All of the new releases I saw in 2025 ranked in order from most best to least best:
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
The revolution
Came and went and came again
And it pops for you
Weapons (Zach Cregger)
Those kids and their arms
Their devilish, pointed arms
Where did they run to?
No Other Land (Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor)
A land, a conflict
Confronted, demolished, torn
Who fears the camera?
Presence (Steven Soderbergh)
A ghost in the house
Can you feel it? In the air?
Watching, still watching
The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania)
Hear a call, a life
Listen as it fades away
See who fears her voice
Sinners (Ryan Coogler)
To sin and to save
Let the music absolve you
Break out the banjo
Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie)
The road to the top
Is paved with white plastic balls
They ping then they pong
No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)
When the work dries up
And paper loses its life
Stay above the fold
Mistress Dispeller (Elizabeth Lo)
To save a marriage
She will go undercover
And bring out the truth
Friendship (Andrew DeYoung)
New neighbor, new friend
So fast, it all falls apart
Down in the sewer
Companion (Drew Hancock)
The perfect girlfriend
Okay, maybe not perfect
But whomst among us…
Universal Language (Matthew Rankin)
I’m in Winnipeg
Frozen money, guided tours
Tehran, Canada
Mickey 17 (Bong Joon-ho)
Too many Mickeys
Doing all sorts of fun chores
One at a time, please
Wake Up Dead Man (Rian Johnson)
A murder most foul
Time to call in the big gun
Can he do it again?
Eddington (Ari Aster)
A town on the brink
Masks, tearing them asunder
And that’s just the start
Eephus (Carson Lund)
A goodbye outing
A diamond on its way out
Same for all the men
A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow)
Something incoming
Oh brother, it’s a big one
Mondays, am I right?
New You See Me: Now You Don’t (Ruben Fleischer)
It’s movie magic
It’s a movie, there’s magic
And product placement
Mountainhead (Jesse Armstrong)
Four titans away
For a relaxing weekend
Nothing too crazy
Bad Shabbos (Daniel Robbins)
A stressful dinner
Some untimely laxatives
Many bad choices
Highest 2 Lowest (Spike Lee)
He cast Jeffrey Wright
To be a hardened street guy
I don’t think it worked
Slam Zuckert is a municipal bureaucrat. He sees a lot of movies and reads a lot of books and sometimes writes about them. His favorite movie is There Will Be Blood, his favorite mathematician is Georg Cantor, and his least favorite mathematician is Leopold Kronecker.
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