What Is The Last Film You Watched? (2025 Films)

[crocodile 9,640]

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. I like Hunt/Cruise as an action star and team leader in a lighthearted heist movie...but not as a messianic figure. This is going bit too far. The film tries to be way too big for its concept, and suffers for it. Even by the series' own standards, there are moments when you cannot suspend your disbelief. The spectacular submarine sequence, as thrilling as it is, is a good example. There's a lot of stuff that feels like previous movies. The extended plane sequence, as mind blowing as it is, feels a bit like a repeat of Fallout in many beats (although upped a few notches). And there's tons and tons of exposition explaining same plot points over and over and over and over. In fact, the film feels like the two setpieces and a lot of talking. Very laboured at times. It's not exactly terrible but I enjoyed it less than the first one and the last four. Something doesn't quite add up this time.

 

Also, is it just me or has Cruise really aged between Dead Reckoning one and this? Man is still in great shape but somehow feels more tired here.

 

Karol

[A24 5,129]

 

7/10

[Jill Sandwich 11,064]

I couldn't stand it.

[A24 5,129]

That's why it's good.

[Jill Sandwich 11,064]

I just remember Cate Blanchett being really irritating as usual.

[Edmilson 12,261]

Wow. This is the dumbest thing a Hollywood studio did this year so far.

 

We’re all atune to the increasingly curated early responses to movies from distributors but this was beyond the pale for many.

 

Lionsgate yesterday sent out an email to Ballerina critics and reviewers in which it told them that “spoiler-free enthusiasm” on social media is allowed starting on May 22 but that “critical social sentiment & formal reviews are embargoed until” June 4.

 

Quite rightly, this bent many out of shape. That’s an unethical demand for most. Critics we spoke to hadn’t heard of an embargo edict going that far before. Many online were also perturbed.

 

https://deadline.com/2025/05/lionsgate-ballerina-embargoes-positive-negative-critics-1236409583/

[Jay 45,888]

yeah thats lame

[Tom Guernsey 3,836]

On 24/5/2025 at 8:08 PM, Edmilson said:

Wow. This is the dumbest thing a Hollywood studio did this year so far.

 

We’re all atune to the increasingly curated early responses to movies from distributors but this was beyond the pale for many.

 

Lionsgate yesterday sent out an email to Ballerina critics and reviewers in which it told them that “spoiler-free enthusiasm” on social media is allowed starting on May 22 but that “critical social sentiment & formal reviews are embargoed until” June 4.

 

Quite rightly, this bent many out of shape. That’s an unethical demand for most. Critics we spoke to hadn’t heard of an embargo edict going that far before. Many online were also perturbed.

 

https://deadline.com/2025/05/lionsgate-ballerina-embargoes-positive-negative-critics-1236409583/

“Tell us your film might be shit without telling us your film might be shit…”

[Sweeping Strings 3,393]

Ian McShane was recently on BBC's The One Show to promote Ballerina and said it would 'finally bring a female audience to this franchise'. 

I thought to myself 'Yes Ian, because women of course famously avoid anything with Keanu Reeves in it ... ' 

 

[Edmilson 12,261]

If anything it will bring even more men to see Ana de Armas kicking butt 

[Naïve Old Fart 12,923]

Ana de Armas could kick my butt, anytime 

Heck, I'd pay her to kick my butt.

[Yavar Moradi 4,368]

Saw the The Fountain of Youth on a plane flight this past Sunday. It was okay! The siblings at the heart of the film lacked chemistry and got tiresome, but the film had its moments of fun despite (to put it mildly) owing a great deal to Indiana Jones and some of its imitators. Eiza Gonzalez was the highlight of the film but the script was frankly just lackluster. A rare case of Guy Ritchie providing stylish direction for a script he apparently had nothing to do with.

My wife and I really enjoyed The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare in theater so we went in optimistic... and our reaction to the film was "meh". The score by Chris Benstead on the other hand fared a lot better and had a few real highlights, despite not being on the level of The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Recommended for fans of the composer or this collaboration, as long as you temper your expectations and don't go in prepared for another modern Morricone-channelling masterpiece.

