movie list, 2025, recap

Saw 243 movies last year, up from 233 last year, and making 2025 the year of my most newly seen to date.

Average rating was 64.22, up from last year’s 61.59

Most disappointing were: Eddington, One Battle After Another, After The Hunt, Magazine Dreams, Jay Kelly, and Messiah of Evil. Not sure our male directors should be doing anything for a little while if they can’t get the verbiage of the current moment written correctly or if they can’t avoid both siderism, stilted fetish, shoulder shrugging I-did-a-thing provocations, etc, etc.

Most surprising to me were Baby Invasion, A Grand Mockery, and Reflection in a Dead Diamond.

Top 20

Sharp Corner
Paris, Texas
Train Dreams
Alabama Solution, The
Stalker
Sovereign
Monkey, The
Killer of Sheep
Baby Invasion
Nostalghia
Vulcanizadora
Sorry, Baby
Big Bend, The
Wings of Desire
A Grand Mockery
Mastermind, The
Die My Love
Girl With The Needle, The
Grand Theft Hamlet
Reflection In A Dead Diamond

Full list is below, highest rating to lowest, followed by any words said toward.


100
Sharp Corner
Paris, Texas
Train Dreams
Alabama Solution, The

99.33
Stalker
Sovereign

98.67
Monkey, The
Killer of Sheep
Baby Invasion
Nostalghia
Vulcanizadora
Sorry, Baby

98
Big Bend, The
Wings of Desire
A Grand Mockery

97.33
Mastermind, The
Die My Love

95.33
Girl With The Needle, The
Grand Theft Hamlet
Reflection In A Dead Diamond

94.67
Perfect Days

94
Friendship
Society of the Snow
Weapons

93.33
Bang Bang
Things You Kill, The

92.67
Best Wishes To All

92
God's Creatures

91.33
A Real Pain
Black Box Diaries, The
Killers of the Flower Moon

90.67
Sinners
2073
Perfect Neighbor, The

88
Wait, The
September 5
Descendent

87.33
Black Bag
Sacrifice, The
Ballad of Buster Scruggs, The

86.67
Eric LaRue
Irishman, The
I Lost My Body

86
Bring Them Down
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

85.33
Last Showgirl, The

84.67
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Presence
A Nice Indian Boy
McVeigh
My First Film

84
Warfare
Baltimorons, The

82.67
Conclave
Harvest

82
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Bloody Lady, The
28 Years Later
Phoenician Scheme, The
Assessment, The
Sew Torn
Welcome To Leith
Wake Up Dead Man

81.33
Freaky Tales
Dead Mail
Buzzard
Steve

80.67
She Loved Blossoms More

80
Night Call
Greasy Strangler, The
Together (2025)

78.67
Sacramento
Predator: Killer of Killers
Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning

78
Serial Mom
Companion

77.33
Relay
Saturday Night
Hotel (2004)
Rule of Jenny Pen, The
Mickey 17
Mountainhead
Babygirl
Men of War (2025)
Ice Tower, The

76.67
Surfer, The
Tornado

76
Line, The
Birdeater
Abundant Acreage Available
Nosferatu (2024)
American Sweatshop
Roofman

75.33
Restless (2025)
Beast of War

74.67
Snack Shack
Ugly Stepsister, The
Final Destination : Bloodlines
Rabbit Trap
John Candy: I Like Me

74
Toxic Avenger, The (2025)
Bone Lake

73.33
Damned, The
Frewaka
Keeper

72.67
Sasquatch Sunset
Bring Her Back
Good Boy
A House of Dynamite
Dead of Winter (2025)

72
Bad Day For The Cut
Hand That Rocks The Cradle, The (2025)

71.33
Love Me
Ballad of Wallis Island, The
She Rides Shotgun

70.67
Dude Bro Party Massacre III
Borderline
Surviving Ohio State
Lilith Fair: Building A Mystery
Black Phone 2
KPop Demon Hunters

