2025 Wrap-Up

If you're just interested in my top ten, you can skip my preamble and other categories by clicking here. As 2026 dawns, I'm less certain than ever where this art form I love so much is headed. The financial health of the business continues to falter.

Marty Supreme

"I have a purpose. And if you think that's some sort of blessing, it's not. It means I have an obligation to see a very specific thing through. And with that obligation comes sacrifice."

Avatar: Fire and Ash

For the first time since the 90s, James Cameron has released two movies in the same decade.

The Housemaid

"Juice is a privilege, and we don't drink it out of a dirty glass."

Ella McCay

"The problem with being a tight ass is you never know when your ass is right."

Wicked: For Good

"It's not lying. It's looking at things another way."

100 Nights of Hero

“Nothing much was supposed to happen to me. I was supposed to get married, have children, do needlepoint, I guess, then die.”

Nuremberg

"We are able to do away with domestic tyranny only when we make all men answerable to the law, so that it can never happen again."

Sisu: Road to Revenge

Sisu has had a strange life. Made by the same team that gave us Rare Exports, it landed fairly quietly at TIFF 2022. Its reception was warm enough, however, to be picked up for distribution. And although its US release didn't light the box office on fire, it

Hamnet

While the 21st century has been marked by impressive auteurs getting sucked up by a Hollywood obsessed with franchises, never to return to their prior form, this year has already provided a few counterpoints. Although Chloé Zhao was probably always more likely to emerge than most, given just how much

Keeper

With Longlegs, director Osgood Perkins burst onto the scene. It may have been his fourth movie, but it represented a stark evolution of his style into something more technically precise, more tonally playful, while still staring into the darkness. That shift, combined with Neon's brilliant marketing and audience

The Running Man

"Bloodlust Is our birthright. Set it free!"