The Best of 2025 (3-1)

 Here we are.  What you've all been waiting for.

The top 3 of 2025

3.  Sinners

Ryan Coogler's period drama combines goth horror with 1930s era race issues in a seamless fashion.  Spiritual and graphically brutal, this was high level art.

2.  Bugonia

Yorgos Lanthimos is a director who loves the bizarre.  I've found him hit and miss (usually miss), but this one?  He knocked out of the park.  A darkly comic conspiracy theory-laden film, you will not know where this is going.  The ending?  Brutal but kind of appropriate.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand, the top movie of 2025 is...

1.  Weapons

Congratulations Zach Cregger for directing a most thrilling mystery-horor movie on your second outing as a director.  Creepy.  Intense.  Masterfully told from several character viewpoints while staying fully coherent.  And that ending.  Tragic, brutal, and funny as I don't know what.  Don't know how that was pulled off but it was.

And there you have it folks!  Hopefully we'll see you this time next year for the best of 2026.