The Kristian Harloff Show - TOP 10 BEST MOVIES OF 2025!

Episode Date: December 31, 2025

Kristian Karloff counts down the top 10 best movies of 2025! In this video, we break down the biggest hits, best performances, and the films that truly defined the year. From massive studio releases to unexpected breakout favorites, this top 10 movies list has it all for movie fans who love smart conversation and thoughtful analysis. We talk about some of the most-discussed titles of the year including sinners, one battle after another, weapons, marty supreme, bugonia, 28 years later, the naked gun, kpop demon hunters, and wake up dead man as we look at the best movies that left a lasting mark on audiences and critics alike. Whether you're into action, drama, comedy, or thrillers, this roundup of top movies from 2025 will have something for you. Join Kristian as he shares why these films resonated, what set them apart creatively, and how they stacked up against the rest of the year's releases. Let us know your picks for the top 10 best movies of 2025! in the comments — and whether you agree with the final ranking! #Top10 #BestMovies #Top10Movies #TopMovies2025 #MovieReview #KristianKarloff #Top10BestMoviesOf2025 #FilmDiscussion #Sinners #OneBattleAfterAnother #MartySupreme #Bugonia #28YearsLater #TheNakedGun #KpopDemonHunters #WakeUpDeadMan #Weapons #MovieRanking #BestOf2025 SPONSORS: RIDGE WALLET:  Take advantage of Ridge's Biggest Sale of the Year and GET UP TO 47% Off  by going to https://www.Ridge.com/KRISTIAN #Ridgepod

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Visit mopar.com for complete details and a copy of the PowerDrain Limited Warranty. Comments is a registered trademark of Cummins Inc. Graham and Hemmy are registered trademarks of FCAUS LLC. What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to the channel or welcome to the channel. As I always say, this is something that we do. Hell, man, I've been doing this since Mark Ellis and I were making videos back in the day. And we did the best of for the year.

The things that we saw, the things that we like, and it's just a tradition. There are a lot of people when you say, hey, listen to what this idiot says. Sometimes, I don't always agree with them, but I want to hear his movies. I don't hear his opinions. What were the top 10 this knucklehead decided to choose on? And as I always say, and as I've been saying, for a very long time, this list consists of the movies that I enjoyed the most, the top 10 that I enjoyed the most. Are some of them maybe better made than some of the others as far as film goes? Sure.

Are some of them going to be movies that you didn't like that I did or maybe vice versa? Maybe we both loved it, and we both loved it why it was a solo in your list? or was you loved that too much. Should have been lower on your list. Again, my list, but nonetheless, going to make it for you. Now, what I always do, well, the first time I actually do is subscribe, click, like, comment, do all that and more. And then we're going to get into it.

What I always do when I'm doing these lists, I give you some honorable mentions. I just mentioned some of the things and not, just kind of grouped in, things that didn't make the list in no particular order. And maybe if something was very close. I will tell you that. But let's get to it. Let's get to the best of list. Here's some honorable mentions.

Check it out. Okay. So this one actually was pretty close to my list. And I thought it was going to make my top 10 all year because I laughed at it so much. I enjoyed it so much. And that is, of course, the remake of the Naked Gun. I just loved it. I watched it.

I did a rewatch with Ming. He had never seen it before. And we just laughed our asses off. It was one of those kind of old school comedies. They took the feel of what made the original so special. They didn't remake it. I didn't know what to make when they said, okay, we're doing our, we thought remake, but it's a sequel. And it was funny.

Paul Walter Houser, Liam Neeson, comedic time was great. Pam Anderson. It was a blast. So I really enjoyed that one. So that was on my honorable mention. Frankenstein was another one. This one could have easily made the list, and maybe with even more thinking of it, maybe eventually could have crept its way there.

But I just saw it not too long ago. I did a reaction for it on this channel. Tiltoro is a master. I thought the hype behind Jacob Lorty's performance was well-deserved. Oscar Isaac. I mean, Christoph Waltz, this movie was really a gothic whirlwind. And I loved it. I really liked what they did with it, whether Del Toro is doing stuff with

Pinocchio. Now Frankenstein. I really dug it. One of the ones, Battle of Wallace Island was a movie I wasn't too familiar with and checked it out. And just the little comedy, heartwarming comedy that I dug thought it worked really well. Carrie Mulligan. And it just, it was one of those movies I knew absolutely nothing about.