70
Naked Gun, The (2025)
Shelby Oaks

68.67
My Old Ass
Aggro Drift
Thursday Murder Club, The
Day Of The Fight

68
A Deadly American Marriage
Mecanix
Dangerous Animals
Superman (2025)
Vicious
Adulthood

67.33
Accountant 2, The
Toxic Avenger, The
Highest 2 Lowest
Toxic Avenger II, The
Conjuring: Last Rites, The
Oh, Hi!

66.67
You're Cordially Invited
Never Let Go
Black'47

66
Fight or Flight

65.33
Help

64.67
Surrender, The
In Vitro
Citizen Sleuth

64
Drop
A Chorus Line
Traumatika

63.33
Being Eddie
One Battle After Another

62.67
Holland
Death of a Unicorn
Titan: The Oceangate Disaster
Somnium

62
Unknown Number: The High School Catfish
Wolfman, The
Predators (2025)

60
Have You Seen Me Lately

59.33
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story

58.67
Ash
58
Grafted
Aqua Teen Forever : Plantasm
Hell Of A Summer

57.33
Magazine Dreams

56
Get Away

55.33
Carman Family Deaths, The

54
It Feeds
Jay Kelly

53.33
Heart Eyes
Murder in Moncaco

52.67
Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie, The
Anniversary
Five Nights At Freddy's 2

