15. Eephus
This movie is about a recreational baseball game. It's the last time they're playing on this particular field. The game goes later than expected. That's it. Good stuff!
14. I'm Still Here
This isn't the Joaquin Phoenix fake documentary movie of the same name. This also isn't I'm Not There, the Bob Dylan movie or I'm Not Here, a J.K. Simmons thing. She’s Still Here? That's some Mickey Rourke movie. I don't even think it was released. There's no way you're confusing it with that. Quit fooling around, this is a true political thriller.
13. Final Destination Bloodlines
This is the superior tower restaurant horror movie of 2025. It's just the opening scene but it's a great one. That's kind of this movie franchise's whole deal. It's one the year's top ten movie scenes, which I forgot I initially started numbering:
12. Vulcanizadora
When this got added to Kanopy, the free-with-a-library-card streaming site, I'd never heard of it. There's a lot of walking in the woods so it's what I like.
11. Weapons
Along with Sinners this was the consensus stand out horror movie of the year. I've got three better but it does have one of the best scenes of the year. It's the ending though so it would be a spoiler to post it here.
10. The Rule of Jenny Penn
This is the third in my Old Folks Home Trilogy this year. John Lithgow bullies the other residents and it's sooo easy. Because they're old.
9. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
This movie starts with the main character dressed as Missy Elliott when she finds the body of her uncle in the road. Slow down movie, you're grabbing me too hard.
8. The Ugly Stepsister
I've always heard the Grimm's Fairy Tales are darker than the Disney versions. I knew the bit where the stepsister cuts some of her foot off to fit into the shoe. I don't know if the Grimm's had eye trauma and tape worms (best scene number, oh let's say 4) like this movie but here's hoping.
7. Pavements
Your enjoyment of this 75% (?) true story about the band Pavement is surely dependent on your interest in Pavement. I mean, dialing it all the way back, your enjoyment of this may depend on how well you process moving images.
6. A House of Dynamite
I feel like this is a can't miss premise, a nuclear missile is headed to the US, but that's probably taking too much away from director Kathryn Bigelow. Some people have a problem with the ending like they have some great denouement endowment.
5. Hard Truths
This was on a lot of lists last year but it came out this year so I don't know how they did that. Actually, here, I'll do it too. Greenland 2: Migration is the best movie of 2025. See how easy it is to cheat?
4. 28 Years Later
The best horror movie of the year, its sequel comes out in a couple of weeks. So I'm declaring that the best horror movie of this year. Time has no meaning!
3. Misericordia
This is a French movie that I'd never heard of until it was listed as a new arrival at the library. It ended up being my favorite movie of the year at that point. So now I have to watch all movies in hopes for finding the best ones. One of the deaths in this movie is my 3rd best scene of the year because it shocked me so much. I was shocked!
2. One Battle After Another
Well, it was fun there for awhile hating on Paul Thomas Anderson. Mostly because There Will Be Blood isn't very good. Here he's made a chase movie, a genre he should probably stick with. It seems to be in his wheelhouse. Maybe get involved with that Hot Wheels movie. Number 2 best scene isn't the car chase but the foot chase. Maybe there could be a Skip-It movie.
1. Sorry, Baby
The lead in this, Eva Victor, is so good I thought for sure she's been around, probably on some show that's talked about but I've never seen. Looking it up, she was on Billions which fits that description. She's also the director and writer of Sorry, Baby. That makes her the stand out artist of the year! Best scene of the year is the jury selection scene.