It went into it, but this couple, they were split. They wind up both getting their famous musicians. They wind up getting put on this island because of this fan. And you won't guess what happens. I really liked it a lot. It was nice. Some animated movies, whether it was K-pop Demon Hunters, Zootopia 2. I thought two movies that really stood out this year in the animated ones,

In Your Dreams was another movie. It wasn't expecting anything from, and it turned out to be just another heartwarming great film. I love what Netflix is doing with animated so far. So both K-pop Demon Hunter, Zootopia 2, In Your Dreams, and some animated ones. Is this thing on? The Bradley Cooper directed Will Arnette, Laura Dern movie about Will Arnette's character. They're going through the split him and Laura Dern.

He winds up doing stand-up comedy and with almost like a secret hobby. Not almost. It's a secret hobby. And he's trying to balance his life plus balance the stand-up comedy. And it was a really solid performance by Will Arnett and everybody's saying this. And maybe unfairly so, but I didn't know he had it in him. He's great in it. And I'll throw a comic book movie in there, too. Thunderbolts, didn't know anything about it.

Didn't know how it was going to fear. Marvel's kind of been on a downturn. And it was a solid film that dove a little bit more into kind of classic Marvel of diving into the character's story and play the story. and played a little bit more into deeper issues, which I like the thought that Lewis Pullman had a standout performance. Florence Pugh obviously carries the movie.

And it is one of the better Marvel movies in quite a bit and even better on the rewatch. Those are some of the honorable mentions. Those are just some of the honorable mentions that, as I said, I'm just going to mention a few movies that pop in there. And so there you go. There's probably some other ones

that I probably could have put on the honorable mentions, but those are the ones. Oh, Avatar, Fire and Ash, is another movie that I would put on the honorable mentions. It was an enjoyable movie for me. I like the Avatar franchise. I'll watch 87 of those movies. I know maybe the third one wasn't for everybody,

but I dug watching it. So, honorable mention. So let's get into the top 10. This is the top 10 for me, my list. The movies I enjoyed the most in 2025. five. What I like normally what I've been doing. Now there's some, you know, if you are following this channel or subscribe to this channel, you'll see that I'll do some trailer reactions to some of the bigger movies and I'll go in and I'll say, okay, well, I knew a little bit what that's about,

obviously. So, whether it's, uh, or the Avengers that just came out or other, other things, I'll do trailer reactions. There are some movies that I don't want to know anything about. I won't see a trailer. I don't want to know nothing. I just want to see the movie when I am watching it and learn the characters as it evolves. And that was the case with my number 10. The Balti Morons. This is directed by J. Duplas of the Duplas Brothers. Obviously, it stars Michael Strasner, Liz Larson. And this movie is another one that I'm using it a lot in the honorable mentions, and I'll use it here. Heartfelt. It is, and this movie, I knew absolutely nothing about this.

This is these two lost souls kind of find each other on Christmas. And the reason why is because Michael Strasbourg, Strasner, rather, is he's got something that happened in his past. And then something happens to him while he's with his girlfriend, and it leads him to a dentist. played by Liz Larson. From there, the adventure continues. And Michael Strasser, I never heard of this person, never seen him before, and nothing about him. What a likable lead character this guy was.

And the chemistry that he has with Liz Larson, they just take you on this and you care about this because you care about them. They make you understand who these two people are and why they have found each other. and it is just a really nice human story. Wasn't expecting to like it as much as I did. And I loved it. I couldn't stop raving about it.

So that's my number 10. It deserves it on the list because when I find myself talking about a movie so much and recommending it to people, I say, yeah, I think that it's got to hit the list. So number 10, and I think that J. Dupluss does a great job with these characters. He also wrote this with Michael Strassner. So because of that, like I said, number 10 is the balty morons. All right. Now we shift to number nine.

Now, this might be a little lower on my list and other people's list, but it's still in the top ten. And that is Marty Supreme. Marty Supreme, obviously Timothy Shalame, who I believe very well could win the best actor role for this movie. This is loosely, loosely based on the. great Marty Mouser and it takes place 60s and you've got 50s really Marty Mouser who it was this ping pong player he's trying to get his way

to the championships he's trying to get some respect and he just can't do it without absolute chaos ensuing Josh Safty directs this and I think pretty masterfully takes us through this journey where you think it's going to be this sports film about ping pong. It is not. It is an absolute tour to force, if you will, by young Timothy Shalamey sounds condescending, but it isn't.

