The Best Films of 2025

About this episode

The hosts count down their favorite movies of 2025, discussing both disappointments and surprises.

It's that time of year again. We're counting down Derek, Jeff, and Amir's favorite movies of last year. 2025 was a year of great movies but also a year of crushing disappointments: many films we were looking forward to the most fizzled out. Fortunately that makes room for plenty of big surprises and dark horses in our top ten lists. What made the cut? What were some of the honorable mentions? Tune in and find out!

People in this episode

Hosts: Derek Wong, Amir Touray, Jeff Zhang

Topics covered

• film reviews
• top movies
• disappointments
• surprises
• countdown

Keywords

• best films
• 2025 movies
• movie countdown
• film disappointments
• film surprises

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