Yavar

[Sweeping Strings 3,393]

Mission : Impossible : The Final Reckoning - I thought this franchise finale 'stuck the landing' rather well ... a runtime of 2 hours 50 minutes, but I was never bored. It's maybe not as 'actiony' as other MI flicks but plenty of high-stakes sweaty-palmed tension compensates (and the standout biplane chase action sequence is worth the admission price alone anyway, with Cruise again performing stunts that make one concede that he's got balls of steel).
 

Spoiler

And (unlike the wrong-headed ending of NTTD) ... Ethan Hunt gets to save the world, but survive in the process.

 

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 12,221]

Who is Ethan Hunt? After 8 films?

 

I know who James Bond is.

[Edmilson 12,261]

Mickey 17

 

 

You gotta respect Bong Joon-Ho. He took $120 million of a dumb Hollywood studio and hired Hollywood artists to make a movie that doesn't attempt to "hollywood-ize" his style, on the contrary: it's a Bong movie from start to finish. It may be why it flopped at the box office, his style may work for arthouse crowds who watched Parasite but not so much when they expect a fun sci-fi comedy starring Edward Cullen Batman.

 

Anyway, the movie is good and the social satire is biting. But the characters could've been better fleshed out IMHO. For example, Pattison's girlfriend in the movie sometimes seems like a sex-addicted individual, others like a badass security officer and then a diplomatic leader. Of course a person can be all of that in real life, but in movies these tonal changes should be more well handled. Also, parts of it reminded me of Avatar (the James Cameron version, not the cartoon).

 

Still, it's pretty good.

 

8/10.

 

By the way, is it just me or did Ruffalo's visual in the climax of the movie was an intentional reference to Edward James Olmos as William Adama in the BSG remake?

[Quintus 6,354]

I watched Sinners tonight, as I always look for a good vampire film. I'd heard this was one.

 

Bloody thing takes aaages to get going and I had my doubts for upwards of thirty minutes; being mildly bored was one thing but I also quite struggled to tune into the 1930s black guy dialogue.

 

...Then damn, I felt it by the end. The payoff delivered, and I had shivers when the credits finally rolled. That was a beautiful sensation to have. Is this the first soul vampire flick? I think it must be.

[Jay 45,888]

In case you didn't know, there are 2 bonus scenes after the credits begin rolling, one of which is supposedly incredibly important to the story

[tomsmoviemadness 4,786]

It is. It's basically the true ending of the film. It's a fantastic scene!!!

[Edmilson 12,261]

Predator: Killer of Killers

 

I thought it was a lot of fun. The animation is nice (although in that Spider-Verse/Arcane style that is all the rage nowadays), action scenes are incredible and very gory. 

 

I was just disappointed by the score. Too much of it is in the modern action style, with horns BWAAAMS and electronic manipulation to make it sound like it was composed for a rave rather than a movie. Wallfisch can do a lot better than that, as evidenced by the few moments where he lets the orchestra and choir shine.

[Jay 45,888]

 

Companion

 

This movie is fun.  It's basically a Black Mirror story expanded to a feature film (though only a relatively scant 97 minutes), meaning it takes a technology and posits what are some of the ways it can be used for bad things.  And things get good and bloody here, which was all fun.  Jack Quaid has really taken his The Boys success and sprung into a fun film career, and he's perfectly cast here having to be innocent at times and, well, not innocent at others.  Yellowjackets' Sophie Thatcher does a really good job as the titular companion; The whole movie wouldn't have worked without someone who can do the emotional and cold aspects of her character well, and he definitely does.  And What We Do In The Shadows' Harvey Guilen is a funny side character that keeps the movie popping along as well.  The story has some nice twists and turns, so its best to not watch the trailer which gives away too much

 

It's on Max

[crocodile 9,640]

Ballerina. It wasn't terribly good but wasn't the worst either. The first third doesn't seem like it's going anywhere at all. Once it gets going, there are some good and inventive action sequences, as expected, and that is what makes it improve. But spark is missing somehow. Ana de Armas is watchable on screen but, perhaps, four movies in this world were enough.

 

Karol

[Jay 45,888]

 

Summer of 69

 

Jillian Bell's directorial debut is pretty good, with some really funny moments throughout.  Unfortunately, a lot of the movie is saddled with advancing the plot and they didn't find a way to infuse comedy into these stretches, so its not quite as good as it really ought to have been.

