The Ten Best Movies of 2025

 Honorable Mention - The Long Walk

This movie could have made the top ten if it wasn't for the final season that annoyed me and tainted the movie.   Great points of view on the world given throughout the movie and a very simple concept that was done in a great storytelling way.  

10 - The Fantastic Four: First Steps

I feel as if ultimately this movie will end up being defined by how the characters are portrayed moving forward in the MCU.  But that being said - I loved that this wasn't the third attempt at an origin story.  I loved the cast.  I am also very excited to see what's to come from them.   This was Marvel feeling like Marvel again and hopefully that continues.

9 - The Unbreakable Boy

I usually have zero patience for the faith and religious type movies.   I don't know if they are just being done better or if I'm in need of more hope as I get older and the world gets crazier but this movie grabbed my heart and wouldn't let go.   

8 - Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning

Yes I absolutely wish these movies could come down closer to 2 hours than 3 but I have loved this franchise from day one and this "final" entry was no different.  The action and stunts are always out of control and the growing "family" feelings with the returning characters are awesome.

7 - Thunderbolts

I know I said that Fantastic Four was Marvel feeling like Marvel again but this movie captured that even more after a couple years of them treading water pretty much.   I loved everything about this - the cast, the connections and the adding of mental health stuff really humanized the heroes in a way that had not been done before.   

6 - How To Train Your Dragon

The original is one of my favorite movies of all time and might honestly be my number one animated movie of all time.   This live action remake was perfectly done.   It was actually almost too perfectly done because they really didn't change or add anything.   That would be the only knock I would make against it.

5 - Roofman

Never in a million years did I think this movie would end up on this list.  This was very much the movie that I saw the trailer for before every movie and just needed the movie to come out so that I could stop seeing it.  Yet the movie ended up feeling like one of the most genuine and down to earth movies I saw all year.   Like it made you connect with the characters and very invested in their journeys.

4 - Lilo & Stitch

The second of two live action remakes on the list.   Like the previous one - Lilo & Stitch is a massively important movie to me and they did an EXCELLENT job of turning it into live action along with some tweaks throughout that also worked incredibly which usually doesn't happen.   All of the same emotions were conveyed and hit just as great.

3 - One Battle After Another

This is the movie that I think will be winning a ton of 2025 awards and rightfully so.  It was great acting and really great storytelling with intersecting characters and stories at different times and over a long period of time.   That is all very very impressive.

2 - Weapons

It's very rare that a scary or horror movie can hit me or stick with me like this one did.  The marketing was awesome and I fully expected it to make the movie fail.  But then the movie ended up being much more than the trailers weirdness.  It had a ton of creepy as hell moments and the way of telling the story from multiple different angles and showing how they connect just before changing the point of view again was awesome.   And any time that there is a movie that when the bad guy gets what is coming to them in a super violent and gross way that the audience is just out loud cheering and clapping - you have managed to fully engross your audience for sure.

1 - F1

I was stunned at how much I loved this movie.  It was pretty much formula in every possible way but like it worked so well.  This movie felt like a massive throwback to late 80s and early 90s movies that made me fall in love with going to the movies in the first place.   Like you just locked in for two hours and enjoyed the ride.   

The Ten Worst Movies of 2025

 Dishonorable Mention - I Know What You Did Last Summer

This could have been beyond easy to do.  Just redo the same movie with the nostalgia thrown in.  Pretty much every franchise has done it to pretty decent success.  BUT when you remove the actual crime that was "done last summer" and make it just peeps seeing an accident then what is it that you are hiding or running from.  I was so unable to get past that choice and honestly still can't.

10 - Dangerous Animals

Premise seemed crazy but at least original.  Serial killer that uses sharks to kill his victims.  However, when there is only one shark killing someone scene in the movie . . . . . . doesn't that negate the whole serial aspect of it all?

9 - Love Hurts

I'm honestly over the action porn genre of movies.   These are like those movies that are so over the top action with gore and stuff.   Like there have been some good ones but this should not have ever become a genre with movies like this regularly coming out.

8 - Five Nights At Freddy's 2

This is one of those pop culture things that I will just never understand.  The movies are so cheesy and are neither scary or funny.   Like what are these supposed to be?

7 - The Day The Earth Blew Up

I used to LOVE Looney Tunes movies.   Was actually excited about them deciding to release a new one.  How was this sooooooo bad?  Like I found myself hate watching a cartoon that I grew up loving.   I really don't understand how this could be done so wrong/bad.

6 - Karate Kid: Legends

When nostalgia is done good it can be great.   Ironically - Cobra Kai is pretty much the template for it.   However, this movie was honestly terrible and the marketing was absolute bs because the peeps marketed so heavily nostalgia wise were barely in the movie.  

5 - A Minecraft Movie 

Like I said before with the Five Nights franchise, there are certain things that I just don't get.   The whole Minecraft thing was a kids pop culture thing that just went right over my head with zero understanding or care.   I found it all pretty annoying and this movie was beyond that.   I just watched the whole thing with an annoyed WHAT face and its crazy because I pretty much like everyone in the cast.

4 - Bride Hard

The world knows that there are few bigger fans of Fat Amy than this guy.  However, how in the blue hell was this movie a wide release much less made at all.  This was outright painful and couldn't even succeed as being tongue in cheek.

3 - The Toxic Avenger

It is downright terrifying and a true statement to how bad movies were this year that this movie is not number on on the list.   I saw things in this movie that will be etched in my brain forever.  Seeing this was an all time sign of friendship.  

2 - Flight Risk

This movie was so bad on so many many levels.   Yet, I somehow managed to find a way to make it worse.  I saw this movie in a 4D theater to see what it was like.   I left with back pain, a banged up knee and felt the aftereffects for days from being thrown around while watching the movie because of the extra effects.   Literally walked out of there like I was in a 90 minute fight.  Definitely a memorable experience but absolutely not a good one.

1 - Better Man

I may have only made it through 30 minutes of this movie but like WHAT . . . . . . WAS . . . . . . THIS!?!  Is Robbie Williams a big enough deal that he warrants an autobiographical film about him?   That is quite honestly a big enough question to kill this movie.   But then add in that he was played by a CGI monkey for some reason and . . . . . . BOOM!!!   Worst movie of the year that came out like 3 days into the year.   Congrats!