Here are the best movies I watched in 2025. As always, there are things that came out in December that I probably won’t watch until later this month, and unfortunately I’ll have to add those movies in the “Movies I Caught Up On” section in next year’s list. Looking at you Wake Up Dead Man.
- Blue Moon
- Hamnet
- Jay Kelly
- Marty Supreme
- My Mom Jayne
- Nouvelle Vague
- One of Them Days
- Sinners
- SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
- Superman
- Wicked: For Good
And here are the movies I saw for the first time this year.
- All That Heaven Allows
- Belle (2013)
- Better Man
- Between Two Worlds (1944)
- Carol for Another Christmas
- Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
- Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
- Coco
- Easter Parade
- Father of the Bride (2022)
- The Great Muppet Caper
- How to Have Sex
- I Love You Again
- In Name Only
- It's a Very Merry Muppets Christmas Movie
- Klaus
- Merrily We Go to Hell
- Midnight (1939)
- Pride & Prejudice (2005)
- Summer of Soul (... Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
- Summer Stock