It’s that time of year: It’s time to look back at and rank every 2025 film that I saw. Instead of doing a top 10 or bottom 10 or anything like that, I’m ranking absolutely everything. And this year, I saw a whole bunch. I’ll say up front that I don’t bother with movies that I know aren’t my kind of thing, which means you won’t be finding many of the superhero films or big block busters from the year because I typically have no interest in those and get little to nothing out of them. I also don’t really keep up with television as it’s coming out most of the time simply because I prioritize films, however I did see a couple of limited docu-series and TV adjacent projects, so I’ll chuck them into the ranking for the hell of it.
The video directly below covers the rationale for every placement, and the list below that is color-coded for the general quality level. I’ll also make an effort to update written list with additional 2025 films as I see them from time to time (with asterisks to indicate they weren’t on the original list).
- The Lost Chapter: Yuki’s Revenge
- The Carman Family Deaths
- Waltzing with Brando
- Sean Combs: The Reckoning
- Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders
- A House of Dynamite
- Tornado
- Companion
- Unknown Number: The High School Catfish
- Ash
- Amy Bradley is Missing
- The Monkey
- Belén
- Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer
- *Nobody 2*
- 28 Years Later
- The Fox Hollow Murders
- Sinners
- Frankenstein
- Together
- The Long Walk
- Keeper
- Alpha
- The Mortician
- It Ends
- Hedda
- Wake Up Dead Man
- Bring Her Back
- Black Bag
- V/H/S Halloween
- Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke
- Chainsaw Man the Movie: The Reze Arc
- Havoc
- Jay Kelly
- Splitsville
- Mickey 17
- The Phoenician Scheme
- Louis Theroux: The Settlers
- The Perfect Neighbor
- Warfare
- All That’s Left of You
- Sentimental Value
- Little Amélie, or the Character of the Rain
- Weapons
- Train Dreams
- Eddington
- No Other Choice
- Hamnet
- Bugonia
- Late Shift
- The Secret Agent
- Marty Supreme
- One Battle After Another
- It Was Just an Accident
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