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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Thunderbolts* (2025) – THUNDER!!

Released: 1st May
Seen: 9th May

The Marvel Cinematic Universe will forever be a legendary moment in cinema, a franchise like this going for almost 2 decades with film and TV series creating this wide interconnected universe is almost unheard of and has rarely been as well executed as it has been here. Lately though, it feels like the MCU has been in a slump since the insane high of Endgame. Sure, there’ve been some bright spots, but nothing rose to the level of the MCU before Thanos snapped his fingers. It felt like everything was so spread out that it was hard to return to what made this franchise special. So here we find ourselves with another entry in the long-running franchise… and it might be the best one since Endgame and possibly in the top 10 of the entire MCU experiment, it’s that good.

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