film
