💬 Weekly Question: The Oscars are almost here - so, what were your favorite films of 2025?
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The 98th Academy Awards are this weekend (March 15th). I haven’t watched the ceremony in nearly a decade now and I’m long past taken the Oscars themselves very seriously for a litany of reasons, it’s still a good prompt to discuss amongst ourselves the films that were released in 2025. Long story short:
What were your favorite films of 2025 (and why)?
I haven’t seen nearly enough of the most acclaimed films released last year, as my past three months - what we refer to as Awards Season - has been monopolized by moving into a new house, home renovations, and work. While I’m finally getting to screeners and back to the cinema, I just don’t feel I’m ready to share my opinions about much except to say I’m pulling for Sinners from what I have seen — and because months later I still think about it all the time. What a brilliant allegory for Black art/culture in America. Did you love it as much as me?
Now, your turn. Oh, and don’t just post your take either. Weigh in on others’. Tell them why they’re wrong (or right) — politely, of course. Maybe most importantly, tell me what I should be prioritizing right now!
“Train Dreams” and “Sinners” were the most beautiful, memorable, meaningful, and valuable film experiences this last year.
What art!!! I wish I could have caught “Train Dreams” in theatres.
“Sinners” is a must in theatres if you can.
Well I think Sorry, Baby was an Academy Award oversight, easily better than the ten movies for Best Picture and competitive in the director and actor for Eva Victor too.
Two movies that I like better than movies nominated for Academy Awards this year are By Design and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, neither of which had a hope in hell of ever being nominated (though Sanatorium should by all rights win every animation-related award in the world).
One movie that is not in the 'big' categories but should be, that I hope wins its technical category of hair and makeup, is The Ugly Stepsister. It should have also been in costuming and production design, and frankly should have blown out Frankenstein (and Avatar, angry demon emoji) on all those marks.
I haven't seen No Other Choice but a) I love Park Chan-Wook and b) the short clips and trailers I have seen have been incredible and I'm very confident that this movie and Sorry, Baby are the real 'snubs' of this round.
I would say other than that the Oscars merely competently reflect a year of cinema that was mostly merely competent. It's okay, 2026 has already started off well.