Subverts every expectation. Once I finally adjusted my logic, it went from absurd to beautiful—and back to absurd again. Still wrapping my head around the last 15 or so minutes. Sound design and production design was sick and nearly every line of dialogue had me either smiling or laughing. thanks for that rec!
Sinners is very good but all of the top ten placements is mystifying. It is leading to a lot of people online trying to tear down One Battle After Another and Marty Supreme.
I’ve definitely seen a lot of bad takes in comment sections I shouldn’t be reading. All towards MS and Weapons. Imagine thinking Weapons is a bad film.
People get overinvested in the films they like and they get really insane around awards season. I saw someone say One Battle After Another is the worst film they have ever seen.
I know I’m super late on this. I still have more to see but I want to at least post my tentative list. 1. Resurrection 2. The Secret Agent 3. Eddington 4. Marty Supreme 5. No Other Choice 6. Universal Language 7. Train Dreams 8. If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You 9. Sorry, Baby 10. Friendship ——— 11. Christy 12. Misericordia 13. One Battle After Another 14. The Mastermind 15. Dead Man’s Wire
We weren't planning on seeing it initially but we'd just seen Jay Kelly at the Philly Film Fest, and the staff offered free tickets to the next film, which was Christy. They said Christy Martin herself would be there afterward for a Q&A and to receive an award, so we figured, hey why not. I didn't know anything about her, nor do I care at all about female boxing, but her story of survival was truly touching. It was made even more powerful by her presence in the theater. Seeing her in real life after watching the events of the film (having previously known nothing about it), full of life, healthy, happy, empowered--it was moving. It's a pretty good film with an actually great performance by Sweeney (great music too), but what really shook me was the content itself.
Also not excusing the film’s terrible marketing, Sweeney’s stupidity throughout its rollout, or the embarrassing attempts to defend its box office failures. The movie itself is worth seeing.
Favorite TV Shows (Drama) of 2025 1. Severance 2. Pluribus 3. The Pitt 4. Andor 5. Stranger Things 6. Black Mirror 7. Peacemaker 8. Squid Game 9. Daredevil: Born Again 10. Dept Q 11. The White Lotus 12. Alice In Borderland 13. Adolescence 14. The Diplomat 15. Paradise 16. Ironheart
Most Humane: Eddington Eddington is all about the fear of exposure—to ideas, to information, to disease, to other people—and it so successfully unsettles because it imbues in its viewer the feeling of being exposed. How simple it would have been to only lampoon its wayward souls as saps. But Ari Aster knows we’re all under the thumb of something larger and scarier and unstoppable, and that our actions, from the smallest squabble over mask-wearing to the largest faux-“antifa” firebombing, are part of a slow process of political and technological dehumanization. Because Aster is congenitally allergic to cuteness, his characters rarely ingratiate themselves to us. But these are recognizably fallible humans, however extreme their measures and delusions. Of course, you’d have to be a person, not a bot, to notice. —MK yes