Comments on: The ten best movies of 2025 https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/31/the-10-best-movies-of-2025/ A blog about political change, among other things Fri, 02 Jan 2026 16:46:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/31/the-10-best-movies-of-2025/#comment-2835960 Fri, 02 Jan 2026 16:46:57 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146437#comment-2835960 Yes, A River Runs Through It (1992).
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There was a set of French films distributed in the United States around the same time, among them that were handsome. om mentions two. Two others were May Fools and Tatie Danielle, both from 1990.

]]> By: Cornhead https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/31/the-10-best-movies-of-2025/#comment-2835959 Fri, 02 Jan 2026 16:41:02 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146437#comment-2835959 In no particular order:
1. Oppenheimer.
2. Open Range.
3. Sophie’s Choice.
4. Parent Trap. (Lindsay Lohan edition).
5. It’s a Wonderful Life.
6. Frankenstein, Part II.
7. The Big Chill.
8. Inside Man.
9. Unforgiven.
10. Ford v. Ferrari.
11. Out of Africa.
12. The Natural.
13. The Godfather.
14. Body Heat.
15. Animal House.
16. A Perfect Murder.
17. Basic Instinct.
18. Romancing the Stone.

]]> By: Cappy https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/31/the-10-best-movies-of-2025/#comment-2835948 Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:55:00 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146437#comment-2835948 Where’s Animal House?

]]> By: Rufus T. Firefly https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/31/the-10-best-movies-of-2025/#comment-2835913 Fri, 02 Jan 2026 03:25:52 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146437#comment-2835913 neo wrote: “Star Wars … painful heights, and otherwise it bored me tremendously.”

Amen, Sister.

Several times I’ve had grown men complain to me about the sequels not being very good. When I point out the 1st (or 4th, or whatever stupid number it is in the stupid “canon”), also isn’t very good because George Lucas isn’t a good screenwriter, adult, grown men get upset with my take.

I don’t get it. It’s an extremely predictable 1940’s serial made for children, akin to “Flash Gordon,” but with groundbreaking special effects. Noteworthy for what Industrial Light and Magic did, but barely enough story to hold 90 minutes together, let alone tens of hours of sequels. Saw the first (or 7th, or whatever) in the theater in 1977(?), haven’t seen any of the rest.

]]> By: Bluegreen Kayak https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/31/the-10-best-movies-of-2025/#comment-2835908 Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:07:57 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146437#comment-2835908 “Airplane” from 1980. Have to watch it repeatedly just to catch all the jokes.

]]> By: RigelDog https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/31/the-10-best-movies-of-2025/#comment-2835874 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:21:37 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146437#comment-2835874 Going to this year’s movies, Weapons on Netflix was a surprisingly good horror movie, in the classic sense of not having a lot of gore but instead building horror and suspense with a creepy, creepy mystery. Good acting too.

]]> By: FOAF https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/31/the-10-best-movies-of-2025/#comment-2835867 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:09:02 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146437#comment-2835867 Glad to see a shout-out for “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”. Jimmy Stewart is one of my favorite actors but here he just had to play Jimmy Stewart, it was John Wayne who had the key tragic role of Tom Doniphon.

]]> By: FOAF https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/31/the-10-best-movies-of-2025/#comment-2835864 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:49:15 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146437#comment-2835864 Someone brought up Fred Astaire and musicals. All the Astaire-Ginger Rogers movies are excellent but the best IMO is Swing Time. Not least because of the fantastic Jerome Kern score that includes one of the best songs ever written, “The Way You Look Tonight”.

]]> By: Sennacherib https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/31/the-10-best-movies-of-2025/#comment-2835863 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:45:46 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146437#comment-2835863 #6 by the immortal Slim Pickens ( when he’s not having a good time in Paris.

]]> By: Sennacherib https://thenewneo.com/2025/12/31/the-10-best-movies-of-2025/#comment-2835861 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:41:50 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=146437#comment-2835861 om,
https://youtu.be/SkQ8_Xr_zVY?si=CpOTvr_Blp9bjn_z

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