Best of 2025

Wake Up Dead Man

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  • Title: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
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Rian Johnson‘s Knives Out, which introduced us to world-famous detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), was my favorite film of 2019 featuring a perfect blend of mystery, drama, and comedy. Three years later Johnson and Craig would return for the notably more comedic Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. And, now, three years later they return for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery which, although it still contains humor and wit (especially in the first half-hour), overcorrects to be the darkest and most serious of the three films.

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Hamnet

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  • Title: Hamnet
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Based on the historical novel of the same name, Hamnet offers a fictionalized telling of William Shakespeare‘s (Paul Mescal) family and the series of events that could (depending on what scholars you believe) have played into the playwright’s finest tragedy. Whether or not the account is accurate, there is no debate that director Chloé Zhao (who co-wrote the screenplay with the novel’s author Maggie O’Farrell) delivers a heartbreaking, yet ultimately cathartic, emotional tour de force that won’t leave a dry eye in the house.

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One Battle After Another

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  • Title: One Battle After Another
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Strongly inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland, which Paul Thomas Anderson has been attempting to adapt, on and off, for more than two decades, One Battle After Another tackles a litany of themes including revolution, government corruption, interracial couples and racism, and the generational divide between a father and a daughter.

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Watch the Skies

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  • Title: Watch the Skies
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“To know is one thing, but to believe is completely different.”

The 2022 Swedish sci-fi film released in America for the first time asks questions about whether or not we are alone in the universe, but even more so it explores how we treat those who dare raise the question. The film has it where it counts exploring both the intellectual curiosity and emotional need of its characters as they search for the answer of what’s really out there.

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Sinners Sins So Well

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  • Title: Sinners
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Featuring Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as dangerous twins who return home to the Mississippi Delta with ill-gotten gains to set up their own juke joint, writer/director Ryan Coogler‘s Sinners is one part period drama which examine the lives of the tightknit community and one part supernatural thriller as something evil is drawn in by the music of the twins’ cousin Sammie (Miles Caton) all taking place during a single day and night.

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