Movie Recap 2025

Last year, when it comes to movies, was probably one of the best ever in my life. I got to watch some amazing flicks and have some great moments binging movies myself or watching along with my family.

I went through 50 movies total, and because of that, the summaries will be much shorter than in other recaps. I will, however write some highlights and maybe a few rankings later on.

Movies I watched in 2025

I’ll go through the movies and share how present they are in my mind today. I’ll use the film emoji (🎞) for movies watched in theaters, and the sparkle emoji (✨) for movies that were new to me this year. All the others are movies I had seen before.

January

• 🎞️ Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - An actually fantastic time at the cinemas, Jim Carrey carries this one! Shadow is cool.
• 🎞️ The Moon - A korean movie about going to space, it’s so incredibly melodramatic I kinda remember it fondly.
• Interstellar - Absolute cinema, what an incredible movie, what a soundtrack. Just, everything.
• ✨ Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning - Not a bad Mission Impossible.
• ✨ Inside Man - This one was a weirdly directed crime movie, but there’s a PSP on it.

February

• ✨ Back in Action - A family comedy spy film, kinda meh but there’s a Nintendo Switch on it.
• 🎞️ Mufasa: The Lion King - Saw it at a matinee for free, no complaints, I brought my PSP with me.
• Shrek 2 - The best Shrek movie, and a fantastic movie overall.

March

• 🎞️ Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - Don’t remember it much but it has Godzilla on it, and its pink.
• Avengers: Infinity War - A great Marvel movie, watched at home with my sister who was visiting.
• 🎞️ Mickey 17 - My sister chose this due to the actor, not family friendly and Mark Ruffalo plays Trump, but cool sci-fi.
• Batman: Mask of the Phantasm - My sister and I watched it and cried together because this is the best Batman film there is.

April

• ✨ The Forge - A kinda random Christian film about a rebellious kid who plays basketball and videogames too much.
• ✨ Ford v Ferrari - The cinematography here was just excellent and I kinda need a rewatch, I started it halfway through.
• 🎞️ Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith - This movie had a rerelease for the anniversary and I couldn’t be happier. This was a fantastic experience and seeing it on the big screen is something I’m grateful for.

May

• 🎞️ Thunderbolts* - A Marvel movie with heroes who actually have emotions and stuff again, I loved it!
• ✨ 21 Blackjack - I watched this in two days and had a pretty good time, a very 2000s movie.
• 🎞️ Karate Kids: Legends - I mean of course I would go watch a movie that mixes both the old movies, the remake and the Cobra Kai series in one film, I enjoyed it but it was way too short.

June

• 🎞️ Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning - This one was way too long and lots of exposition but the action was mindblowing to me, a really good ending for the whole franchise I think, if a bit too nostalgic.
• World War Z - A random pick on a Sunday afternoon, it was cool I guess.
• Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer - Another random pick on the same Sunday afternoon, I still love it though.
• Transformers One - This is a legendary movie, one of the few I’ve written a blogpost about, so go and watch it okay? Masterpiece.
• Tangled - My favorite of the 3D animated Disney films, I love the songs here, they are way too good.
• ✨ The Fugitive - Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones best each other, awesome thriller, and a wonderful dad movie.
• ✨ Arrival - A very good film of speculative fiction, which I expected to be more hard sci-fi but it’s more philosophical.
• How to Train Your Dragon 3 - A wonderful ending to the franchise, I enjoyed it! But I was busy while watching it in the background.
• ✨ A Minecraft Movie - Didn’t watch it fully either, just some parts, but it was genuinely hilarious, I couldn’t believe how crazy it was.

July

• 🎞️ F1 - The Formula One movie featuring Brad Pitt and some other people I forget, I loved how this one looked though, the races were awesome.
• ✨ Grave of the Fireflies - I thought this movie wouldn’t be a big deal, but it broke me… I watched it with my sister, and after it was over, we stayed, absolutely silent, until the credits finished. Gut-wrenching.
• ✨ The Blob - This classic movie from the 50s is not very good but also rather memorable, why did I watch it? A podcast mentioned it.

August

• Aliens - Alien with more guns and epic action.
• ✨ Alien 3 - Aliens with annoying characters and ugly puppet work.
• ✨ Alien Resurrection - Alien with very very weird writing and wacky characters.
• ✨ Prometheus - Back to horror and dread and a very cool android.
• ✨ Overcomer - Random Christian film about a girl who likes trail running and there’s family drama.
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - The title says it all, a true classic, excellent effects as well.
• ✨ Alien: Covenant - Alien again but now they are white and ugly until the last one which is cool.