 

The plot involves a virgin high school senior (Sam Morelos) who has a crush on a classmate, and hears that his favorite thing to do with girls is 69.  So she tracks down a stripper (SNL's Chloe Fineman) to give her lessons, and comedy and life lessons ensue.  A lot of scenes were stolen by the great Paula Pell as the strip club owner (and still dancer at 60).  Jillian Bell has a pretty funny cameo in a sex shop, which is one of the places where a series of dream sequences pop into the movie, which never felt quite as earned as they do in a lot of tv series that do similar things for some reason.  Charlie Day gives about the only performance I didn't like in the movie as a sleazy businessman who wants to buy the strip club, spurring Chloe Fineman's character to want to buy it instead.  There's almost too many storylines in here, but it was funny often enough to make it worthwhile.

 

It's on Hulu

[Sweeping Strings 3,393]

I wonder has word reached Bryan Adams of its title. 

'That's NOT what I meant, dammit!' 

[Edmilson 12,261]

Presence

 

Directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by David Koepp, it tells a haunted house story... from the point of view of the ghost. Literally: the camera acts as the ghost and watches as a family slowly crumbles.

 

That is the best part of the movie actually. The ghost as a silent entity watching the many problems (psychological, financial, marital, raising teen kids who are always with a cellphone in hands, etc) that middle-class families are subjected to in this day and age. Made me think of an updated version of those 90s/2000s suburbia dramas (American Beauty, The Ice Storm, Little Children, In the Bedroom).

 

It gets less interesting when it starts to tend towards a more traditional horror movie (with the exception that you follow the ghost rather than its supposed victims) and even less when a villain appears late into the story... Still, a pretty good movie with great performances and a fresh take on two genres (middle-class drama and haunted house).

[A24 5,129]

I think I watched that but I don't remember anything about it. 

[A24 5,129]

 

Here's another movie in the series 'Not good but watchable'. And look how they altered Julianne Moore's face for the movie poster. She looks younger than Sydney Sweeney.

[GerateWohl 6,475]

On 03/06/2025 at 12:53 AM, Quintus said:

Is this the first soul vampire flick? I think it must be.

Well ,there is Blacula from 1972.

[Quintus 6,354]

Echo Valley sounds like Reddit: The Motion Picture 

[Sweeping Strings 3,393]

28 Years Later - Danny Boyle returns to direct the third instalment in the 'rage virus' zombie saga, this time focusing on an island community (connected to the quarantined English mainland by a causeway) who have managed to carve out a reasonable life for themselves ... but trouble is never far away.

Gripping, very visceral (there's stuff in this that would've maybe struggled to make it into an 18 certified movie back in the day, never mind the 15 rating that this has been given) beautifully shot at times, and despite the grimness not without some eventual humour and glimmers of hope. With Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jodie Comer and Ralph Fiennes.

[Matt C 595]

Superman

 

This is, for all intents and purposes, a Superman movie if it was made by Marvel Studios (including two pointless end credit scenes). So depending on how you feel about them (specifically James Gunn’s output), you will like it or hate it. Gunn manages to pack in a lot of plot and characters in 2 hours, yet still manages to keep Superman the main focus. 
 

Some of the Gunn humor doesn’t land (what worked in GOTG doesn’t work with Supes), but I found a lot to like about it. Krypto the Superdog is the scene stealer much like Baby Groot was. The cast including David Corenswet is well picked, especially Rachel Broshanan as Lois Lane. Nicholas Hoult isn’t as menacing as Kevin Spacey or suave like Clancy Brown but he’s still way better than Jesse Eisenberg.

Spoiler

I didn’t like how Supergirl came off like a drunken sorority girl dumping Krypto off on her cousin to babysit in her one scene.

The score does its job. Basically a generic Zimmer clone with quotes of Williams’ theme. Would’ve loved to have Silvestri or even Jackman do this, because it would’ve accentuated the movie’s positives. 

[Edmilson 12,261]

Babygirl

 

 

An erotic thriller about a powerful CEO, played by Nicole Kidman, who starts an affair with a younger intern, who seems to know exactly what she enjoys during sex.

 

It's a nice character study about how people disguise their lust and sexual fantasies with a mask of respectability but sooner or later their sexual drive will appear. 