52
Echo Valley

49.33
Marshmallow

48.67
Coyotes
Violent Ends

48
Happy Gilmore 2
40 Acres
Truth About Jussie Smollett, The

47.33
Honest Man: The Life of R Budd Dwyer
A Creature Was Stirring
Dying of the Light
Eddington

46.67
Lost Sons, The
Pickup, The

46
Final Destination 2
Southern Fried Lies

45.33
All Of You

44.67
Citizen Toxie, The Toxic Avenger Part IV

43.33
Final Destination
After The Hunt
Carpenter's Son, The

41.33
Final Destination 5
Family McMullen, The

40.67
Havoc

40
Messiah Of Evil
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)

38.67
Night of the Reaper

37.33
Silent Hour, The
Clown In A Cornfield
Push (2025)

36.67
Greatest Beer Run Ever, The
Superhero Movie

36
Wolf Man
Locked

35.33
Child Star

34.67
Gorge, The
My Dead Friend Zoe

33.33
Cleaner

32.67
Woman In Cabin 10, The

30.67
Afraid
Until Dawn

28.67
Honey Don't

28
Draft Day

27.33
Here
Another Simple Favor

26.67
My Oxford Year

26
Friend, The
Five Nights At Freddy's

24.67
Idaho Student Murders, The
In Our Blood

23.33
Astronaut, The

22.67
Final Destination, The

22
Life List, The

20.67
Oh. What. Fun.

19.33
Two Night Stand

18.67
Back In Action

17.33
Champagne Problems

16.67
Hurry Up Tomorrow

12.67
Strange Harvest
Perfect Date, The

6
House On Eden

2.67
Wrong Paris, The

2
Sidelined 2: Intercepted
Escaping Ohio

1.33
Christmas On The Alpaca Farm

0.67
Mormon Mom Gone Wrong: The Ruby Franke Story
War of the Worlds (2025)

0
One True Loves
Christmas is Canceled


~~~~~

Words toward:

Sharp Corner
2024 
Directed by Jason Buxton

I WROTE THIS POEM THAT YOU MIGHT READ THE TITLE AND WANT TO WATCH BEN FOSTER IN SHARP CORNER

I would cry for my mother.

I would ask my father
to cry for my mother.
I would cry for my father.

I would ask my father
to cry for his brothers.
I would cry for my sister
who said god
is a cigarette
in the cosmos.

I would cry nailgun cry unkissed heels

I would cry for my brothers.
I would cry in other words thrice
For myself.

I would cry on film for god for god on film

I would cry for the drink drinking that the drinking ends

I would cry brevity

Cry foreskin forecry

Cry rest
room rest
moon

I would cry for god all that
All that having
to separate
the naked from the naked.

I would cry for my children
Cry Genevieve

Cry Beverly

Cry name, knowing name
hears not

Cry ghost for the ghost
whose ghost
thinks dogs
are real

those dogs, with time

~

Baby Invasion
2024 
Directed by Harmony Korine

A machine in the ghosted and are these yes the agreed upon animals. Error prone infant, my mistake is gone forever. My favorite action movie is classism and ours is a silent one about god forgetting to save her progress. I thought it would be the eating that would be hard to devour. Obsession is a border. Sometimes when I babysit apocalypse you die behind death's back.

~

Nostalgia
1983 
Ностальгия
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

(con)text message to the brothers after watching:

probably shouldn't watch Andrei Tarkovsky and Harmony Korine films back-to-back but it's been a sec since I went off and I wish I had been not only a kind person but also a good person when we were all together on the farm that burned our childhood into a tattooed star and/or roadkill bc I am a good person now but no one knows also I think a man needs god in order to think about a man and that's about all god is good for ANYWAY Friday was super hot here and I was taking off my button-up shirt while walking out of the workplace and I got stuck in it and scared my new boss which made me sorta happy

~

Vulcanizadora
2024 
Directed by Joel Potrykus

My brother can’t get that dog injured by fireworks to leave the church. He has me try different names on the dog but I don’t think it likes being called. The dog isn’t ours, of course. Hard to know if that goes for the whole dog. I dream I write a book that can track sadness. God has been the same since eating plastic.

~

Stalker
1979 
Сталкер
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

It takes three ghosts to end the present. Outside it smells like not touching you. I don’t go anywhere without my bomb. There’s no place on earth on earth. I don’t take photographs I can look at. My body has never been a body to your quieter mother. I drink myself into walking. Three ghosts eat the mouth of an angel from the back of the very spider that called god with a handprint into hand’s only dream. There a tooth, and trainsets. Inside the movie there are two rules. We’re alone. You can’t miss it. Don’t look at photographs that answer to image.

~

Perfect Days
2023 
Directed by Wim Wenders

You cannot count people whose fingers are worried. Eternity eats a clock in paradise. Touch can’t write. Bliss is a trap. Imagine having the perfect day. Perfect forgetting. I really wanted to like that book. Some rice, some wristcutting. My son disappears but only when I think about him. I sang in church and spelled words correctly. Jesus got close to passing out but in the end had to fake it. I held small jobs in the basements of movie blood warehouses. When not dying I felt odd setting in a hospital an alarm that would trigger no meaning. Wim Wenders is a no notes name. God isn’t much. Silence in the bomb’s empty stomach.

~

War of the Worlds
2025 
Directed by Rich Lee

How desolate. Tempting those experiencing homelessness with an Amazon gift card to risk their lives...yikes. There is low and then there is hell. And then there is this.

~

Bang Bang
2024 
Directed by Vincent Grashaw

Vincent Grashaw's 'Bang Bang' pretends to take a second to get going, but then convinces everyone in it and everyone on the outs that they've been there from the beginning. Stay with it. Nelson beats himself to two different punches, and Corrigan sings sadness to its better doom. The mirrors here are made of aftermath. The cracks are there to let other cracks be. If there's a gift, it's given to those who've carried the eating.

~

A Grand Mockery
2024 
Directed by Adam C. Briggs, Sam Dixon

Dearest deep panic machine, god isn’t for the detail-oriented. The first loneliness is the most fun. We say melancholy while smoking in a cemetery because no one actually died here. Dies. I flapped my arms while painting and saw the angel of animatronic suicide. Death and trash. The far loneliness of being present. Of unchecked repetitions. In a poem about my arm a star became jealous of a cigarette burn.