I like movies! So much so that I saved my ticket stubs all year. I didn't see as maaaany movies in the theaters as someone who would care to save ticket stubs as you might expect, but I also watched a lot of movies at home and stuff. Here's what I saw in theaters, ranked from most enjoyed to least enjoyed.

#1 - Weapons. I absolutely loved this movie, having really enjoyed Barbarian I was expecting a wild ride and instead I got a really well crafted horror/thriller. In the end I gave this one the nod as #1 because of how hard I was grinning through the last 10 minutes.

#2 - One Battle After Another. I'm not an expect critic so if there's any flaws in this movie I couldn't tell you what they were. It's a serious movie but it's also very very funny. I also very much enjoy Leonardo DiCaprio in washed-up mode, as I also very much enjoyed him in Once Upon a Time In Hollywood a few years back.

#3 - Superman. James Gunn you madman you made a DCU movie that wasn't grimdark (despite someone being executed, geez). You reached back into the weirdos of the DC universe in a satisfying manner, triggering my fond remembrance of JLU on cartoon network, and the threats that Supes faced were believable. I liked it, I've never been a Superman liking skunko and I liked it. Also no one else thought it but I still think the energy that Lex Luthor was putting out was manic Tom Cruise energy. Activated Tom Cruise, the scary side of him. *shrugs* Just me I guess.

#4 - The Running Man. A true to book remake of a great and mean Richard Bachman story. I....accept the changes that were made to the end right up to the very very last shot. I laughed out loud every time Glen Powell made his sassy little bitch face straight to camera.

#5 - The Long Walk. Who would have thought we'd get TWO Richard Bachman stories within 2 months of one another? Another story I look back at fondly because I read it when I was the sameish age as the characters AND I was like, YOU CAN DO THIS IN A BOOK???? The movie itself is a bummmmmerrrr, it'll rip your guts out. But that's true to the source material. Great show.

#6 - Death of a Unicorn. I mean, obvious metaphor and cartoonish villains aside, it was fun. A silly little comedy horror.

#7 - The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie. Perfectly acceptable, would definitely recommend a watch to anyone that at all likes classic Loony Tunes.

#8 - The Naked Gun. My disappointment of the year. Critics were talking this up as "Finally, comedies are back! See this with a crowd, what a romp", so I did. I think I laughed once. Rename it "May I speak Frankly? Sorry I only understand English " The Movie.

#9 - Mickey 17. Man the high high hopes I had for this movie were not met either, but the expectations were purely my own. I ALSO ruined this movie for myself by seeing it in 4DX. I did not enjoy puffs of air down my neck with every gunshot and my chair practically bucking me and my soda out to simulate a bumpy road. It was so bad that I wasn't sure if I hated the movie itself or the time I had. Still not sure.

#10 - The Alto Knights. The poopoo peepee stinker of the year. A gangster movie so boring that the climatic scene is a big bbq cookout meeting that NY State Troopers stumble on to, and everyone scatters. Unclear if any of that even lead to arrests or anything. A guy 4 seats down was out cold snoring for 45 minutes and didn't miss a damn thing.


I saw Happy Gilmore 2 and Wake Up Dead Man, A Knives Out Mystery at home because they were never in theaters. I liked them both okay, each enjoyable in their own way. Each a solid B.

I have cable, like, with a box and everything, so periodically I would scroll through TCM a week out to catch things I might want to see and recorded them. TCM is actually pretty great. You get a little pre-movie talking to that contextualizes the film you're about to see, then they roll it uncut and commercial free. Here's a ranking of the classics I saw for the first time this year, in order of how much I liked them.
#1 - Dog Day Afternoon
#2 - The Great Escape
#3 - Kelly's Heros
#4 - Marathon Man
#5 - Almost Famous


That's it! I love movies! Hope that in 2026 I see more stuff and like more of what I see. Happy New Year yall