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SMB Film Thread 2025

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Fletch73 said:
As it's the last day of the year what's everyone's 2025 top 10, then. Me:

  1. One Battle After Another
  2. Black Bag
  3. A House of Dynamite
  4. Sinners
  5. The Baltimorons
  6. Hallow Road
  7. If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
  8. Roofman
  9. The Fantastic 4
  10. Weapons
Honourable mention: Sentimental Value, Train Dreams, Warfare.
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Couple I haven't caught up with yet but what I've seen:

1. One Battle After Another
2. The Brutalist
3. Sinners
4. I Swear

Rest in no particular order
Black Bag
Weapons
Bring Her Back
Mission Impossible Final Reckoning
Frankenstein
Die My Love
 
Dog Tooth.
Totally nuts Greek film with sex, violence, incest themes. the lot.
Manipulative father keeps his teenage daughters locked down since birth in family home.
It's not for everyone!
Solid 7.
ITVX and Amazon.
 
My Top 11 (In tribute to Rob Reiner. Sadly, Spinal Tap II wasn't close to being a contender.)

1. It Was Just an Accident
2. One Battle After Another
3. Materialists
4. The Baltimorons
5. Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
6. I Swear
7. Blue Moon
8. Koln 75
9. Die My Love
10. Frankenstein
11. Roofman

Sinners, What Does That Nature Say to You and Companion were all in contention. I haven't seen the Brazilian film The Secret Agent, which topped many critics' lists.
 
I’ve barely seen anything from this year.

Superman
Fantastic Four
Jurassic World Evolution
Frankenstein
House of Dynamite.

I think that’s it. Probably put Frankenstein at the top.

If we are talking about films I’ve watched in 2025, then it’s a wholly different list!
 
Doogie Hauser said:
If we are talking about films I’ve watched in 2025, then it’s a wholly different list!
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My best older films I've watched this year (in no order but all 9 or 10/10):

Grave of the Fireflies [1988]
Glengarry Glen Ross [1992]
I Am Love [2009]
There's Still Tomorrow [2023]
The Worst Person in the World [2021]
Fail Safe [1964]
Mr. Klein [1976]
The Seed of the Sacred Fig [2024]
Experiment in Terror [1962]
The Girl with the Needle [2024]
Hell Drivers [1957]
All That Heaven Allows [1955]
Hannah and Her Sisters [1986]
Alias Nick Beal [1949]
I Am Cuba [1964]
The Inquisitor [1981]
The Arbor [2010]
The Queen of My Dreams [2023]
Das Boot [1981]
Yi Yi [2000]
Tampopo [1985]
 
Fletch73 said:
As it's the last day of the year what's everyone's 2025 top 10, then. Me:

  1. One Battle After Another
  2. Black Bag
  3. A House of Dynamite
  4. Sinners
  5. The Baltimorons
  6. Hallow Road
  7. If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
  8. Roofman
  9. The Fantastic 4
  10. Weapons
Honourable mention: Sentimental Value, Train Dreams, Warfare.
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Might have posted a different list recently but who cares?

1. Deliver Me From Nowhere
2. One Battle after Another
3. The Mastermind
4. Train Dreams
5. A Real Pain

The Bob Dylan one would be #4 but not sure was it last year or this
 
Fletch73 said:
My best older films I've watched this year (in no order but all 9 or 10/10):

Grave of the Fireflies [1988]
Glengarry Glen Ross [1992]
I Am Love [2009]
There's Still Tomorrow [2023]
The Worst Person in the World [2021]
Fail Safe [1964]
Mr. Klein [1976]
The Seed of the Sacred Fig [2024]
Experiment in Terror [1962]
The Girl with the Needle [2024]
Hell Drivers [1957]
All That Heaven Allows [1955]
Hannah and Her Sisters [1986]
Alias Nick Beal [1949]
I Am Cuba [1964]
The Inquisitor [1981]
The Arbor [2010]
The Queen of My Dreams [2023]
Das Boot [1981]
Yi Yi [2000]
Tampopo [1985]
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Once Upon A Time In America
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Godfather Part II
Excalibur
Local Hero
Spirited Away
The Thing
Vertigo
12 Years A Slave
Groundhog Day
Stalker
Lawrence of Arabia
Jackie Brown
Some Like It Hot
Ran
Blow Out
Naked Lunch
Strange Days
Amarcord
 
Monty Pigeon said:
My Top 11 (In tribute to Rob Reiner. Sadly, Spinal Tap II wasn't close to being a contender.)

1. It Was Just an Accident
2. One Battle After Another
3. Materialists
4. The Baltimorons
5. Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
6. I Swear
7. Blue Moon
8. Koln 75
9. Die My Love
10. Frankenstein
11. Roofman

Sinners, What Does That Nature Say to You and Companion were all in contention. I haven't seen the Brazilian film The Secret Agent, which topped many critics' lists.
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Where did you see The Baltimorons? I can’t get find it anywhere.
 
Amokachi said:
Might have posted a different list recently but who cares?

1. Deliver Me From Nowhere
2. One Battle after Another
3. The Mastermind
4. Train Dreams
5. A Real Pain

The Bob Dylan one would be #4 but not sure was it last year or this
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Don't know how others haven't got The Mastermind on their lists...very good. Didn't like Deliver Me from Nowhere as the love interest felt like a made for TV romance. Bring Her Back would be in my top five. Exceptional Sally Hawkins who normally irritates me.
1. One Battle after Another
2. Bring Her Back
3, The Mastermind
4. It was just an Accident
5. Weapons
 
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