{"id":6351,"date":"2025-12-28T16:36:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T22:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/?p=6351"},"modified":"2025-12-29T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:08:00","slug":"a-noteworthy-event-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2025\/12\/a-noteworthy-event-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies I Saw in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I don’t think I’ll see any more movies in the remaining few days of this year, so here’s a list of every motion picture I saw for the first time in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw 49 movies for the first time in 2025; this is fewer than the number of movies I’ve seen in any of the previous 10 years. I would attribute this relatively low value to two things. First, I am working on my graduate degree, and this year I completed four courses and, so, a few times when I would have watched a movie, I was busy working on schoolwork. Second, I was feeling pretty down during the second half of the year and often did not feel like watching a movie. In fact, only 21 of the movies on this list are ones that I watched during the second half of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw four films at the theater this year, and nine films while on an airplane. Three of these films are animated. The shortest film on this list is 75-minute long Velocipastor<\/em>, and the longest is The Great Race<\/em>, which is 160 minutes long. These are also, coincidentally, the two lowest-rated films on this list. Velocipastor <\/em>is also the first movie I saw this year (watched with my kids on January 3rd). The most recent movie I saw this year is Wake Up Dead Man<\/em>, which Brycie and I watched on December 26th. The month in which I watched the most movies is June, with nine. The month in which I saw the fewest movies is September, when I saw only Cool Runnings<\/em>. The oldest movie on this list is The Reluctant Dragon<\/em>, from 1941. The newest movie on this list is Wake Up Dead Man<\/em>, which was just released a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, next to each movie’s title is a rating of 0 (complete waste of time) to 10 (among the best films I’ve ever seen). The third column indicates the year in which the film was released. Film titles in bold print<\/strong> are ones that I saw at the theater. The English title of non-English films appears in parenthesis after the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TITLE<\/th>RATING<\/th>YEAR OF RELEASE<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
28 Days Later<\/td>8<\/td>2002<\/td><\/tr>
Ainda Estou Aqui (I’m Still Here)<\/td>8<\/td>2024<\/td><\/tr>
All of Me<\/td>6<\/td>1984<\/td><\/tr>
Anora<\/td>8<\/td>2024<\/td><\/tr>
Argylle<\/td>8<\/td>2024<\/td><\/tr>
Bedazzled<\/td>4<\/td>2000<\/td><\/tr>
Children of the Corn<\/td>5<\/td>1984<\/td><\/tr>
Come Play<\/td>6<\/td>2020<\/td><\/tr>
Companion<\/td>8<\/td>2025<\/td><\/tr>
Conclave<\/td>8<\/td>2024<\/td><\/tr>
Cool Runnings<\/td>5<\/td>1993<\/td><\/tr>
Death of a Unicorn<\/td>5<\/td>2025<\/td><\/tr>
Death of Stalin, the<\/td>7<\/td>2017<\/td><\/tr>
Depravity<\/td>5<\/td>2024<\/td><\/tr>
Elio<\/td>6<\/td>2025<\/td><\/tr>
Emilia P\u00e9rez<\/td>5<\/td>2024<\/td><\/tr>
Evil Dead, the<\/td>6<\/td>1981<\/td><\/tr>
Fantastic Four: First Steps, the<\/strong><\/td>6<\/td>2025<\/td><\/tr>
Final Destination<\/td>5<\/td>2000<\/td><\/tr>
Final Destination 2<\/td>5<\/td>2003<\/td><\/tr>
Final Destination 3<\/td>4<\/td>2006<\/td><\/tr>
Final Destination 5<\/td>4<\/td>2011<\/td><\/tr>
Final Destination, the<\/td>4<\/td>2009<\/td><\/tr>
Final Destination Bloodlines<\/strong><\/td>6<\/td>2025<\/td><\/tr>
Fish Called Wanda, a<\/td>5<\/td>1988<\/td><\/tr>
Great Race, the<\/td>3<\/td>1965<\/td><\/tr>
IF<\/td>4<\/td>2024<\/td><\/tr>
It Ends With Us<\/td>4<\/td>2024<\/td><\/tr>
Joker: Folie \u00e0 Deux<\/td>4<\/td>2024<\/td><\/tr>
Lilo and Stitch<\/td>4<\/td>2002<\/td><\/tr>
Naked Gun, the<\/strong><\/td>8<\/td>2025<\/td><\/tr>
National Treasure<\/td>5<\/td>2004<\/td><\/tr>
Nickel Boys<\/td>5<\/td>2024<\/td><\/tr>
Real Pain, a<\/td>8<\/td>2024<\/td><\/tr>
Reluctant Dragon, the<\/td>5<\/td>1941<\/td><\/tr>
Return of Swamp Thing, the<\/td>4<\/td>1989<\/td><\/tr>
Sand, the<\/td>5<\/td>2015<\/td><\/tr>
Shallow Hal<\/td>4<\/td>2001<\/td><\/tr>
Soldier’s Story, a<\/td>8<\/td>1984<\/td><\/tr>
Straume (Flow)<\/td>9<\/td>2024<\/td><\/tr>
Substance, the<\/td>4<\/td>2024<\/td><\/tr>
Superman<\/strong><\/td>6<\/td>2025<\/td><\/tr>
Swamp Thing<\/td>5<\/td>1982<\/td><\/tr>
Twisters<\/td>4<\/td>2024<\/td><\/tr>
VelociPastor<\/td>3<\/td>2017<\/td><\/tr>
Wake Up Dead Man<\/td>8<\/td>2025<\/td><\/tr>
Woman in Cabin 10, the<\/td>7<\/td>2025<\/td><\/tr>
Woman in the Yard, the<\/td>5<\/td>2025<\/td><\/tr>
Zombeavers<\/td>5<\/td>2014<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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