He's young and he's awesome. This dude is just firing out next level of performances with everything he does. I might be in the minority, but I love the interviews that he gives. I love the confidence that he has, plus the fact that I think some of the interviews has been to hype up this movie because what Marty Mouser does and the way that he is, he's arrogant and he wants to achieve greatness and he will do anything in order to do it. And in order to do that, he's got to break some eggs, as they say. And this movie just never really, it's not predictable.

And that's what I liked about it a lot. So it's long but doesn't feel long, if that makes sense. because you are just so locked in to everything that is going on from the second it starts. And I think that that's a testament really to what Josh Safdi and Timothy Shalemi are doing in tandem with each other. And there's what, Gwyneth Paltrow is in this movie and what she does and the relationship that she has. And I will say also the other performance that I want to shout out in this one is Odessa Azzan, who I actually, before, I think the beginning of this year, Jennifer Esposito came in to the studio, and we interviewed her for her film,

Fresh Kills, that she directed and wrote. And Odessa was in this movie, and she was a real big standout. And I remember talking to her and saying, yeah, she's really going to do something special. And she does it in Marty Supreme. She's fantastic in the film. She goes back and forth with Timothy Shalame,

and their performances alone are well-watched at worst. So with number nine, Marty Supreme. All right. So then number eight, you know what's so funny. I was going through my most anticipated list. And I always like to do this afterwards. And I'll do like, you know, honorable mentions. And then I look at the actual list and see out of the most anticipated, how many made my top

10? And I think this year, two or three. Two definitely, maybe three. But not a lot out of the 10 made the top 10. One of the ones that was not on my most anticipated. I'll tell you that right now is. Wake Up Dead Man, a Knives Out mystery. So I really enjoyed the first Knives Out, Ryan Johnson's mystery, kind of clue-esque films with Benoit Blanc, of course, Daniel Craig, star-studded cast every single time.

The first one had that. I didn't love the second one. I thought the second one was predictable, that it started to lose its magic. I thought that there was just some stuff that, you know, you just knew right away what they were doing. and I was like, eh, it just didn't, maybe they should not make any more of these.

They're just, it's going to turn into an Ocean's 12 type thing where they're just making movies behind, it's like their inside joke that's not really working for everybody else. They shut me up real quick because this movie works. Benoit Blanc is back in this tale.

This time, he's trying to help out priest, played by Josh O'Connor. And Josh O'Connor, finds himself in this place. He's trying, he's a priest who's like, okay, wait a minute. There's his other, Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, played by Josh Brolin, has a real hold on this church. And he's just trying to do the right thing.

And then, of course, something goes down. Somebody gets killed. And then Josh O'Connor and Daniel Craig have to figure out what's going on. Star-studded cast, as I said, Glenn Close, mele Koonitz. Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Kaylee Spaney, Thomas Hayden Church, Jeffrey Wright. It's, to me, that could have lent itself to the problem I have with number two. All right, great. Big Star, All-Star cast.

Is there any juice? There is. It's clever. I must have heartfelt again. It is heartfelt. Hell, I'll use it again. But I will really give the credit here. to Josh O'Connor.

He's got to make you care enough about this priest for about 20 minutes or so before Benoit Blanc even shows up. And he does. I almost forgot that Benoit Blanc was going to show up at all because I was like, I didn't care. I was so intrigued by the story of Father Du Plentency, who Joshua Conner plays. And it's funny. You care.

The mystery is good. I kind of saw what was coming, but it's how they do the reveal at the end that you say, oh, okay, well, maybe I didn't see that coming. Maybe I could guess who it was, but I didn't necessarily see why. And that's what I liked. I think you can tell that Ryan Johnson has fun with these movies, and because of it, I've now seen it twice and watched it once in the theater when it had the limited run that I was able to see it in the theater.

And then I did a reaction here on the channel with my friend Sam, and it's even better the second time. So that's why at number eight, I have knives out three. Okay. So now that takes us to number seven on the list. Another movie that I probably wouldn't have seen nor checked out, didn't watch the trailer. Earlier this year, I did a reaction for the film Barbarian, Zach Craigor. And I was like, oh, after I saw that, because I'm not a big horror guy, but I just like really, when movies are really well done, and you can tell there's something about the filmmaker, you want to see what they're going to do next. And weapons was that for me. So number seven obviously is weapons. I, we just mentioned Josh Boland, who he's in this one again,

Julia Garner in this one, Alden-Aren Reich. And it's kind of pieced together, kind of Tarantino-esque, where you get, here's the story, here's that story again from that perspective, here's the story again, but from that perspective, and here's how it all ties in. And it's a creepy story where for some reason, these kids, they wake up, like two or three in the morning, whatever time it was, they all were run away with their arms stretched out, and people like, why? Who did it? And what I also like about this is Amy Madigan coming back as Gladys, and not only coming back, she's getting, she's getting buzzed. She's getting nominated for this for certain award ceremonies, and rightfully so.

