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Top Ten Films of 2025

 

10. Highest 2 Lowest

“A mashup of Macbeth and the biblical chronicles of King David…”

9. Sorry, Baby

“…keeps you on your toes with a rare combination of wit, emotion, and empathy.”

8. The Mastermind

“J.B. registers as a particularly American fraud.”

7. One of Them Days

“A certain magic exists when two comic talents slide perfectly in sync…”

6. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

“…makes a provocative claim: that something essential is missing from the most prominent expressions of American Christianity these days.”

5. Boys Go to Jupiter

“At once a time-capsule snapshot of the economic despair of American youth and a larger, existential consideration of how to find meaning in a seemingly callous universe.”

4. Weapons

“…taps into the fearful, impotent rage so many of us feel whenever there is news of more children being sacrificed at the idol of firearms.”

3. Grand Theft Hamlet

“High art collides with low expectations, resulting in something like a renewed faith in humanity.”

2. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

“There is the sense that magic is in the air, for both ill and good.”

1. One Battle After Another

“…understands the urgency of this moment.”

Recent Reviews

Xiao Wu (Pickpocket) (1997)

Drama Rated NR

“… a scrappy, neo-realist tale of societal scrounging that’s paused by poetic moments of slow cinema.”

Tropical Malady (2004)

Drama Rated NR

“Unusually sensitive, in the sense that every element seems to pulse with its own life force. . .”

“Wuthering Heights” (2026)

Drama Rated R

“This is not your mother’s Wuthering Heights!” the movie howls back at the wind whipping over those moors.”


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