September

• ✨ Alien: Romulus - Alien, but newer, the effects were absolutely mindblowing, a good mix of practical and CGI.
• 🎞️ The Fantastic 4: First Steps - Another movie with cool scenes in space, and retrofuturism for the win.
• ✨ Along Came a Spider - A crime thriller, you won’t see the twist coming here, but the first scene is very over the top.
• AVP: Alien vs Predator - Speaking of over the top, this is just a crazy fun popcorn flick uniting the two biggest franchises with aliens on them.

October

• ✨ Ocean’s Eleven - A masterfully done heist film, all the characters are so fun, good interactions and plot. They don’t make them like they used to.
• 🎞️ TRON: Ares - Decided to watch this one as I was hyped by the trailers and it was rather enjoyable to me. However, it pales in comparison to the next two films.
• ✨ TRON - This is the OG and the effects hold up decently, with some nostalgia googles. I actually had a great time here! A very weird fun movie.
• TRON: Legacy - Now this, this was good. I loved it and it was awesome, the soundtrack is simply amazing to this day, the aesthetics are top notch.
• ✨ KPop Demon Hunters - Put this on Netflix and found myself having a blast and actually getting emotional as the movie kept going, some great songs and a nice story”

November

• 🎞️ Predator: Badlands - A random choice that turned out to be a great movie! This had some great buddy comedy stuff while also featuring some really cool action moments and character development!

December

• ✨ Dead Poets Society - I love everything about this movie, this is a masterpiece, until that finale. Oh man, I’m crying again.
• ✨ Godzilla Minus One Minus Color - I love everything about this movie, this is a masterpiece, this time in B&W. Oh man I’m crying again.
• 🎞️ Avatar: Fire and Ash - I don’t love everything about this movie, it’s not a masterpiece, but the visual effects are absolutely top notch.

Top 5 movies I saw on theaters

1. Star Wars: Episode 3 - Revenge of the Sith (technically a rewatch too, I don’t care, this was peak in cinemas)
2. Avatar: Fire and Ash
3. F1: The Movie
4. Sonic The Hedgehog 3
5. The Fantastic 4: First Steps

Top 5 movies new to me

1. Ocean’s Eleven
2. Dead Poets Society
3. Godzilla Minus One Minus Color (technically watched the original already but I don’t care)
4. KPop Demon Hunters
5. Alien: Romulus

Top 5 movies watched again

1. Interstellar
2. Aliens
3. TRON: Legacy
4. Transformers One
5. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

Some random stats and thoughts

• I watched a grand total of 50 films this year, from where:
  • 14 were seen in theaters! A little more than one per month.
  • 23 were seen for the first time! That’s almost two new to me films per month.
  • 13 were seen again this year! I don’t need to say how many those are per month.

• I only watched a total of 9 animated movies this year, and that’s counting Mufasa: The Lion King. It’s usually a favourite genre of mine, didn’t even represent 20% of my movie watching this time…

• Perhaps not any single TRON movie can be considered a masterpiece, but as a whole, the franchise is honestly pretty awesome, and I’m glad it has managed to exist, even if it only is once every decade or so, and never quite landing.

• I love how, despite how different all the Alien movies can get, I eventually just learned what to expect and embraced that they always end or get retconned in a very dire way.

• I am really so so happy that I watched Revenge of the Sith on theaters, I felt in awe the whole time, a simply glorious feast to the eyes, can’t say it enough.

• Again, Grave of the Fireflies late at night with my little sister was incredibly heart-wrenching, we just kept watching it and seeing how things happened and crying a bit… and I’m seriously tearing up a little as I remember it right now.

• I watched The Blob from YouTube while at work, it was definitely interesting to have it as a background noise at first, and then for it to somehow get actually interesting. Good stuff.

• Was gonna watch One Battle After Another on theaters, but the first 5 minutes were so uncomfortable to watch—it was me and my parents and it got weird quick—which is why we went for TRON: Ares instead, even if it wasn’t that great, it still led me to the rest of the TRON movies, and of course, the masterpiece that is the TRON: Uprising animated show, so, it was the right choice.

• We were very close to leaving theaters too for Mickey 17—again, not a very good movie to watch as a family—but we pushed through it, I wonder where the line goes when it comes to what it takes to make us leave a movie.

Finishing thoughts

And well, those were quite a lot of movies! Almost one movie per week was watched in 2025 by me. That is something I’m pretty happy with.

The Alien saga, the Tron saga, all of those dad movies or random movies with gambling related themes, I have no idea what happened but the point is that it’s over, and this new year is already looking pretty good as well! But that’s something I’ll bring up when the 2026 recap comes along.

For now, this is it, enjoy the read!