This was a movie that, as I've said many times over, that the movie star themselves, yes, there are movie stars and people who have presents, but back in the day, movie stars could put butts in seats with their name alone, and nobody knew what the movie was. Oh, the new Tom Cruise movie, the new this movie. That is starting to be the case for me was Zach Krieger. Oh, the new Zach Craigger movie?

What's it about who's in it? Who cares? Zach Craigor's doing it? I'm going to be in for some kind of adventure. I know he's doing Resident Evil next. I probably would have had no interest in it, but now I'm pumped. It might be on my most anticipated. Not sure yet.

But he is the star of this movie. The performances by both Julia Garner, Josh Brolin. Josh Browlin has a moment in this movie that just makes me laugh out loud every time I watch the damn thing. Alden Aaron Reich, another one who does exactly what he needs to do in order to keep you engaged in it. It's graphic at times. Benedict Wong, by the way, also in this. movie and phenomenal. There's some really graphic

scenes in this and hard to watch but relevant, not just gratuitous. So it's another one that I've seen twice. Saw it in the theater, then I did reaction to my friend Ming, and it I was wondering on the second

watch, because I knew everything that was happening, would it get better? And it did. I could watch this movie again and again. And as I mentioned earlier, earlier. If I continuously recommend movie to people, then it's most likely going to make my list because that's how much I enjoyed it. And I want to share that enjoyment with other people to say, you've got to check out weapons. So there you go. And number seven, weapons. All right.

Number six, you know, to be honest with you, if I make this list next week, this could go higher on my list. It really could. It could probably land in my top three. If I start thinking about it even more. But right now it lands at six and it could change. It could change. But I'm making the list today. So it's number six. I had no interest in seeing Hamnet. I had no interest because I thought it was just going to be an Oscar-bait movie. They're like, okay, great, here we go. Another one of these ones. Yeah, everybody talking about how wonderful it is because it's got this and then just they're supposed to vote for it. So Chloe's house making this movie. This movie deserves every bit of hype that it gets.

I've said this before. I'll say it again. I don't use the word often when describing a movie. This movie is beautiful. Any hype that came to this, I would tell my ignorant self that said, oh, it doesn't be some Oscar-R-Bray movie. You shouldn't say, you're an idiot.

Because this movie is, it's a special movie. And it's about William Shakespeare, played by Paul Meskell, who loses his son. That's history. And they got to figure out how to deal with that loss. And as great as Paul Mescal is, and as masterful as Chloe Zhao is telling this story, the story here is Jesse Buckley,

who plays Shakespeare's wife. I was not familiar with Jesse Buckley going into this. I know there's other projects that people had seen her in. I had not seen those projects. This woman is a superstar and not in a movie star kind of way. In a Daniel Day Lewis kind of way. I have not been so moved by a performance by an actor or actress in such a long time is one of the greatest performances I've seen

in probably the last 20, 25 years. And I think, as I mentioned, Daniel Day-Lewis, I think it is as strong of a performance as Daniel Day-Lewis had in There Will Be Blood. She takes you through these range of emotions and the understanding of grief and what it is to be apparent. And there's something that just happens

at the very end of this movie that should be studied in performances. in range. To me, acting is here. It's in the eyes. It's being able to see if you can really interpret what the person's trying to tell you by looking in their eyes. And that's what happens with her. You see it. And not just in that particular scene, very much so in that scene, but not just in that scene. The chemistry that she has with Paul Mesk, and then you combine that with the absolute poetry of what Chloe Zhao is doing. And I hear myself speaking about this movie.

