The Twenty Best Movies I Saw in 2025

1. Sinners 

2. Happy Gilmore 2 

3. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 

4. Another Simple Favor 

5. Thunderbolts* 

6. Drop 

7. Laufey's A Night at the Symphony: Hollywood Bowl 

8. The Other Zoey 

9. Olivia Rodrigo: GUTS World Tour 

10. SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) 

11. Swiped 

12. The Beach Boys 

13. The Greatest Night in Pop 

14. Music Box: Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately? 

15. Anyone But You 

16. Predator: Killer of Killers 

17. Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery 

18. One Battle After Another 

19. Woman of the Hour 

20. Eenie Meenie

The Ten Best Movies I Saw in 2024

 

1.  The Fall Guy

2.  Oppenheimer

3.  Alien: Romulus

4.  Renfield

5.  Abigail

6.  Totally Killer

7.  Turtles All the Way Down

8.  Bullet Train

9.  Cocaine Bear

10.  Mean Girls

The Twenty-Five Best Movies I Saw in 2023

 

1.  CODA

2.  Everything Everywhere All at Once

3.  John Wick: Chapter 4

4.  Joy Ride

5.  Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

6.  Plane

7.  Beastie Boys Story

8.  The Beanie Bubble

9.  Do Revenge

10.  Fall

11.  Quiz Lady

12.  Boston Strangler

13.  No One Will Save You

14.  The Choice Is Yours

15.  Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend

16.  Flora and Son

17.  All the Bright Places

18.  Shazam! Fury of the Gods

19.  Scream

20.  Kate

21.  Werewolves Within

22.  Wildflower

23.  X

24.  See You on Venus

25.  Avatar: The Way of Water

The Twenty-Five Best Movies I Saw in 2022

1. The Menu

2. Prey

3. Fresh

4. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

5. Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe

6. Rosaline

7. The Valet

8. DC League of Super-Pets

9. Inside Out

10. Spider-Man: No Way Home

11. OLIVIA RODRIGO: driving home 2 u (a SOUR film)

12. Significant Other

13. Honor Society

14. Emergency

15. The Princess

16. No Time to Die

17. The Map of Tiny Perfect Things

18. Crush

19. Orphan: First Kill

20. See How They Run

21. Darby and the Dead

22. Werewolf by Night

23. No Exit

24. 7 Days

25. Turning Red

The Best Movies That I Watched in 2021

 

1.       The Suicide Squad

2.       Black Widow

3.       In the Heights

4.       Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

5.       Freaky

6.       Queenpins

7.       Promising Young Woman

8.       1917

9.       Coco

10.   We Broke Up

11.   Judas and the Black Messiah

12.   Bill & Ted Face the Music

13.   Encanto

14.   Vacation Friends

15.   Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas

16.   Raya and the Last Dragon

17.   Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

18.   The King of Staten Island

19.   The Gentlemen

20.   A Bad Moms Christmas

21.   A Quiet Place Part II

22.   Five Feet Apart

23.   Isle of Dogs

24.   Cruella

25.   Godzilla vs. Kong

The Twenty-Five Best Movies I Saw in 2019

I have a completely rational hatred of movie theaters so I am content to wait and watch movies when they come to services I already pay for. These are the best movies I watched in the past twelve months:


1. A Simple Favor

2. Avengers: Infinity War

3. BlacKkKlansman

4. Aquaman

5. Spider-Man: Homecoming

6. Thoroughbreds

7. Anna and the Apocalypse

8. Blockers

9. Spider-Man: Into the Spideyverse

10. The Edge of Seventeen

11. The Favourite

12. The Long Shot

13. Booksmart

14. Pitch Perfect 3

15. Brooklyn

16. Ant-Man and the Wasp

17. Mr. Right

18. Always Be My Maybe

19. Now You See Me 2

20. Ready Player One

21. Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates

22. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

23. The Predator

24. The Day Shall Come

25. Don’t Breathe

The Twenty-Five Best Movies I Saw in 2018

1. Game Night

2. La La Land

3. Black Panther

4. Thor: Ragnarok

5. Get Out

6. Dunkirk

7. I, Tonya

8. The Lego Batman Movie

9. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

10. Support the Girls

11. Hidden Figures

12. Darkest Hour

13. The Night Before

14. Short Term 12

15. Table 19

16. Room

17. The Babysitter

18. The Shape of Water

19. Anon

20. Lincoln

21. 47 Meters Down

22. Sleeping with Other People

23. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

24. Logan

25. Annihilation

The 25 Best Movies of 2012

I am wrapping up my Best of 2012 post (click the label at the bottom to see all of them) with my favorite movies of the year. I should note that I hate going to movie theaters so these are basically the best movies released on Blu-Ray in 2012 (or late 2011). Click on the cover to purchase the movie on Amazon.

1. Marvel's The Avengers

2. The Dark Knight Rises

3. The Cabin in the Woods

4. Drive

5. Attack the Block

6. Safety Not Guaranteed

7. The Muppets

8. Marley

9. 21 Jump Street

10. Ides of March

11. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

12. The Five Year Engagement

13. Chronicle

14. The Grey

15. The Sitter

16. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

17. John Carter

18. The Hunger Games

19. The Amazing Spider-Man

20. Haywire

21. Immortals

22. Moneyball

23. Safe House

24. 50/50

25. Restless