My 40 Favorite Movies of 2025

 I didn't want to make a whole big thing of it, and originally intended on making this into a top 15 list, but I felt like including a few more things, as this was a pretty mid-heavy year for movies -- not a lot of easy top fives, but loads that belong in the teens and twenties. So just like last year, I won't be flashing images in this one, and the write-ups are going to be very brief. Hopefully it's an easy read. 

Also, as usual, this is an opinion list, so don't get all mad when you don't see the thing you like on it, or as high as you'd want it. Take that frustration and all of your opinions and make your own list, type that list up, and put it in the comments section. Don't walk away angry, we're here to celebrate movies, after all. So enjoy yourself, and enjoy how different our opinions are, life is way more fun with variety. 

No more filler text, let's get on with it. 

Every Taskmaster contestant ranked (UK series 1-20)

I only started watching Taskmaster around series 10-11, so I'm hardly a new fan, but I haven't been around since the very beginning. I knew about the show around 2016 but never watched it because the format sounded very uninteresting to me at the time, as I was more of a fan of traditional British panel comedy (Would I Lie To You, Was It Something I Said, Big Fat Quiz, etc.) so I dismissed it. In a way I'm glad I did, because it meant I had dozens and dozens of episodes to watch when I finally came around to it, and at this point I can safely say it's one of my top 5 favorite TV shows of all time as I've watched through most of it roughly 6-7 times. 

My 50 Favorite Movies of 2024

I may have forgotten to do one of these lists last year, which is pretty disappointing to me, since even though I have very few people following these posts, I like to keep a sort of historical record of the things I used to think. It's always fun to look back on previous lists I've done to see how much my opinion has changed over time, like when I put The Perks Of Being A Wallflower as my #2 favorite movie of 2012, only to rewatch it and give it something along the lines of 5/10. 

Anyway, this isn't a post about 2023 - though I may need to work on getting one of those out soon - because I'm looking back at the most recent finished year, which had a whole bunch of interesting and surprising movies. In spite of having no perfect score-worthy movies, 2024 may well be the best movie year of the decade so far, and to reflect that I've decided to make this list into a true behemoth. I'm doing a top 50.

As usual, this is all opinion, and I'm going to try to keep my thoughts pretty minimal. I don't feel like spending 3 days typing this thing up, after all. So without further adieu, here's a big ole list of some movies I liked.

All Tony Scott films ranked

It started off as an accident, a few random Tony Scott rewatches because I was going through a Denzel phase and wanted to see how I felt about Unstoppable and Crimson Tide years later. Then I decided to see how a few older Tom Cruise movies aged, so I did a Top Gun/Days Of Thunder double. Well, before I knew it I had seen a good chunk of Tony Scott's filmography and found myself enjoying all of them even more the second time watching them. At that point I was committed. In his lifetime, Scott directed 16 features, and I was going to watch (or rewatch) all of them. And now that I've done this, what do I do with it? Make a list, of course. So I'm gonna rank all of his directorial efforts from least-favorite to most-favorite. Keep in mind these are all pretty fresh in my mind and I don't have a nostalgic connection to almost any of them at all, so I'm just gonna be coming at this whole list essentially as a new convert -- someone who wasn't a fan of Tony Scott who has become a very big fan in a very short period of time. 

I guess I'll get started now so as not to become like an online recipe where you scroll past 80 pages of anecdotes and the history of cooking before finally seeing how much flour to put in a cake. My least favorite Tony Scott movie and the first on my list is, unsurprisingly...

My Top 25 Movies of 2022

2022 was a step up for movies over the past couple, and I hope this list reflects that.  

I've done a terrible job at keeping up on writing any kind of reviews for the movies I've been watching over the past few years, but even though I'm a little later on this than I would usually aim to be with a 2022 countdown, I'm still happy that I've gotten this done at all. I watched about 90-100 movies from this last year, and these are my favorite ones. At least, as I see them right now. I really want to start doing a series of redos on these lists that show how much my opinion has changed over the years, but that's for another time. Anyway, here is the list.

Also, there are too many movies for me to cover in honorable mentions, so if your favorite isn't on here, just pretend it barely missed the cut if that helps you sleep at night.

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Directed by Jordan Peele