And if you're yelling at me that it should be higher on the list, I'm not going to argue with you because I'm probably going to argue with myself that this movie should be up higher on the list, especially in a movie that I just didn't have an interest in seeing. For an ignorance reasoning, that's it. And I'm so glad that I checked it out. I'm so glad that I watched it. and if anybody beats Jesse Buckley this year,

shame, I say. Not that other performances weren't good, but nobody, she's playing on another level, another level. So this is where we're going to start to get into arguments. Because, as I said, I have movies that I watched,

that I checked out, that I loved, that might not even be on some of these lists that you see. see and you Google, the best movies in 2025. I don't see anybody having this movie on the list. There's a few movies on mine that I don't see anybody having a list. But it ain't their list. It's my list. And as I mentioned, if I've recommended

a movie enough times, then it's going to hit my list. I recommend this movie to everyone. Continue to do it. That is The Long Walk. This was directed by Francis Lawrence, of course, of Hunger Games fame. Um, it's star Cooper Hoffman, David Johnson, uh, and it is a Stephen King, based on the Stephen King, uh, novel.

Now, I don't want to give too much away about the movie, but essentially it's dystopian future. There's a game that's played. And before you, oh, it sounds like hunger games. Sounds like a running man. This was before both of them. Before battle royale. This was the, the OG. And it's a dystopian kind of sci-fi, psychics.

psychological horror. And these group of men, they volunteer, they put their names into this lottery. When they're chosen, they keep walking. And you just keep walking until you're the last person walking, and then you win a prize. And Mark Hamill's in this one. He plays the general. and the story here, as I mentioned, Jesse Buckley being the story of the, of Hamnet. The story here is, yes, it is both Cooper Hoffman and David Johnson's relationship, the chemistry, the fact that the two of them together have to take you on this walk together. and as Cooper is playing Raymond and David is Peter, they form this relationship and these dudes aren't supposed to have a relationship.

This would be kind of in it for themselves. And I'm just talking about just friends and just people just being able to have that human side come out here. And it does. Ben Wong is also in this movie from Karate Kid. And he's solid in it. score. I listen to it all the time, the score. But it's, it's not an easy watch, by the way. I've seen it twice. Not an easy watch, but you're so invested. It's almost, it really is like the warped reality show that it wants to be, that it's trying to be. You know, where, where running man is

more so, I guess, like really, you know, that locked in say on what, or the, um, statement about reality TV and how we are as a society. This does that, but you feel this in the way that you do when you watch these competition shows. You're learning each character. You're first set up when the networks do these things. They say, okay, here's the person we, we're going to introduce to you first. We think you're going to like this person. Here's this person. Here's their story. But then you're going to start to meet other people that you might actually even like more than our person that we're telling you that you're going to like. And that's what happens. and as good as, and Cooper Hoffman is brilliant in the movie.

He's great, really great as Ray. David Johnson is a megastar. He's a megastar. From Alien Romulus to this as Pete, I think he should have been nominated. He wasn't even talked about for nominations. This is an award nomination that was left on the table as the best supporting actor. David Johnson is legit in this movie.

But I loved this movie. I thought it was, I recommend it to everybody. And it's really high up in my list. It was a movie that I was not, I did see it in the theater, was not expecting anything from it, did not see a single trailer from it, wasn't familiar with the book, Doug it. So number four. Now, as I mentioned before, there were, I said,

I think I said two movies that were my most anticipated. list that actually made my list. Well, there are actually three. There are three. One of those was my number four, and that is Ryan Coogler's sinners. Now, this was a movie that I was anticipating because I anticipate everything Ryan Coogler does. I think the man is a genius. Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther movies, and now this one. What he does in the this movie. Now, kind of new, now I still think that the trailer itself, and this isn't a Ryan Cougar problem, this is a, sometimes the studio does this for some odd reason. They gave away way too much in the trailer itself, especially some of the Haley-Signfield stuff, but

it doesn't take away from how great this movie is. What Michael B. Jordan is able to do, and yet again, another collaboration of Ryan Cougler and Michael B. Jordan, and they take this movie, this time period movie and they take this film and they really introduce you to these two brothers played by Michael B. Jordan

and just when you think okay I'm so interested in these two kind of gangster brothers, twins and initially what you could say is I don't know if I'm going to see anybody other than Michael B. George

