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