Every year, I try my best to put together a list of the 20 best performances of the year, though last year I was only able to make a 10-person list due to personal reasons. This year, I more than made up for it with a 20-person list of performances that were the best of the year. Now, as usua,l I wish to bring up that “Best” is a marketing term which really just means “Shit that I liked a lot”, these aren’t going to be the award winners or things that might be considered the height of the craft but they are the most fun, interesting or jaw dropping performances of the year that I just couldn’t stop thinking about. Of course, every list needs some honourable mentions, so here’s mine with no explanations for why they’re here (Ask nicely and maybe I’ll explain them… or not)
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The Top Ten Best Films of 2025
You know, I have to admit, 2025 has been a pretty great year for movies. Maybe I was just lucky and kept happening upon the cream of the crop but this year it’s honestly gonna be harder to pick the best movies than the worst ones. Little behind-the-scenes info here, as the year goes on, I keep a list of the films I’ve seen and make a “Best” and “Worst” shortlist going just to try and help me out at the end of the year. This year, the worst shortlist was 15 titles long, almost every title I didn’t like could be brought up in that list… the best list? 29 titles long, every single one a film I actually loved which was absolutely gleeful to watch. Half that list won’t even be printed because there’s just too many to go through and cutting it down to a top 10 has been hell… but I did it, but first we need to lay out the ground rules:
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Mickey 17 (2025) – Hey Mickey
Released: 6th March
Seen: 23rd March
In 2020, the Oscars did something genuinely cool. For the first time in the history of the ceremony, a non-English language film won Best Picture, a moment that might be the last actually good thing to happen in 2020. The film in question, Parasite, took home four awards that night for Screenplay, Directing, International film and Best Picture. The director, Bong Joon ho, instantly became a major player and whatever film he made after Parasite was going to be a big deal so we all waited for over half a decade for his next big feature film. That film has finally come out after half a decade and as expected, Bong Joon Ho has delivered something truly spectacular in his latest work, Mickey 17.
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