Jordan in that role. Well, not only do you totally forget Michael B. Jordan is, it's Michael B. Jordan. You see him as this character. You see him as both characters. And he's able to really make you believe that he's two different people with both smoke and stack. And you're like, yeah, you understand it. And that is some subtle things with the way that they're dressed, but it's, it's little things that they're saying, little bits of their personality that you understand. And it's a brilliant performance. Performance is by Michael B. Jordan. And then when you get into the whole vampire side of this,

the way that they play this lore and they give it to you in tidbits throughout it. And Jack O'Connell, another actor who's just been so solid in everything that he's done as the vampire in this movie, pretty terrifying. Haley Steinfeld doing some stuff that, you know, you forget she'd growing up. She's growing up. Remember from True Grit, you see her now, and this is a very sexy role for her, but it's also another solid performance where she's got to do one thing for first half of it, another thing for the second half of it. And yeah, it's just those two, well, three performances I just mentioned, but Miles Katten, who Ryan Coogler found, who plays Sammy, by the way, I mean, this is another performance from a kind of unknown who just blows you away from the second he shows up.

You're like, you've got a, he's taking you through this in the way that some of these other characters I mentioned in previous movies. I mentioned knives out. He takes you through it and he's telling you the story through his eyes. And there's things that these characters take you through. And then you couple that with the craziness of the vampire story itself. Delroy Lindo having a standout performance, which he, when does he not? Andrine Ward Hammond, who plays Ruthie. There's so many different, there's so many great performances overall.

Omar Benson Miller is always great. Jamie Lawson. Yeah, it's like this ensemble. And then what Ryan Cougar does as director, and as a storyteller sets this apart from just another vampire movie. There's just so much more to it. It's a character piece. It's emotional.

And those are the movies that I always like. So for me, that's why sinners comes up pretty high at number four. Okay, number three. Now, this is another argument piece for people. They're going to go, why is this so high on your list? Because I liked it. And because it told a lot of people about it. And because I love the way it made me feel.

And that is F1, the movie. Joseph Kaczynski. This guy is just putting out movies. And I think the reason that it's so high in my list is because Joseph Kaczynski is making movies in the vein of the films that I used to see when I was a kid in theaters. And he continues to do it. And he did it recently with Top Gun Maverick. And now he does it again with F1 movie. he's really finding his stride in how to make these things.

And I said this is another one of this is the second movie that was on my anticipated list. And one of the reasons it was on my anticipated list is, and I said this in my anticipated video, I'm not necessarily, I'm not even necessarily. I'm not a race car guy. I don't watch F1. I don't watch NASCAR. I don't watch any of this stuff. I don't.

But I love race car movies. It's like, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, know people who don't like baseball and they love baseball movies. That's how I feel with with race car movies. So I was like, okay, Brad Pitt, Joseph Kaczynski, Avia Bardem in a in a race car movie, sign me up. And it delivers and it's intense in the way that it shot. But the story again, as in this entire video, the unknowns or the up-and-coming actors coming in there, and just having a standout performance. And that's Damson Idris.

He plays the team member on the hot shot kind of rookie race car driver on the team that Brad Pitt has to join. Javier Barb Dem is the owner of the team and they're trying to make this team work. So they bring in Brad Pitt, who has one of the best race car names, maybe of all time in Sunny Hayes. What a great name. Cole trickle, Sunny Hayes, great race car name. But he joins the team. Sunny's very set in his ways, has a past of what he could have achieved, didn't do it, what he's struggling with, where he's been, joins the team.

Damns and Idris plays Joshua Pierce, who has potential, is on this kind of struggling team. This could be his last shot to actually make it, and they've got to come together. Candon, who is the engineer and puts together the cars and the love interest to Brad Pitt, she's always wonderful. She's got a great chemistry with Brad Pitt. And the cast that ensues, it also adds to it. And the race car scenes you're going to ask, well, how are those particular scenes? You feel like you're sitting in the car, the sound around it.

I mean, it was one that you should have seen in the theater if you didn't. you can still, if you have good surround sound, I would suggest cranking it up because it's, it's everything that you want from a movie like this that you hope to get, you get it. There's some predictable things here too. It is one of those movies to me that is the old school formulaic, if you will, at times.

But sometimes formulaic is good. Sometimes formulaic is like, yeah, that's how I wanted to feel. And, you know, even at the end of the movie, you're like, wait, is that going to happen? Maybe that's going to happen. Is that going to happen? And all that, pretty much what I thought was going to happen. But that's great. And that's how I felt about this one.

I felt great watching F1. It's a movie that I told everybody to check out. It's the first thing if people say, like, hey, F1 just hit on streaming. I didn't get a chance to watch it right now. Loved F1. Joseph Vizinski is another filmmaker to me right now, just making the type of rock music. that I like listening to. So for that, F1 is my number three.

