Every year, one of my personal goals is to see as many new movies in my local theater as possible. In 2025, while I didn’t quite break my personal best of 113, I did come close, seeing 110 movies on the big screen, which I like to think gives me a pretty strong insight into the year in movies.
Naturally, when you see more than 100 movies in theaters in just 12 months, you end up watching an awful lot of great films that don’t quite get the attention they deserve. And that’s why I want to highlight 10 films that I think deserve more attention. These aren’t necessarily the best movies I saw this year (you can read my best/worst movies of 2025 for that), but these are the titles that I’m super glad I didn’t miss, even if they didn’t light up the box office or trend on TikTok.
