Best/favourite film of 2025 (and why)

[JackHandy]

When it comes to Hollywood, the sorts of movies they release now, and have been releasing for at least the last fifteen years or so, none of it appeals to me. At some point, it felt like they went from character driven plots, movies with real story arcs and heart and soul, to plot driven, special-effects, big-dumb, hollow time-sinks. I swear, ever so often a trailer will sucker me in, and I'll think it's going to be this moving, epic thing like E.T., only to get in there and within ten minutes be rolling my eyes like Side Show Bob during an episode of MacGyver. Superman is the latest example. When that trailer hit, I thought we were getting a return to the Reeves style movies. But nope. Didn't care about Superman, Clark, Lois, his dog... and certainly not his sister, which, brief as she was, was absolutely abhorrent. I didn't care if the world was saved, I didn't care about anything. I just sat there and watched it and left. It was just awful. And that's how I basically feel when I dare to see anything coming out of Hollywood these days. Hollow.