Okay. So for a very long time, F1 was sitting on top my number one movie of the year for a while before I'd seen a handful of things. And I said, I don't know if anything's going to be to it. It's just like the way that I felt watching that movie. Then a movie comes along that I knew. nothing about, thought it was something completely different. And it just blew me away. That movie is my number two, and that is Derek C. and Francis Roofman.

Now, Roof Man, to me, I knew absolutely nothing about. I was talking about this on my live show. I've talked about it in general. I went to see this movie. I saw the poster for it, and the poster is very misleading. It makes it look like this goofy comedy that, you know, it's got Peter Dinklage on the, and Channing's hate him on the cover of it or the poster, and you're like, oh, this is some goofy thing. He's got sunglasses on and a teddy bear on his head.

I don't know what he's doing. This is going to be ridiculous. So it's like the toy? What is this? It's a true story, and I'll tell you why my opinion changed of going into this movie. I was walking into the theater, and I looked at the poster, and I saw directed by Derek C. and France. And I went, whoa, this is going to be a very different movie than I thought. Because Derek C. in France is traditionally known for making some pretty heavy stuff.

Blue Valentine, the place beyond the pines, the light between oceans, all heavy, heavy movies. Really good movies. Heavy movies. Now, that's what I thought now, as I was walking now, we're going to get a heavy movie. Not a heavy movie. Different movie for Derek C. and Friends. Not a goofy comedy. True story about this guy who was in the Army, I believe, was very detailed when he was.

he was there, put together plans, knew how to do things, but when he came back to the real world, couldn't fit it together. So what he started to do is started to, and this is not, this is just the beginning. So I'm not really ruining it. He is, this is part of the live story. He began to rob McDonald's. And like, not just one, McDonald's, McDonald's, McDonald's all over the place. He's robbing them and he's dropping through the roof and robbing them. So after that went south. Something else happens where he's and this is in the trailer for it.

He's camping out. I'm going to read the descriptions. I don't want to give away too much. So basically he's a charismatic criminal while on the run from the police. He hides in a space of a toy store and he adapts a new identity and becomes involved with an employee

beginning relationship as unlikely as it is risky. That's the synopsis of IMDP. And it sounds crazy, but especially once you know it's a true story. And this is one of the best performances I think Channing Tatum has ever given. And I like Channington. And I think this blends what he does really well in one movie. He's good at comedy. We know that from 21 jumps and other things. But again, it's not that kind of kind of kind of comedy.

He's been in these romantic movies. His chemistry with Kirsten Dunst is electric. They're great together. believable. And she is so damn likable in this as Lee Wainscott. She's so damn likable. She's just, she's a mom trying to just kind of get her things, keep her life intact, trying to manage being a mom. And she winds up getting involved with this dude who is maybe more perfect on paper. Something else is going on.

It's a solid cast, too. whether it's Keith Stanfield, Ben Mendelsohn, the Juno Temple. I loved this movie. I loved this movie. This was one, and nobody was talking about this one. This was one of those movies that I can't even tell you that when I was sitting around and people like, oh, people who know that I see movies and I do this,

I've been doing this for a while, they say, oh, any good movies I should see? I say, yeah, Roof Man. They go, what's that? Every single time. what's that? And then he'd tell him the cash, Channing Tatum, I like him. Kirsten Dantz, I like her.

And then you say, it's a true story. And when you just give a little bit of the premise of the true story, they go, really? That really happens? Yeah, watch it. Check it out. And it, to me, was one of the biggest surprises all year for me. My wife just recently watched it again.

I was like, this is one of those movies that if it's on, I'm just going to check it out because there's so many, there are these moments of, you see like real human behavior. And when you see what this dude did during this time and why he had to do it and why he made the choices he made, can you make really bad choices and still be a good person?

The answer to me, I think, is absolutely yes. And I think it's proven throughout this particular movie. But I love what Cheney Tandem does here. I think it's a must watch for people. If you haven't checked it out, you should check out. Especially during the holidays. You should check it out. So a roofman comes in number two for me on my list.

All right. So number one. Now, this is yet again, another movie that was on my most anticipated list. Now, when it was on my most anticipated list, it had a different name. They changed the name of it. The name of it was the Battle of Backton Cross. wound up being one battle after another. So I had an interesting journey with this movie.

