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The Best Movies of 2025

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Get Displate's premium metal posters with up to 40% off by using the code STORIES at https://displate.com/l/stories We're nearing the end of 2025, which means it's time to reflect back on another year of cinema, and discuss my favorite movies. 0:00 Eternity 3:11 Intro + Honorable Mentions 4:42 No Other Choice 6:57 Honorable Mentions 2 7:31 Roofman 9:28 Honorable Mentions 3 9:50 If I Had Legs I’d Kick You 11:52 Sorry, Baby 13:44 Train Dreams 16:09 The Cannes Corner 16:45 Sentimental Value 18:05 Splitsville 19:31 Honorable Mentions 4 20:28 Promising Movies I Haven’t Seen Yet 21:35 Honorable Mentions 5 22:23 Sinners 24:12 Warfare + 2000 Meters to Andrivvka 27:21 One Battle After Another 30:02 A Christmas Gift! Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-the-11-best-movies-of-2025 -- SECOND CHANNEL -- @LikeStoriesUntold -- SUPPORT MY WORK -- Nebula: https://nebula.tv/lsoo Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LikeStoriesofOld Leave a One-Time Donation: https://www.paypal.me/TomvanderLinden -- FOLLOW ME -- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LikeStoriesofOld Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tom.vd.linden Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/tomvanderlinden.bsky.social Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/tomvanderlinden/ -- CONTACT -- Business inquiries: lsoo@standard.tv Say hi: likestoriesofold@gmail.com Music licensed through Musicbed. Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself: https://fm.pxf.io/c/3532571/1347628/16252

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We’re nearing the end of 2025, and in this video I look back on the year in cinema by sharing my favorite films—trying to keep it to 10, failing, and landing on 11 (plus a mountain of honorable mentions). I open with a late addition that genuinely surprised me: Eternity, a goofy-sounding afterlife premise that, for me, becomes a sincere rumination on how our choices lock out other lives and how we learn to embrace the one we got. From there I move through films that capture the absurdity of modern society, the strange ways we rationalize comfort, and the quiet terror of realizing how easily we can be shaped by systems we think we’re above. Along the way, I connect movies through themes that make for great double features: No Other Choice as a darkly exhilarating critique of lifestyle-enslavement; Roofman as a study in charisma, judgment, and consequences; If I Had Legs I’d Kick You as a visceral portrait of overwhelm and solidarity; and Sorry, Baby as a tender, funny, painful depiction of trauma freezing time. I also talk about Train Dreams and its witness-like perspective on a life swallowed by history, my Cannes highlights (Sentimental Value and the much-missed kind of comedy Splitsville), the war-movie pairing of Warfare and 2000 Meters to Andrivvka, and I end with a film I already suspect will be a future classic: Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another—an epic that asks what it means to engage power, legacy, and the fight we can’t finish in our own lifetime.

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