2025: My Favorite Movies

I hope the new year is off to a great start for you and winter isn’t being too brutal in your neck of the woods. Since it’s January, it’s time for me to post my favorite movies I watched last year. I’ve been doing this since 2010.

It’s now been over three years since I last went to a movie theater. It was “Bros” in the fall of 2022.

Jon M. Chu, if you’d stop being “Wicked” and do the sequel to “Crazy Rich Asians”, I’d have my large popcorn and large Coke Zero and be front and center!

Before I share my 20 favorite movies of 2025, my three favorites of 2023 were #3 “Saltburn”, #2 “Red, White & Royal Blue”, and “The Menu” was #1. I just watched it again recently.

And, in 2024, my favorites were: #3 “Challengers”, #2 “Society of the Snow”, and at the top, #1, “All of Us Strangers”.

Now, let’s kick off the countdown!

“THE MONKEY” (Box office: $68.9 million)

“LOCKED” (Box office: $4.1 million)

“THE ORDER” (Box office: $2.3 million)

“CONCLAVE” (Box office:$128.0 million)

“MATERIALISTS” (Box office: $108.0 million)

“BABYGIRL” (Box office: $64.7 million)

“THE SUBSTANCE” (Box office: $80.0 million)

“WICKED” (Box office: $758.8 million)

“WEAPONS” (Box office: $269.1 million)

“THE GROOMSMEN SECOND CHANCES” (Box office: –)

Before we get to my ten favorites I saw in 2025, here were my favorites since I started posting them back in 2010!

2022 “House of Gucci”; 2021 “Promising Young Woman”; 2020 “Parasite”; 2019 “The Farewell”; 2018 “Call Me By Your Name”; 2017 “Lion”; 2016 “Goodnight Mommy”; 2015 “Lilting”; 2014 “Bridegroom”; 2013 “Out in the Dark”; 2012 “Weekend”; 2011 “Children of God”; and 2010 “The Kids Are All Right”. 

“THE ROSES” (Box office: $52.0 million)

“A VERY JONAS CHRISTMAS” (Box office: –)

“PAST LIVES” (Box office: $42.7 million)

“SEPTEMBER 5” (Box office: $8.2 million)

“THE LAST SHOWGIRL” (Box office: $7.1 million)

Before we get to my favorite five, here is the ABSOLUTE WORST movie I watched in 2025.

And, the worst movie I watched that is critically acclaimed and could sweep the award season is Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo Di Caprio’s “One Battle After Another”!

I saw six other movies other than the 20 in the countdown and the two worst ones, but they don’t need to be mentioned. 🙂

Now, back to the countdown.

“SINNERS” (Box office: $368.3 million)

“ANORA” (Box office: $58.2 million)

“JUROR #2” (Box office: $27.0 million)

“ANOTHER SIMPLE FAVOR” (Box office: –)

“A NICE INDIAN BOY” (Box office: $902,453)

How many did you see?

Anthony