This past year, I watched 174 films. That’s down from the 216 I watched in 2024. Since I started using Letterboxd, my number of movies logged has gone down each year. Unfortunately, with a degenerative illness, I’m leaving the house less and less to go to the movies. At home, I’m more apt to choose watching a television show over a feature-length film.
My most watched actor, Nicolas Cage, is no shock. He’s in my pantheon of actors that I’ll watch in pretty much anything. Others of that caliber include the entire Skarsgård family, Jason Statham, Parker Posey, Joel Edgerton, Laura Dern (and her parents), and Tom Hardy.
My most watched director, Makoto Shinkai, was a surprise. I had to look him up! Turns out that he directed the 2002 anime film, Voices of a Distant Star, which I watched at home with my husband. We watched two of Shinkai’s short films that were on the Blu-ray that we borrowed from the library. And ta-da: Three films made him the most popular director in our household!
The nanogenre is my favorite part of Letterboxd Year In Review.
As for my favorite films of 2025, that’ll be a work in progress for a few months. Like I said, I’ve been going out to the movies less because of my health, so there are loads of 2025 movies that I haven’t gotten to see yet. Visit my Favorite Films of 2025 list on Letterboxd for updates.
Here are my Favorite Films of 2025 as of January 2, 2026.
- Sinners
- Train Dreams
- Dust Bunny
- Weapons
- Bring Her Back
- Frankenstein
- Presence
- Wake Up Dead Man
- The Fantastic 4: First Steps
- The Life of Chuck
- Companion
- Mickey 17
- Every Time You Lose Your Mind: A Film About Failure
- Caught Stealing
- Thunderbolts*
- Novocaine
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