When I saw this movie in the theater the first time, really liked it, really liked it. And I said, this is going to be one of those movies. People are going to be talking about. Maybe it's not for everybody. But it's just, it is more so of the Paul Thomas Anderson that we know and love. It is a very different kind of movie.

There's more action than that. stuff in this than he normally does, but it still had that kind of boogie nights feel to it in the way that it's just this like another movie that's longer but doesn't feel long. And I remember seeing the movie going, yeah, okay, this is, this is a very solid movie. Someone then said to me, and I can't remember it was a fan or whatever was. I said, you should really watch it again because it gets that much better on the rewatch. And I said, well, be the judge of that. So I went to and it was already going to be in my, it was pretty, it was pretty in my three or four when I went to see it. When I was putting together my list before I saw it a second time.

So my, it was, it was, it was, it was playing in the top three to four. So about two, three weeks ago, I rewatched it again with Ming. We did a reaction to it on this channel. And it was like, I couldn't believe how well everything else that, was playing really well for me the first time, played even better the second time. From Sean Penn's performance of what he's doing in this movie to the Vince McMahon walk and the ridiculous haircut, the crazy dialogue that's going on throughout the entire film, the setup in the beginning, leading us into this circumstance that everybody is put into. It just,

is such a epic film. And you're so engaged in the beginning where I've said this beforehand. I think the race is going to be between Leonardo DiCaprio and Marty, Marty Supreme and Timothy Chalomey. Because everybody's talking about Sean Penn in this movie. And rightfully so. He's fantastic and disappears into this role. Leonardo DiCaprio is always playing against being Leonardo DiCaprio.

Sean Penn can disappear into roles and he, yes, for a long time, he's Sean Penn and Sean Penn and yes, he's been a movie store for a long time. But you've seen him disappear. Leonardo DiCaprio has, is one of the biggest movie stars on the planet when you see him. He's got, you have to be able to say that's not Leo, that's Jordan Belfort. That's this person. That's this person. He, that is character in Revenant.

He's been able to do it. And he does it again here. He does it in this way where it's a different type of this vulnerable character. He's, he did what he had to do when he was younger. He's now on his own with his daughter, played by Chase Infinity, another performer that I knew nothing about,

never seen him before. And I said it, am I out of the theater reaction? I say it now. I said, who is that? She is going to be someone to watch. She is so good in this role, playing Leonardo Caprio's daughter, what she has to go through. She's got a great scene with Sean Penn at the end of this movie that is just top notch.

I do think it's a disservice that they went after Best Actress for her. I think she should have went for Best Supporting Actress. I think she would have won. I think she would have won. If she went to Best Supporting Actress. I think going after Best Actress was a, what? was too much. And I think she, you know, but she's going to be noticed,

and she should be noticed because she's so damn good at it. And the chemistry that she's got with Leonardo DiCaprio, you believe it that the relationship that they have, and he just wants to protect her. And when you have these perform, and Benicio del Toro, by the way, I think I said it in my out of the theater reaction. I was like, this is a performance that if it wasn't for Sean Pan,

I go give this guy the award immediately. He's so damn good. and he's already getting nominated for him and Sean Penn at the same time. They might steal votes from each other. But Paul Thomas Anderson puts together this movie and puts it at a pace. And it's like two hours and 45 minutes long, but it does, but never feels long. There are some movies sometimes just they feel so damn long. Oh, you could have cut 15, 20 minutes out of it.

Never feels like it with this movie. And watching it on that second time and knowing as soon as it was over saying, oh, I could watch this again. You'll watch this again real soon because of how it's set up the shots, the cinematography, the choices of how he introduces characters, by the way, and you're just walking through hallways with people and the music that's playing to set up the tension in it is brilliant. It's really a brilliant film. And it gets better and better every time you watch it. So for me, that's it.

That's my number one. that's my most, or my best, I should say, my best movies of 2025. I'm not sure what you guys are going to think. I love them. I love those movies. Those are my top ten movies that I enjoyed the most, and I recommend them to you guys. Now, I love to hear your list. Instead of telling me what I got wrong, tell me what your list is.

List and here are my top ten. Here are some that maybe you didn't mention at all that were really good, and if you didn't check it out, you should see it because that happens a lot, too. Secret Agent is another one that I would probably put as an honorable mention as well. So I would love to hear your thoughts. Let me know. Thanks for being here. Subscribe, comment. Have a wonderful, wonderful rest of your 2025.

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