 

However, it could've had better sex scenes... The ones in the movie aren't exactly outstanding or anything. Still, a nice companion to Michael Fassbender's Shame.

[Rachael Foley 10,042]

On 14/06/2025 at 6:18 AM, Sweeping Strings said:

I wonder has word reached Bryan Adams of its title. 

'That's NOT what I meant, dammit!' 

Bryan Adams says that's what it means actually.

[CinderTech 1,790]

[Sweeping Strings 3,393]

6 hours ago, Meredith McKay said:

Bryan Adams says that's what it means actually.

He was literally 9 years old during the summer of '69. The dirty little bastard! 

[crocodile 9,640]

Watched that new Superman. It's a bit of a schizophrenic one, isn't it? It sort of simultaneously riffs on Snyder's real world take while indulging in Silver Age craziness. Some people will also probably notice how often Supes gets beaten up here. Almost all the time. It's a very messy, and overcrowded, ride and I'm not sure if it is a good movie. But there's stuff to like about it. In good Gunn tradition, there is definitely heart in some of the material. His take on Supes is that of a genuine but naive guy. At times, he might be somewhat frustrating. It might not play for some people. I really like Brosnahan in this, she is a really good Lois Lane. She and Corenswet really have good chemistry on screen. Overall, I have no idea what to make of this. It feels like it should have been bit simpler to begin with. Most, if not all, right ingredients are in place. 

 

Karol

[A24 5,129]

6 hours ago, crocodile said:

 It feels like it should have been bit simpler to begin with.

 

And this coming from Nolan apostle n°1?!

[crocodile 9,640]

On 12/07/2025 at 5:39 AM, A24 said:

 

And this coming from Nolan apostle n°1?!

I know!

 

I didn't hate the movie. It does a lot of the stuff right. The cast is great and many elements work brilliantly. Most of these are actually character moments. There some genuinely heartfelt scenes that I really liked. But I am not so sure about the story/plot and how it juggles too many elements. And some tiny elements feel oddly out of place in a Superman movie (one or two REALLY don't belong in there). But the core of it is sound. Like I said, messy and sometimes inconsistent. But not terrible.

 

Oh and like MOS, the third act shenanigans are the weakest bit.

 

All considered, still the best since Superman II. 

 

Karol

[Edmilson 12,261]

Judging by this article, the movie is like a comic book brought to life, not just visually but also in terms of storytelling and pacing. I think this explains why it is getting so much positivity from comics fans but not impressing the cinephile crowd.

 

James Gunn's Superman has finally found the cure to superhero movie fatigue: just make them more like comics

[A24 5,129]

So cinephiles don't like movies like 300, Sin City or Watchmen?

 

I guess Drax is right then, I'm truly not a cinephile.

 

 

 

 

[Quintus 6,354]

8 hours ago, Edmilson said:

Judging by this article, the movie is like a comic book brought to life, not just visually

 

Except it's Tintin comics 

[Xander Harris 9,584]

6 hours ago, A24 said:

So cinephiles don't like movies like 300, Sin City or Watchmen?

 

I guess Drax is right then, I'm truly not a cinephile.

[Edmilson 12,261]

7 hours ago, A24 said:

So cinephiles don't like movies like 300, Sin City or Watchmen?

 

Does Martin Scorsese consider these movies as true cinema or just theme park rides?

[Xander Harris 9,584]

They’re simply content

[Edmilson 12,261]

2 hours ago, Quintus said:

 

Except it's Tintin comics 

Tintin comics are fun but I'm more of an Asterix fan actually.

[A24 5,129]

3 hours ago, Edmilson said:

Does Martin Scorsese consider these movies as true cinema or just theme park rides?

 

No idea, but even as a non-cinephile, I can definitely see the difference between these GN movies I mentioned and the Marvel movies Scorese was talking about.

[Jill Sandwich 11,064]

GN?

[mrbellamy 8,084]

good nice

[A24 5,129]

Graphic Novel movies. According to the specialists, comic books and graphic novels are not the same.

[crocodile 9,640]

17 minutes ago, A24 said:

Graphic Novel movies. According to the specialists, comic books and graphic novels are not the same.

Always makes me think of this. 😆

 

 

Karol 

 

 

[A24 5,129]

Yeah, but Micheal Moore hates everything.