123. The Best Movies of 2025, according to Deep Cut (with discussions on Sinners, Wake Up Dead Man, Left Handed Girl, Sirat, Magellan, It Was Just an Accident, Sentimental Value, Black Bag, and MORE!)

Sorry Baby, but it’s One Battle After Another, as we clash and debate our favorite films of 2025! We’re covering obligatory mentions of the biggest films of the year and picking up our Weapons to dunk on some that we’re Regretting You watched. Which of these films will we look back on with strong Sentimental Value, 28 Years Later? Which are winners, which are Sinners? I’m afraid you’re going to have to Wake Up Dead Man from your Dreams (Sex Love), some might even call that a Resurrection, because you’ve got No Other Choice but to listen and find out. Links Wilson's Reviews: News from Home, Eat Drink Man Woman Ben's Reviews: Avatar: Fire and Ash, What Does That Nature Say to You Eli’s Sinners Review Ben’s Kinetoscope Piece: The Spirits in the Medium List: Full List of films discussed on Letterboxd List: Deep Cut’s Top 12 of 2025 Tell us your faves at our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com Timestamps: 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:58 General 2025 thoughts 00:12:08 Non-2025 gems 00:16:22 2025 on Deep Cut 00:20:16 Eli's fave Letterboxd reviews from Wilson and Ben 00:21:46 Obligatory Mentions 00:22:06 Marty Supreme dir. Josh Safdie 00:24:08 The Secret Agent dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho 00:25:44 Frankenstein dir. Guillermo del Toro 00:28:38 Sentimental Value dir. Joachim Trier 00:30:59 Hamnet dir. Chloé Zhao 00:38:36 Hamnet spoiler 00:40:27 If I Had Legs I'd Kick You dir. Mary Bronstein 00:42:27 Bugonia dir. Yorgos Lanthimos 00:44:13 Kpop Demon Hunters dir. Maggie Kang & Chris Appelhans 00:46:55 Train Dreams dir. Clint Bentley 00:48:49 Avatar: Fire and Ash dir. James Cameron 00:54:30 Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning dir. Christopher McQuarrie 00:56:48 Eddington dir. Ari Aster 00:57:14 Wicked For Good dir. Jon M. Chu 00:58:16 No Other Choice dir. Park Chan-wook 00:59:48 Magellan and Phantosmia dir. Lav Diaz 01:01:54 The Phoenician Scheme dir. Wes Anderson 01:05:34 Weapons dir. Zach Cregger 01:12:28 Materialists dir. Celine Song 01:13:40 Materialists Spoiler 01:18:02 Regretting You dir. Josh Boone 01:19:38 Sirat dir. Oliver Laxe 01:22:27 Sirat Spoiler 01:25:41 Sirat Spoiler 2 01:26:19 Deep Cut Upkeep Overview 01:28:35 Honorable Mentions 01:28:40 Viet and Nam dir. Truong Minh Quy 01:29:14 Blue Moon dir. Richard Linklater 01:30:25 Boys Go to Jupiter dir. Julian Glander 01:31:04 Baby dir. Marcelo Caetano 01:31:33 Nouvelle Vague dir. Richard Linklater 01:32:48 Black Bag dir. Steven Soderbergh 01:34:36 Cactus Pears dir. Rohan Kanawade 01:35:35 Seaside Serendipity dir. Satoko Yokohama 01:36:33 Sorry Baby dir. Eva Victor 01:37:58 Misericordia dir. Alain Guiraudie 01:39:06 Silent Friend dir. Ildikó Enyedi 01:41:20 Caught by the Tides dir. Jia Zhangke 01:42:48 Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk dir. Sepideh Farsi 01:44:51 My Sunshine dir. Hiroshi Okuyama 01:46:56 Superman dir. James Gunn 01:48:52 100 METERS dir. Kenji Iwaisawa 01:53:31 Reflection in a Dead Diamond dir. Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani 01:54:28 Afternoons of Solitude dir. Albert Serra 01:57:05 The Wedding Banquet dir. Andrew Ahn 01:57:19 Top 5 01:57:30 One Battle After Another dir. Paul Thomas Anderson 02:05:57 Resurrection dir. Bi Gan 02:07:51 Peter Hujar's Day dir. Ira Sachs 02:12:19 Christmas Eve in Miller's Point dir. Tyler Taormina 02:17:10 I'm Still Here dir. Walter Salles 02:19:14 28 Years Later dir. Danny Boyle 02:21:06 Dreams (Sex Love) dir. Dag Johan Haugerud 02:25:37 Resurrection dir. Bi Gan 02:26:29 Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery dir. Rian Johnson 02:28:07 It Was Just an Accident dir. Jafar Panahi 02:32:05 Cloud dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa 02:33:32 Left-Handed Girl dir. Tsou Shih-Ching 02:37:29 One Battle After Another dir. Paul Thomas Anderson 02:40:04 Sinners dir. Ryan Coogler 02:45:41 Outro